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To celebrate Pride Month, the NATA LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee, in conjunction with Gatorade Performance Partner, will host an NATA Timely Topics Series event titled, “The AT and Transgender and Nonbinary Inclusion in Sports,” from 2 to 3:30 p.m. CDT June 16.

During the Professional Football Athletic Trainers’ Society (PFATS) annual meeting and education program, held before the NFL Combine this March in Indianapolis, NATA Sports Science and Data Analytics Task Force Co-Chair Mark Coberley, MS, ATC, LAT, presented to the group about sports science, how it’s impacting and changing the athletic training profession and NATA’s related initiatives.

The NATA Quiz Bowl returns this year as an in-person event, now with 11 teams competing after the inclusion of the team from District Eleven. You can see the students who will be competing for each district below. Scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on June 30 at the convention, the Quiz Bowl is now in its thirteenth year. More than bragging rights will be on the line as the winning team receives $1,000 toward the school’s athletic training program or club. The second and third place teams will receive $500 and $250 respectively.

To commemorate Pride Month throughout June, the NATA Now blog will share a variety of topics to support our members’ efforts to provide compassionate and culturally competent patient care to all.
 

In 2022, NATA is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Title IX, which went into effect June 23, 1972. Starting during Women’s History Month in March leading up to the 73rd NATA Clinical Symposia & AT Expo in June, the NATA Now blog will highlight various legends of the profession and outline the impact Title IX had on them, their careers and the overall athletic training profession.

By Lorin Cartwright, MS, ATC, CAA, and Mitchell Anderson, AT, ATC

To commemorate Pride Month throughout June, the NATA Now blog will share a variety of topics to support our members’ efforts to provide compassionate and culturally competent patient care to all.
 

In honor of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, the NATA Now blog will highlight some of our Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders at the state, district and national levels throughout May.
 

For Roy Flores, MS, ATC, athletic training was initially an open door to the sports world.

By Kelsey Bains, MA, ATC, NATA ATs Care Commission

As we discussed in the previous blog, the way in which we, our colleagues, patients, friends or family metabolize a critical incident may differ not only from incident to incident, but from day to day.

There are many concepts that come into play when supporting someone in need. The key approach is to let go of preconceived ideas and provide space, in your support efforts, without judgment.

In honor of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, the NATA Now blog will highlight some of our Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders at the state, district and national levels throughout May.

Ever since her time as an athletic training student, Janet Lin Craft, MA, LAT, ATC, has volunteered and given back to the profession, serving at the state, district and national levels.

In 2019, the NATA Secondary School Athletic Trainers’ Committee released the Wellness Screening Guidelines for the Secondary School Athletic Trainer resource to help assist ATs in creating screening surveys that tracked student athlete mental health. Then, in 2020, Cari Wood, ATC, one of the creators of the guidelines, revamped the wellness survey she distributed to student athletes to include questions pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic.