Pin Collectors Meet at NATA 2025
An NATA 75th anniversary special event, hosted by the NATA Historical Commission, brought together pin collecting enthusiasts during the 76th NATA Clinical Symposia & AT Expo June 24-27 in Orlando.
More than 30 athletic trainers and athletic training students attended the NATA Pin Collectors' Meet and Greet, organized by Historical Commission member Jeff Stone, MEd, LAT, ATC, an NATA Hall of Fame Class of 2012 member, to exchange and trade pins and patches.
Overuse Injuries Infographic Handout
Approximately 50 percent of all sports-related injuries sustained by athletes ages 6 to 18 are related to overuse. Overuse can cause general stress, inflammation and tendinitis. Because the symptoms of overuse injuries tend to be gradual, it often takes longer for an athlete to be diagnosed and treated. To help you educate members of your community on overuse injuries and how they can be prevented, NATA has created an overuse injuries handout (pdf) for you to download. The handout was featured on p.
Heat Safety Pledge
The April NATA News featured an article on the Heat Safety Pledge (p. 28), a program created in 2014 by the Korey Stringer Institute in partnership with Mission Athletecare to encourage high schools to follow heat safety best practices.
The pledge is an application, which is reviewed by KSI and consists of six pillars:
Announcing the 15 Winners of the $50,000 AT Initiative Grants
During today's Youth Sports Safety Summit in Washington, DC, we joined with the NFL Foundation, Gatorade and the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society (PFATS) to announce the winners of the Athletic Trainer Initiative, a national grant contest to expand access to athletic trainers in underserved high schools and improve youth athlete safety. The fifteen winning schools each received $50,000 to develop athletic training programs that will provide nearly 5,000 student athletes with consistent access to this valuable resource.
Youth Sports Safety Summit to be Held During National Athletic Training Month
By John Doherty, ATC, PT
Perhaps it is appropriate that National Athletic Training Month (NATM) coincides with March Madness. Just when a team is on the verge of postseason success, that potential for “One Shining Moment” is seemingly shattered when a key player crashes to the court.
National Center for Drug Free Sport Extends Athletic Trainer Continuing Education Awards Deadline
The National Center for Drug Free Sport (Drug Free Sport®), the industry leader in drug education and testing within professional, collegiate and amateur athletics, is pleased to announce that the extension of its continuing education award deadline to Sunday, May 1. In honor of March being National Athletic Training Month (#NATM2016), Drug Free Sport wishes for as many eligible candidates as possible to be aware of the awards.
Help Promote NATA Foundation's #ThankAnAT Program to Community
Student Leadership Committee Holds NATM Video Contest
As part of National Athletic Training Month in March, the NATA Student Leadership Committee will once again hold its annual video contest.
Students will have the opportunity to promote the profession of athletic training by capturing the heart of the profession on film. This year, videos should be based on the 2016 NATM theme “A safer approach to work, life and sport.” The contest is open to any entry-level athletic training student. Late entries will not be eligible.
Contest Rules
Students: Are You Getting Out What You Are Putting In?
ACL Injury Handout
The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the most commonly injured ligaments in the knee. An ACL injury can occur in any sport, with 70 percent of ACL injuries being sustained during non-contact sports and 30 percent sustained during contact sports. To help you educate your athletes, parents and administration on ACL injury, NATA has created an ACL injury handout that was published in the March NATA News on p. 62.