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Photo of AT Expo Opening at NATA 2025
August 19, 2025 by Lydia Hicks
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Exploring the AT Expo

During the 76th NATA Clinical Symposia & AT Expo June 24-27 in Orlando, convention attendees connected with more than 245 exhibitors in the exhibit hall of the Orange County Convention Center. The AT Expo was an opportunity for ATs to browse from the largest showcase of products and services for the athletic training profession. Watch the convention photo recap video below for a look at this year’s AT Expo, and visit the NATA PhotoZone on SmugMug for more NATA 2025 photo highlights.

January 6, 2016 by NATA Staff

Your Own Sports Medicine Conference

by Dale Grooms, ATC

Have you ever thought of hosting your own Sports Medicine Conference? It can be a lot of work, but is well worth the effort. These local CEU events are an excellent opportunity to create low cost, yet effective, learning opportunities for your local athletic trainers and develop deeper professional relationships with them. These relationships are not only fostered within the athletic training community, but also enhance the relationships between other professional within the medical community.
 

December 21, 2015 by NATA Staff

Degree Transition Webinar Series, Lesson 1

The Executive Committee for Education has started a series of webinars to answer questions members raised regarding the degree transition. Here is the first video:  

Degree Transition Considerations and Programmatic Self-Assessment
 

December 21, 2015 by NATA Staff

Tommy John Handout

Spring will be here before you know it, and with it will comes baseball season. Because the sport consists of so many repetitive motions, overuse injuries are a risk, even for young athletes. To help you educate your athletes and community on this issue, NATA has created a Tommy John Handout (pdf), found on p. 46 of the January NATA News.

December 21, 2015 by NATA Staff

AT Spotlight: Adam Quigley


In the January NATA News, Adam Quigley, ATC, SCAT, a graduate student at the University of South Carolina, shared how an internship with the University of Arizona football team during his undergraduate studies opened his eyes to a world of possibility.     
December 11, 2015 by NATA Staff

Safe Sports School Award Honorees For November

The Safe Sports School Award recognizes secondary schools that take the crucial steps to keep their athletes free from injuries. The recipient list continued to grow in November with 22 additional schools honored. You can see the full list below. If you are interested in learning more and/or applying there is an information packet available that includes the award criteria and the award application and a separate FAQ.
December 7, 2015 by NATA Staff

ATs Win Research Award to Fund Air Force Project

Two University of the Incarnate Word athletic trainers, Dr. Shandra Esparza and Dr. Reid Fisher have successfully been awarded a Clinical Research Initiative (CRI) Intramural Research Award  to fund a project titled:  "Athletic Trainer Integration in U.S. Air Force Basic Training: Reducing Injury and Related Costs”. This is a 30 month, $970,000 project that will embed two certified athletic trainers with in an Air Force Squadron of 1,200 Trainee Airmen at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.
 

December 4, 2015 by NATA Staff

Training for Active Shooter Emergency

By Heather Harvey, MA, ATC
AB Miller High School, Redlands, California
NATA Young Professionals’ Committee
 
I’m sure everyone has heard about the mass shooting that occurred in San Bernardino, California. The Inland Regional Center, where the shootings took place, is about 15 minutes away from my workplace, and we have all had some connections with people who were either there or, sadly, lost their lives in the attack. A graduate of our school (a former basketball player) lost his father.
 
December 1, 2015 by NATA Staff

Dallas AT works with others to save referee’s life

As an athletic trainer for 44 years, Robert Ramos, MS, LAT, ATC, is used to staying on his toes and being ready for whatever may happen. These skills were put to the test Oct. 26 when he was working a Gateway Charter Academy home game in the Dallas area and a referee needed lifesaving assistance. 
 
Ramos, AT coordinator with Lakewood Orthopaedics, was at the Gateway vs. Wortham High School football game as part of his athletic training outreach duties, which he began in 2010 after he “retired.”