The Southern Coos Health Foundation and Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center’s seventh annual Men’s Health Evening will feature Fred Tedeschi, former head athletic trainer of the Chicago Bulls basketball team, as the main speaker.
Men’s Health Evening will be held from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, June 7, at the Bandon Community Center. The 2016 edition is titled Knees, “Elbows, and Joints: Your Health From the Perspective of an Athletic Trainer.” The cost is $10, which includes admission, dinner and dessert.
Tedeschi is currently the director of athletic training at Oregon State University. Before coming to Oregon, Tedeschi was the long-time head athletic trainer of the Chicago Bulls basketball team, training such NBA luminaries as Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman.
Tedeschi will speak on his extensive experience as the Bulls’ head athletic trainer and will offer a mixture of anecdotes and advice to attendees.
Dinner will feature Langlois Market hot dogs, homemade pie from The Spoon in Langlois and a beverage. Attendees will have the chance to compete against one another in a hoop shoot, purchase $1 bags of popcorn and watch highlights from the ongoing NBA Finals.
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Tedeschi received a Bachelor and Master of Arts in Physical Education-Sports Medicine track from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. in 1984. He has extensive experience in sports medicine, including a long tenure with the Chicago Bulls as the team’s head athletic trainer from 1998 to 2014. Previous to that, he was the head athletic trainer at the University of California, Berkeley from 1994 to 1998, head athletic trainer at Vanderbilt University from 1991 to 1994 and assistant athletic trainer of the San Francisco Forty Niners football team from 1986 to 1991.
Tedeschi is a two-time Joe O’Toole NBATA Athletic Trainer of the Year Award winner, in 2007 and 2013. He served as chairman of the National Basketball Athletic Trainers Association from 2005 to 2006 and as Executive Board Member from 2003 to 2008.