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Sally Nogle earns Tim Kerin Award

Add the Tim Kerin Award to the long list of recognition for Michigan State head athletic trainer Sally Nogle.

Nogle received the award, given to one individual each year for outstanding service as an athletic trainer, on Thursday in St. Louis at the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s national convention. It has been awarded in the name of Kerin, the late, longtime University of Tennessee trainer, since 1994. Kerin died suddenly from an aortic aneurysm in 1992.

“This is quite a professional honor, especially since I knew Tim Kerin,” Nogle said in a statement. “As a young professional, I looked up to Tim because he had established himself as a leader in this field. He had quite an impact on this profession.”

Also Thursday, MSU associate head athletic trainer Dave Carrier was inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame. Carrier is entering his 32nd season as the athletic trainer of the MSU hockey team.

Nogle was inducted into the NATA Hall of Fame in 2012. She received the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award in 2003 and the NATA Service Award in 1998.

Nogle also has received the Michigan Athletic Trainers’ Society Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award and the Michigan Athletic Trainers’ Society Hall of Fame Award. In 2006, she received the Jack Breslin Outstanding Staff Award for Michigan State University.

In 2008, Nogle was honored with the San Diego State University Robert J. Moore Distinguished Alumnus Award, and in 2012 she received the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association (GLATA) Outstanding Educator Award.

Nogle has been with MSU’s training staff since 1983 and was promoted MSU head athletic trainer and head football athletic trainer in 2013.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:                                                                 http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/sports/2015/06/25/msu-athletic-trainer-sally-nogle-earns-tim-kerin-award/29288719/

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JOAN MANN INDUCTED INTO KATS HALL OF FAME

People who do great work are usually the ones most surprised when they’re honored for it.

A lot of the time, they don’t really see all the great things they’re doing for others. They’re too busy keeping their head down and doing work. So when Joan Mann said she was surprised to find out she was being inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Trainers Society Hall of Fame last month, you have to believe her.

“I was never in such a shock in all my born days,” she said. “There are big-time people in this. A couple of National Athletic Association representatives and everything else. I was kind of surprised. It’s a big honor, it really is.”

But it’s an honor that is well-deserved, as anyone who has been treated by Mann could attest.

Mann, one of just 12 athletic trainers in the Hall and just the second woman, was the full-time athletic trainer for 21 years at Boyle County. She taught at the school for 33 years and taught for a total of 38 years before retiring in 2010. In addition to being the full-time trainer, Mann taught a sports medicine class.

She was still teaching at the high school when then-superintendent Tom Mills hired her as the first full-time athletic trainer in central Kentucky. Mann said she was encouraged to become a trainer by West Jessamine trainer Dean Geary and former Centre College athletic trainer Gary Wilkerson.

There were very few full-time athletic trainers at the time, so at age 40 Mann became a sort of trailblazer. It was definitely a challenge. But it was one she enjoyed, being able to help an injured athlete get back on the field.

“It was a challenge to figure out what was wrong with a kid, how to take care of them and get them well enough to where they could play a sport they loved,” she said. “That was as great a win you could have, seeing an athlete get back on the field safely to play, thus seeing the joy in their eyes as they were once again part of the victories.”

She also enjoyed some of the “weird” things she saw.

“I had the weirdest injuries,” said Mann, who jokes than former Boyle and Kentucky star Jacob Tamme owes her a percentage of his NFL money for her work with him in high school. “I’ve had a spleen injury, I’ve seen a punctured lung and one kids actually got kidney stones on the sidelines,” she said. “One kid got a temperature of 106 degrees, I got real lucky saving him.”

And she never sugar-coated the demands placed on an athletic trainer, demands most people probably do not realize.

“I told the kids in my class, if you don’t like athletics and don’t mind being the first one in and the last one to leave, you’re in the wrong field,” she said.

Mann still believes that every school should have a full-time trainer.

“They talk about not being able to afford one, but my thing is can you not afford to have one? I really believe that kid in Louisville (Max Gilpin in 2009) would not have died on the field because a trainer would have handled it differently,” she said.”Not that we’re perfect, we’re not, but we recognize things and we deal with it because coaches are divided. He wants to be a coach, he doesn’t want to be the first-aid responder.”

As great a trainer as she was, it was not the only thing Mann was successful at. A former basketball coach she was the Advocate-Messenger Girls Basketball Coach of the Year in 1982.

Mann also officiated softball, basketball and volleyball for more than 30 years. In 2002, she was named the KHSAA Outstanding Softball Official. And she still officiates volleyball matches, is a trainer for the Bluegrass State Games and even fills in at Boyle and Centre College when needed.

“I don’t want to be bored,” she said.

Mann also holds one more distinction, she’s the only woman in the Boyle County Football Hall of Fame, elected in 2008. She’s as proud of her five state champion football rings as anything.

“It was always my dream to win a state tournament in basketball,” she said. “That never happened, but thanks to Coach (Chuck) Smith, I got five rings.”

Mann said she is appreciative of everyone she worked with and for at Boyle, and loves seeing her former student trainers succeed. Mann said she had about 500 kids take her sports medicine class and had more than 300 student athletic trainer aides at Boyle.

“Four of my student assistants are now trainers; that is kind of fun too,” she said. “I’ve had a lot of great students. I have one that’s a physician’s assistant, nurses, physical therapists, one is a mortician, there’s a psychologist, several are teachers. The kids were awesome. I can’t say enough about my kids that took my class.”

Current Boyle trainer Jeremy Johnson, who worked under and then succeeded Mann, said she has had a “profound impact” on his career.

“The most important thing that I learned from her was how to be an athletic trainer. She taught me how to be caring and compassionate with patients. She also showed me how important it was for high school students to have a full time AT. I would not be a high school athletic trainer without Joan’s guidance,” he said. “Joan has done a wonderful job promoting the profession of athletic training.”

Of course Mann, said she would never have gotten to where she is if it were not for the all of the people she worked with over the years.

“God blessed me with so many great people in Boyle County, who made the job of caring for the young athletes so easy, from local doctors, school personnel, fellow teachers, personal friends, coaches, athletes, parents, and my family that I couldn’t possibly thank them all,” she said. “But there is one special group that I would like to personally thank and they are the approximately 200 student athletic training aides who helped me come rain or shine,” she said. “Without them the athletic training program would not have been as successful.”

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:                                                             http://www.centralkynews.com/amnews/sports/high_school/local-focus-former-boyle-athletic-trainer-joan-mann-inducted-into/article_19d2fd1a-da8f-54ce-bc40-51959c408232.html

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PENNSYLVANIA ATHLETIC TRAINERS RECEIVE AWARDS

The Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers Society (PATS) Annual Conference was held in Gettysburg at the Wyndham Hotel and Resorts from June 10-13. Over 400 attendees enjoyed the golf, exhibits and educational programming.

AJ Duffy, III (Widener University) and John Norwig (Pittsburg Steelers Football Club) were inducted into the Pennsylvania Athletic Training Hall of Fame. Roberta Simmons (Pennridge High School) received the PATS Distinguished Merit Award. Elizabeth Evarts (Central Mountain High School), Greg Janik (King’s College) and Kimberly Stoudt (Alvernia University) were given PATS Service Awards. The PATS Team Physician Awards were given to Dr. James Masterson, DO and Dr. Michael Rogal, MD.

The PATS five scholarships were awarded to: Allison Garner (King’s College) – Philip B Donley Scholarship; Thea Lucas (University of Pittsburgh) – PATS Inc. Scholarship; Rebecca Dubas (West Chester University) – NATA District 2 Joe Iezzi Scholarship; and Michael Thomas (University of Pittsburgh) – Richard M. Burkholder Scholarship; while Kelsey Rynkiewicz (King’s College) received the Cecilia Yost Scholarship Award.

The PATS Executive Board will see several changes including Jamie Mansell (Temple University) taking the reins from David Marchetti (King’s College) as Treasurer. Kathy Wright (Ursinus College) saw her second term end as Southeast Representative while Shelly Dicesaro (California University of PA) was re-elected as Southwest Representative after filling the position this past year due to an Executive Board vacancy.

The Keynote Moyer Lecture was presented by Dr. Freedman. The Undergraduate Original Research was won by Anthony Alimenti (Duquesne University). His title was “Occlusion Training Increases Strength and Hypertrophy in Collegiate Male Collision Sport Athletes: A Critically Appraised Topic”. There was a tie for best poster in Undergraduate Case Study category. Cody Lancellotti of King’s College and Kelsey White of Messiah College case study tied with their research titles “Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis in a 19 Year Old Collegiate Football Player” and “A Labral Tear and Full-Thickness Suprapinatus Tear in a Collegiate Wrestler” respectively. The Ninth Annual PATS Quiz Bowl was won by Messiah College (Marybeth Bondel, Mark Engle, and Kelsey White). The Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers’ Political Action Committee (PAT-PAC) also held a pint night social in which they “roasted” AJ Duffy in order to fundraise for the PAT-PAC.

Next year’s symposium will be held June 2-4, 2016 at the Holiday Inn Harrisburg/Hershey in Grantville, PA.

For more information regarding this topic or to schedule an interview with PATS President John Moyer LAT, ATC, please contact Linda Mazzoli MS, LAT, ATC, PATS Executive Director at patsexecutivedirector@gopats.org

The Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers’ Society, Inc. is a progressive organization of licensed health care professionals who work under the direction of a licensed physician. Our society continues to increase public awareness and education regarding Athletic Trainers and the Athletic Training profession while serving as the premier source of information for public safety, injury and illness prevention, early intervention, patient care, and healthcare delivery for the physically active in the Commonwealth.

“The Keystone to a Healthy and Physically Active Life”

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/07/prweb12840237.htm

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Lenoir-Rhyne Athletic Training Staff Honored

The South Atlantic Conference Athletic Trainers Committee has honored Lenoir-Rhyne University with the 2014-15 Athletic Training Staff Of The Year, conference officials announced today.

“Congratulations to (Head Athletic Trainer) Michael Flicker and the entire Lenoir-Rhyne athletic training staff for being honored with this award by their peers,” South Atlantic Conference Commissioner Patrick Britz added.

“All of the athletic trainers in the South Atlantic Conference put in countless hours and we are very appreciative of the dedication and passion all of them display on behalf of the health, safety and welfare of the nearly 4,000 student-athletes competing in our league.”

Flicker has been an athletic trainer at Lenoir Rhyne for 13 years and was promoted to Director of Athletic Training and Assistant Athletic Director in the summer of 2011.

The staff at Lenoir-Rhyne prides itself on providing the most current and comprehensive care available to all of its intercollegiate student-athletes. The Bears’ staff is also committed to providing the best care for their student-athletes.

Lenoir-Rhyne’s injury and rehab protocols are developed to help decrease athletic related injuries, improve injury recovery time, and combines strength, flexibility, endurance and sports specific functional activities.

“With such a prestigious group of athletic trainers in our league, it is an honor to be recognized as the South Atlantic Conference Athletic Training Staff of the Year by my peers,” said Flicker. “We all care deeply for the student-athletes that we serve and the award is an honor that means a great deal to our staff.”

Lenoir-Rhyne’s Athletic Training Staff consists of Flicker, Dr. Michael McGee, Luis Velez, Dr. Stephanie Stadden, Margaret Shreitah, Chelsea Pasukinis, Cooper Padgett and Sarah Cody. Lenoir-Rhyne wins the award for the sixth time in school history as well.

The award is voted on by the South Atlantic Conference Athletic Trainers Committee and is presented at the group’s annual summer meeting

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: http://www.lrbears.com/article.asp?articleID=3477