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Bylaws update
August 26, 2025 by Beth Sitzler
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NATA Updates Bylaws

The NATA Board of Directors approved a series of bylaw updates during its Aug. 25 meeting. 

These updates are substantive changes, which were submitted to each of the districts’ annual business meetings after an initial board approval. Each bylaw then had to be approved by at least two-thirds of the NATA’s districts before being resubmitted to the board for final approval. After receiving final board approval, the new bylaws went into effect immediately.

September 2, 2015 by NATA Staff

Communication in the Secondary School Setting

Contributed by the NATA Secondary School Athletic Trainers' Committee

Communication is key in all levels of athletic training, but the secondary school setting presents unique communication challenges. Here are some tips for communicating with parents, coaches and physicians.

Communicating with Parents: Making Parents Allies
By Lori Johannessen, ATC, LAT
 

August 26, 2015 by NATA Staff

AT Spotlight: Whitney Rowley

In May, University of Pittsburgh athletic training student Whitney Rowley spent two weeks in Peru, where she worked with special needs children in the psychomotor room of the Clinica San Juan de Dios and volunteered with Peru for Life, a nonprofit that assists teen mothers. Her trip to the South American country has been detailed in the August/September NATA News. Learn more about this future athletic trainer below.  
 

August 26, 2015 by NATA Staff

AT Spotlight: Angela Sneed

Since becoming an athletic trainer, Angela Sneed, ATC, has found a place in motorsports, caring for pit crew members. While caring for these industrial athletes, who oftentimes work nonstop during the 38-week season, is challenging as well as rewarding – especially when someone who was previously hurt excels, said Sneed, who merged her company Advanced Athletic Training Solutions with OrthoCarolina in 2013.
 

August 26, 2015 by NATA Staff

A look inside the August/September NATA News

In the latest edition on NATA News, we take a look at the event-filled 2015 NATA Convention, which took place over three days in June in St. Louis. Throughout the 80-page August/September edition, you’ll find photographs and stories revisiting this exciting annual event.
 

August 24, 2015 by NATA Staff

District and State Funding Available For Safe Sports School Award

The Safe Sports School award is an NATA initiative to promote youth athlete safety, injury prevention, as well as athlete and parent education among secondary schools. District and state associations are showing their support by offering assistance to minimize the cost of applying for the award.
 
If your district or state is interested in starting a grant program, please contact Britni Adams in the government affairs department.
 
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August 21, 2015 by NATA Staff

Sports Medicine-Related Topics From A to Z, Part Two

By John Doherty, ATC, PT

Since my first appearance in The Times sports section, I have found there typically is more to discuss than space available. Last week’s effort, to mark this column’s 30th anniversary, was no different. Promising to review sports medicine-related topics from A to Z, I only made it to the letter M.

August 20, 2015 by NATA Staff

AT, SPL team up to increase awareness of vocal cord disorder

When an athlete has trouble breathing, pinpointing the exact cause can be a challenge. While ailments such as asthma are well known, others, including Vocal Cord Dysfunction-Exercise Induced Laryngeal Obstruction (VCD-EILO), are less recognized and harder to diagnose.
 

August 12, 2015 by NATA Staff

Sports Medicine Column Celebrates Thirty Years

By John Doherty, ATC, PT

 

 

When then-Times assistant sports editor Paul Mullaney approached me about writing this column early in the summer of 1985, I thought I could do a pretty good job of it — for a year or two. Then, I expected, the ideas would run out.

 

 

  Over the next 30 years, Mullaney ultimately became the managing editor of The Times before departing last year to become President of Bishop Noll Institute.    
August 6, 2015 by NATA Staff

Reducing Concussions in Soccer

By John Doherty, ATC, PT

 

 

The high school soccer season started yesterday in Indiana. A week from tomorrow, the boys will get started in Illinois. In the Land of Lincoln, the girls play in the spring. Having the two genders play in opposite seasons — as is done in the vast majority of states — is good for officiating and good for fields but that is another story for another day.

 

 

  Because, no matter the season, the way the game is played now is bad for everybody.