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It’s been a fun day at the office today! We just said goodbye to 22 fun and energetic 8 th graders who visited our office as part of the NATA Job Shadow Day tradition. The students from Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr. Middle School in Dallas came to our NATA...

Much of the International Committee ’s responsibilities consist of determining global standards for athletic training education. In January, NATA Director of Member Services & Business Development John Honaman represented both the IC and the...

Last week (April 10-11) we hosted our 5 th Annual Youth Sports Safety Summit in Washington, D.C. As founding members of the Youth Sports Safety Alliance , NATA hosts this summit for other Alliance members and ATs each year as a way to have quality...

The response has already been amazing this year for the NATA Social Media Contest . We have seen lots of great photos (like the one in the teaser image by @SU_SportsMed ) from ATs posted with the hashtag #NATM2014. As a matter of fact, you can see...

Since trading in a spot on the sidelines as a "traditional" AT for a cubicle at the national office in Dallas, Michelle Vryhof, MA, ATC, has continued to keep busy, from compiling research and assisting with event planning to offering her fresh...

It was a great first weekend for National Athletic Training Month. Posts flooded social media using the hashtag #NATM2014. In just the first three days of the month, there were over 3,000 posts. Some of the posts included images, which also...

A team of 25 college athletes built schools, competed against foreign teams and raised awareness about athletic training during their spring break while many other college students partied on the beach or slept off mid-term exams.