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Student-athletes take on demands of athletic training program

One of the main priority of a student is balancing academics with extracurricular activities, but for some student-athletes, that can be a bit more difficult.

Athletic training is one of the most time-consuming bachelor’s degree programs at Ithaca College based on the students’ heavy workload. Participating in a varsity sport also requires an immense amount of time and dedication. Roughly 250 students out of approximately 7,000 undergraduates on campus embrace the challenge of doing both.

Because of the challenge, the college is part of a handful of athletic training programs in New York state to allow students to also participate in intercollegiate athletics. Four out of the 10 schools in New York state that have athletic training programs, including Alfred University, Marist College and Hofstra University, allow AT majors to play a varsity sport while in their program.

Majoring in athletic training at the college requires more than the hours spent in a classroom. In the second year of the major, students begin clinical education, which is only available on campus. Students work hands-on with one of the 25 intercollegiate sports teams in order to receive credit for their clinical education. Later, juniors and seniors are assigned to either on- or off-campus clinical rotations twice per year, and a minimum of 780 hours are required to graduate.

Athletic training majors who are also varsity athletes have to put in double the time and commitment. For intercollegiate athletes, practices are held every day during their season, while off-season practices depend on the team and coach.

Paul Geisler, program director and associate professor of athletic training, said participating in both the athletic training program and a varsity sport is a major commitment, and the students are informed of the challenge prior to enrollment.

“We are very proud of the hard work our students put in and that includes athletes who successfully complete both parts — the AT curriculum and their sport,” Geisler said.

Senior Carrine Putnam, an athletic training major who is also on the women’s crew team, had to give up crew for the fall season in order to focus on her major requirements.

“It’s challenging because all my teammates are practicing together, and I have to find time to work out with another teammate so that I won’t be behind for the spring season,” Putnam said.

This fall, Putnam is working with the women’s soccer team before transferring to the swimming and diving team in the winter season. Her responsibilities include attending all of the team’s practices, home games and treatments. In the spring, Putnam will be given several Hill Center clinic hours a week, and she will also be back in one of the boats of the women’s crew team.

Putnam said she has figured out how to balance both obligations despite how much they consume her time.

“The only things I try to avoid are classes after 3 because that’s when I either have to go to my sport assignment or have crew practice,” she said.

Truman State University, a Division II school in Kirksville, Missouri, with a similar athletic training program, does not permit its students to participate in the NCAA while in the program.

According to the Truman State website, it is not possible to meet the demands of both desirable priorities and instead encourages co-curricular activities.

Brandy Schneider, the athletic training program director at Truman State, said the reasoning for Truman State’s decision is that their clinic hours overlap varsity sports practice hours, as well as games.

Thomas Anania, a junior on the wrestling team, said he is fortunate Ithaca College allows students to participate in both the athletic training program and a varsity sport considering the fact that few AT programs allow participation in the NCAA as an AT major.

Anania said the real challenge comes in when his sport is out of season, as he struggles to find a balance between his offseason training for the football team and his increased academic load.

“As a collegiate athlete, we’re able to participate during our traditional sports season. But when not in season, you’re expected to be doing all your AT duties like going to practice and working in the clinic,” Anania said. “So the only real conflict is with preseason and offseason, which, depending on the sport, you may not be able to go to all of your preseason and off-season workouts.”

Junior football player Christopher Durr is also an aspiring athletic trainer. He will begin his training with the swimming and diving team in the winter season after the Bomber’s football season concludes. Despite the long days between both programs, Durr said he has managed his time accordingly and does not think tackling both programs at once is extremely difficult.

“I stay on top of my work and schedule everything out so I know when work has to be done by and what tasks I need to get done,” Durr said. “The one thing that might be difficult is making sure I get the required hours for the major during the fall semester when I am in season because I do not work with a sport like fellow students.”

Instead, Durr finds himself spending extra time in the clinic while in season and willingly works other events when he has the day off.

Durr decided to come to the college primarily for the athletic training program, and it was only after he arrived that he decided to join the football team.

He currently works one hour in the Hill Center Clinic and two hours in the Hammond Health Center in order to meet his clinical education requirement. When his football season is over, Durr will be working with the swimming and diving teams until the men’s lacrosse team starts its preseason.

Durr said the college has provided a great Division III atmosphere for both the athletes and non-athletes.

“It is just a great place to play at and for,” he said. “It’s just an awesome experience to have everyone from all the different sports support you and say ‘We have got your back.’”

Durr said Geisler and other leaders in the program also are a huge support system for varsity athletes in the major.

“[They] do a great job of making sure that although I play on a team, my overall experiences and learning as an AT major does not drop or differ than that of a fellow non-athlete peer,” Durr said.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
https://theithacan.org/sports/student-athletes-take-on-demands-of-athletic-training-program/

 

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High Point students featured for research efforts

Three High Point University undergraduate students presented research at the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Clinical Symposia and Annual Meeting in St. Louis this summer. The meeting is the world’s largest gathering of certified athletic trainers.

Andrea Baellow, a 2015 graduate, senior Katherine Van Wert and junior Emma Zuk, all athletic training majors at HPU, shared original research they conducted under the mentorship of Dr. Yum Nguyen, assistant professor of athletic training.

Baellow received the NATA Research and Education Foundation Free Communication Undergraduate Presentation Award for her presentation, “Influence of Hip Strength and Range of Motion on Landing Kinematics Across Maturation Groups in Youth Athletes.” She has been a finalist for this award the past two years. Through her research, she determined the factors that increase the risk of an ACL injury are different in youth athletes and are dependent on their stage of maturation. These findings will help clinicians develop more specific and effective interventions to reduce the risk of ACL injuries in youth athletes.

Van Wert was named a finalist for the award for her presentation, “Influence of Static Lower Extremity Alignment on Lower Extremity Kinematics Across Functional Tasks.” Her findings show that hip flexibility is predictive of lower extremity motion across sport tasks. These findings will help future research understand the role of anatomy in lower extremity function and the most relevant factors that increase the risk of ACL injuries.

Zuk presented “Longitudinal Changes in Lower Extremity Strength and Range of Motion in Female Youth Soccer Players,” which describes how hip function changes as adolescent female soccer players increase in age. Her research showed changes in flexibility with age but no associated increase in strength over a three-year period, which may explain why adolescent female soccer players are at greatest risk of ACL injuries. Her findings are an important step toward developing effective interventions to reduce the risk of ACL injuries.

“The opportunity to present their research at a major conference has provided these students an educational opportunity that few undergraduate students get to experience,” says Nguyen. “They presented alongside the leading professionals conducting ACL research across the world. This opportunity allowed them, and High Point University, to be recognized nationally and internationally, and has provided the students with advanced knowledge to be highly competitive as they pursue future graduate studies.”

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:

Students Present Research at National Athletic Training Association Meeting

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Austin Texas High School Student Intern takes care of Rangers

The Friday night lights illuminate plenty of interesting sights. Throughout this high school football season, we’ll spotlight some of those who play an integral part in the action beyond the field.

What are your responsibilities on game day?

It depends on the job that you are assigned before the game, but normally you will need to make sure that the locker room is set up with the players’ bags and the field is set up with the trunks, the water cart, the bike, etc.

Why did you become a student trainer?

At first I thought it just looked fun, but when I got accepted into the program it became my passion and something I want to do for the rest of my life.

What is your favorite thing about being a student trainer?

Game day, rehabilitation (helping the athletes recover after an injury) — but game days the most.

What is the toughest thing about being a student trainer?

Getting up early and dealing with a lot of unique personalities.

How much time do you have to devote to your duties?

Honestly I would say athletic trainers devote a lot of time. … We have to go to two practices a week and one game a week. We also have to go to treatments on Saturdays if you worked the game that Friday.

Do you have time to cheer on the team during the game?

Of course, but you always have to control your emotions but also remember that the players feed off of your emotions.

Tell me a little about your team of student trainers.

 

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The word family pretty much sums it up. We fight and we cry sometimes, but at the end of the day, we always come back together like every family does.

What is your favorite memory as a student trainer?

I would have to say being the girls basketball athletic trainer and traveling with them throughout playoffs and to state and becoming a part of their family.

Tell me something about being a student trainer that Vista Ridge fans might not know.

There is a lot of work involved in being an athletic trainer. We aren’t just water girls or boys. The athletes really depend on us for several reasons, for example, when they get injured on the field, dehydrated during practice and when they need to be taped.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/sports/high-school-football/friday-night-sights-natalya-oliver-senior-vista-ri/nnjC2/

 

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Athletic training student a candidate for queen at Dakota Wesleyan University

Kelsey Newman of Columbus is a candidate for homecoming queen at Dakota Wesleyan University.

Newman is majoring in athletic training with a minor in psychology. She is a member of the Athletic Training Club, is a student ambassador and the athletics’ student representative in student senate.

She has also helped with Children’s Miracle Network, and played on the DWU softball team for two years. Following graduation, she plans to work as a professional athletic trainer in a college setting before applying for physician’s assistant school.

She is a Scotus Central Catholic School graduate and the daughter of Amy and Jordan Newman of Columbus.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
http://columbustelegram.com/news/local/youth-digest—-sept/article_b0a94321-b551-5000-bf53-0ac0b23a348e.html

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Athletic Training student accepts NFL internship

Alec Stahly offered prestigious seasonal NFL internship after graduation.

This August, Pioneer Alec Stahly—a current athletic training major—completed a five-week internship with the Kansas City Chiefs at the NFL’s summer training camp in St. Joseph, Missouri. Impressed by his performance, the NFL offered Stahly a second internship with the Chiefs, only this time it will take place during the full 2016 football season. Stahly said he is humbled by the offer and plans to accept.

“Simply having the NFL on a resume sets you apart,” Stahly said. “The internship is highly sought after, and that’s just for the summer training camp. A full NFL season internship—now that’s even more prestigious.”

The NFL mandates that all interns participating in the full season obtain an Athletic Training Certification, as well as pass the National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certification Exam. Athletic training majors at MNU are required to pass both examinations before graduation, and Stahly is projected to complete his by 2016.

Stahly said he was first inspired to apply with the NFL after witnessing Brandon Harvey—also an athletic training major—find success as an intern with the San Francisco 49ers.  After applying with a number of teams, MNU clinical coordinator Jimmy Ntelekos—a former Chief’s employee—gave Stahly his recommendation.

Stahly also credits Brendon Powers, MNU director of sports medicine, for helping him land the position.

“Brendon was also a seasonal intern for the Chiefs,” Stahly said. “His recommendation helped tremendously.”

Stahly said his schedule during the internship was demanding. The student was required to be on the playing field 12 to 13 hours per day with no days off. His duties consisted primarily of identifying and reporting injuries on the field, attending to emergency equipment, as well as assisting medical staff with the rehabilitation of injured players. Due to his status as an uncertified intern, Stahly was not authorized to directly treat NFL players, but he said the opportunity for observation and assistance during incidents of injury provided him with valuable field experience.

One of the most prominent Chiefs players Stahly had the chance to work with is free safety Eric Berry. According to the Kansas City Star, Berry was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma—a type of cancer which infects the lymph nodes.  On July 28th—just eight months after his initial diagnosis—Berry publicly announced he was cancer free after a series of successful radiation and chemotherapies. Stahly said it was an honor not only to work with Berry, but also to watch him complete his first pre-season interception after beating cancer.

“To see someone overcome that kind of adversity and continue to play at such a level was really inspiring,” Stahly said. “Not only to me, but to the whole team.”

Stahly said that Berry’s bravery both on and off the field demonstrates why he chose to become an athletic training major.

“Sometimes the grind of getting someone through something like this is challenging,” Stahly said. “But the reward is when you see them go back out and continue to do what they love.”

Stahly is currently working as an intern with the Eagles high school football team at Olathe North. This latest experience is part of MNU’s mandatory offsite sports rotation for athletic training majors. Stahly said he works directly under the supervision of Wayne Harmon—the designated sports trainer from Olathe Medical Center who oversees ON’s athletic programs. Under Harmon’s supervision, Stahly is allowed a wider degree of participation in the treatment of players when compared to his internship with the Chiefs.

“The thing you have to keep in mind is, to their parents, these kids are still worth millions of dollars,” Stahly said. “It’s still a huge responsibility.’”

Christopher Crawford, assistant professor of athletic training at MNU, speaks highly of Stahly as both an individual and a student.

“Plain and simple, Alec rocks” Crawford said. “I believe that he has the potential to do incredible things. He is an outstanding athletic training student and an even better young man!”

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
http://www.mnu.edu/newsroom/article/pioneer-interns-with-kc-chiefs

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Kevin Williams interning with the San Francisco 49ers this summer

Kevin Williams isn’t a professional athlete, but professional athletes are seeking him out.

Williams, a Redlands native and Redlands East Valley graduate working to become an athletic trainer, has been working hard over the summer, currently nearing the end of his internship with the San Francisco 49ers for their slate of training camp and preseason games.

“I’ve always been involved in sports. I just love being around sports and the environment,” said Williams over the phone. “I wasn’t good enough to play in college but I still wanted to be around it.”

After his internship ends, Williams will start his second year in his master’s program at San Jose State. He also works as a graduate assistant at the Academy of Art University, working with all sports but primarily with men’s soccer and softball.

It’s at the Academy of Art where Williams got his opportunity with the 49ers. The university’s head athletic trainer Karmont Mak is still very close with the training staff after his internships with the 49ers.

“I am extremely proud of both Jess and Kevin on earning the summer internships with the 49ers,” Mak said in an article by the Academy of Art on Williams. “The opportunity to work at the highest level of athletics will allow them to gain valuable experience and help them continue to develop as athletic trainers.”

But working at the NFL level takes a lot of hard work.

Williams works an average of 80 to 83 hours a week, arriving for work at 6:30 a.m. for the first session of treatments and rehab for two hours. During player meetings, Williams and his fellow interns have tasks that range from restocking to maintenance in the training room. There is another treatment session during the team’s lunch before a two-hour practice session where a lot of taping is done beforehand, then treatment after practice.

Each intern (there are seven all together) is assigned his own unit during practice. Williams is working with the 49ers tight ends, making sure they stay hydrated and treat any injuries that might occur.

“What a great opportunity to be a part of the pro level of athletic training,” said Williams’ mother Wendy. “I think the NFL is the apex of sports in the U.S. It will have the best equipment and staff to learn from.”

“The 49ers have everything you would ever need or want,” said Williams. “I think the best thing about it is the size compared to what I’m used to. The treatment area is large enough to house everything.”

Wendy says the family plans to visit Williams for the 49ers final preseason game in early September to cheer him on.

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Illinois athletic trainers teach kids tricks of trade

Athletes at Niles West High School seek treatment for their injuries and tips on how to prevent them from two athletic trainers who, while fulfilling their day-to-day duties, are also educating and inspiring a cohort of high school students interested in following in their footsteps.
Laura Gorski said she was thrilled to land a job as an athletic trainer at Niles West so she could “focus primarily on the kids.” She said she was hired by the Skokie school in 2008 after serving as the head athletic trainer at Benedictine University in Lisle.

Dave Smetana, a former intern athletic trainer for the Chicago Cubs, began working at Niles West through a private company until he was offered a full-time position as a staff member of the school’s athletic department in 2012.

“I originally got started in this [field] just because of the fact that I was an athlete myself in high school and I got injured a lot and I was always in the training room,” he said.

Smetana said the athletic trainer at his high school was a mentor to him, someone he said he could look to for advice.

“He was the one who pushed me to pursue this,” he said. “He gave me guidance in college and recommendations on what I should do once I got out of grad school.”

Gorski said that while she didn’t have someone she could call a mentor, she was inspired to follow her chosen career path after receiving treatment in high school for a sports related injury.

While assisting injured student-athletes with rehabilitation across a spectrum of 26 different sports, setting up and managing sports equipment and taking it down when the games are over, Gorski and Smetana have welcomed students in all high school grades to observe them at work and learn what it means to be an athletic trainer at a high school.

Gorski said a student trainer program existed when she was first hired by Niles West, but as the lone full-time trainer at the school, it was too much for her to keep it going. When Smetana joined the team, he said it was important to him to restart what is now known as the high school’s Sports Medicine Career Club.

Between five and seven students participate in the club each sports season, he said. As part of the club, students have had the opportunity to shadow visiting doctors, receive certification in both CPR and first aid and assist Smetana and Gorski both in the training room and on the field.

Several Niles West graduates who participated in the club have gone on to pursue careers in athletic training, other areas of sports medicine and medicine in general, Smetana said.
A 17-year-old senior at Niles West and member of the club, Karolina Gacek, said that although she’s not an athlete, she’d like to someday become an athletic trainer and work with either college or high school aged students.

Smetana and Gorski explain to the club’s participants step-by-step the processes involved in treating student athletes with injuries, in addition to how the injuries are caused, she said.

Students involved in the club are often asked to provide their own input based on what they’ve learned, Gacek said.

“We are different than teachers because we don’t give them grades,” Gorski said. “But we hold them accountable in different ways.”

Though she came to the club already equipped with an interest in sports medicine, Gacek said her experience working with and learning from Smetana and Gorski has cemented her future ambitions.

“After I learned more about it, and I got the hang of the different things they do here, I am positive it’s the career choice for me,” she said.

Both Gorski and Smetana said inspiring and educating students like Gacek is one of the most fulfilling aspects of their job.

“They want to do what we do, and I think that’s awesome,” Gorski said.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/niles/news/ct-nhs-niles-west-trainers-tl-0827-20150824-story.html

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Ilinois High School students relish behind-the-scenes role as athletic trainers

Training and instinct come into play just as much for student athletic trainers as the athletes they assist at Lyons Township High School.

“We offer basic first aid to the athletes,” said La Grange senior Kaylah O’Dea, who is starting her third football season as a student trainer.

“When the boys get hurt, we’re the first ones they come to,” O’Dea said. “That’s an awesome responsibility, to be trusted that much.”

Students can become certified in basic first aid, professional rescue, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and taping techniques, said Bob Fichter, who teaches sports medicine and health and oversees the program.

“We discuss emergency response, spine boarding and concussion protocol,” Fichter said. “They know their roles, what they can and can’t do.”

What sets LT’s program apart from other high schools is the educational component and opportunity to learn from experienced peers, Fichter said. Twenty-seven returning and new students were involved in the fall sports season as of Aug. 17, the first day of school.

“Some schools might have two or three students volunteer to bring water and help on the sidelines, but to have a student athletic training club is different,” he said. “In two weeks, we’ll be doing an in-service training to give everyone who’s interested the chance to join.”

Peer leadership also is important to the program developed since 1976 under Rich Carey, Fichter said. Upperclassmen teach new students coming into the program.

Remaining calm and reassuring when a student is injured is crucial, said Western Springs senior Sarah Kate Weibel, starting her third year in the program.

“There was a student last year with a bone sticking out of his arm. I focused on calming him down,” Weibel recalled. “I said, ‘don’t look at it. Look at me.'”

O’Dea said she, too, tries to reduce an injured athlete’s stress.

“I don’t say anything drastic. I just talk about their day and keep them distracted until somebody comes to help,” she said.

Other duties are more mundane, like filling water bottles or ice baths and taping ankles, wrists, fingers, arches, knees, thumbs and shins, Weibel noted.

When asked whether she felt appreciated, Weibel said, “When the football players don’t have their water, they notice. Yeah, we’re appreciated.”

La Grange junior Juliana Halpin said having her arches taped by the student trainers definitely helps her run cross country for a second season.

Another cross country runner, Corey Kline, a La Grange Park junior, stopped in the training room for ice to recover from calf strain and cuts after a fall unrelated to running. He said he hopes to return to practice in another week or two.

“They’ve been very helpful,” Kline said. “I haven’t been in here too much, thankfully, but when I did, the experience has been good.”
Athletic Director John Grundke said the student trainers are integral to the success of the school’s athletic program. It’s helpful to have more students with training watching the athletes at practices and games who are able to assess a situation and call for help.

“They’re our first line of defense. They know all the athletes,” Grundke said. “We give each of them a radio so we get first responders there more quickly.”

Student trainers said they became involved for a variety of reasons.

“I like helping people with injuries. I’m an athlete, and I know how easy it is to get injured,” said Weibel, who plays soccer in the spring. “It’s also cool to be behind the scenes.”

O’Dea said she, too, likes being at the center of the action.

“I like having court side seats for games and being on the sidelines for football,” she said.

Willow Springs sophomore Julia Gilman said she joined halfway through the football season a year ago.

“I learned a lot about taping and injuries, and I was the only (student) trainer for most of the season during the winter for freshman boys basketball. I love being on the sidelines.”

Students are asked to commit to two of the three sports seasons and attend practices or games three days a week, Fichter said. Each student is assigned a particular sport, but will assist athletes at all levels, so that not just seniors are assigned to varsity players, he said.

“Students have the environment and resources to take this further if they want to, and some go on in sports medicine,” he said. “This program is for those who are interested in the health professions and for those who like helping people. We have so many avenues for students to learn.”

Kristine Vins, who graduated in 2006, is among students who took advantage of the program and now works with Fichter as a certified athletic trainer.

After working all three sports seasons for four years at LT, Vins graduated in the athletic trainer program from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne and began working at LT in 2011.

“I wanted to get into medicine and wasn’t sure in what capacity,” Vins said. “Then I really got into it and could see what we do here and never looked back.”

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/la-grange/news/ct-dlg-student-trainers-tl-0827-20150823-story.html

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A successful athletic training student program

Where there is, a sport there is bound to be injuries, and it is the responsibility of a sports trainer to handle them.

Encore sports trainer John Hammontre has been handling Hartselle sports since 2006, and coaches have been pleased with his work year in and year out. However, it has always been a hectic schedule, so the idea was brought to him to have student trainers. In 2013, he accepted.

“Technically I don’t work for Hartselle; I work for Encore,” Hammontre said, “but they kept asking me, so finally I said I would take a few.”

This program isn’t a class the students take where they sit in classrooms, learn and take tests. All the training the students do is hands-on as they help the professional trainers with taping, icing, wrapping and mending all the bumps and bruises the athletes take. The program started out in 2013 with four students, before it increased to six in 2014 The program now has nine students helping Hammontre.

So far the program has been considered to be very productive.

“It helps a lot,” Hammontre said. “There are more people to help me get the things done that I need, and they get to have hands-on experience.”

Head student trainer Matt McKissack has been doing it now for three years, which is longer than anybody else in the program, and he thinks the program was a fantastic idea.

“I love it,” McKissack  said. “Sports medicine is the career that I want to go into, so I love being able to get this early experience.”

While there are nine students in the program, only six will be handling football, which is considered to be the top priority for sports trainers because of its full contact nature. However, out of those six only one has done it before. There will be five new faces on the sidelines for the Tigers.

The young students are excited and nervous as they finish their first fall camp and prepare to make their first road trip. Head trainer John Hammontre thinks they can handle it.

“They handled their first two weeks well,” Hammontre said, “so they should be alright.”

The Hartselle Tigers will travel to Pinson valley Fri., Aug. 21, to take on the Indians at 7 p.m. and the student athletic trainers will be right on the sidelines with them

– See more at: http://www.hartselleenquirer.com/2015/08/18/student-trainer-program-successful/#sthash.lImAKbd9.dpuf

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:

Student trainer program successful

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Athletic Trainers, nutritionists help the Cougs stay healthy

The heat can be overwhelming, even if you’re just outside for just a minute. So imagine playing football in full pads, which is what the WSU Cougars are doing right now in triple digit heat in Lewiston, Idaho.

It takes a team just to make sure these guys stay hydrated and healthy and the athletic trainers and nutritionists take the hot days seriously because they know a dehydration injury could spell disaster down the road.

“Water, water, water, you know push it on the guys and make sure everyone gets hydrated,” WSU student trainer Damon Garnas.

Garnas said when you’re dealing with the heat it’s serious business.

“They need to be hydrated so they are moving properly, they feel good you know, they are not getting too hot and not getting worried about heat exhaustion and other heat illness and stuff like that,” he added.

Garnas and his fellow tea mates are constantly on the move keeping the Cougs quench for thirst satisfied.

“We have two or three students at each one just to make sure that we are really pushing the water on the guys, making sure every single guy you know, no matter from the star players to the last guy everyone gets a lot of water,” he said.

Lindsay Brown is the coordinator of sports nutrition and says hydration is so key they weigh the athletes before and after practice looking for excessive fluid loss.

“Some of them can lose up to 10 pounds in a practice, those are the bigger individuals but we want to prevent that we don’t want them to lose more than two percent of their body weight,” Brown said.

She says if they notice a drastic change they begin a dehydration regimen.

Just know that the depth of the the team isn’t limited to the running backs but a whole army on the sidelines making sure everyone is playing at their best.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
http://www.kxly.com/news/north-idaho-news/trainers-nutritionists-help-cougs-stay-healthy-in-triple-digit-heat/34683470