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Cedarville Sends Another Intern to the NFL

Article reposted from Cedarville University
Author: Michaela Carpenter

Cedarville University’s athletic training program was once again able to make an impact at the highest level of the profession. Through a recently completed internship with the Cincinnati Bengals, junior athletic training major Chris Brown was able to work alongside certified NFL athletic trainers and gain invaluable professional experience.

Brown, from Cedarville, Ohio, began his internship with the Bengals in May of 2016 and continued until the team completed its regular season schedule in January 2017. He was one of four interns, and the only junior in what is typically a senior internship. Brown is the second junior and the third student in recent years that Cedarville University has sent to an internship with the Bengals.

An NFL-level athletic training internship often leads to additional opportunities within the profession, as it did for 2015 athletic training graduate Kurt Gruenberg, who is now on staff at Cedarville as an assistant athletic trainer. After interning with the Bengals, Gruenberg was able to spend another season working with the Cleveland Browns.

As athletic training interns with the Bengals, Brown and Gruenberg assisted with first aid and management for the team’s practices and games, injury prevention and treatment and rehabilitation. Brown explained that people often misunderstand athletic training as a profession; it’s much more than just handing out water and taping ankles.

“A lot of athletic training is the things going on behind the scenes that people don’t see,” Brown said. “You get to have a relationship with the athletes and walk with them through the whole process, from when they get injured to when they’re able to get back on the field. I think that’s pretty neat.”

Located in southwest Ohio, Cedarville University is an accredited, Christ-centered, Baptist institution with an enrollment of 3,760 undergraduate, graduate, and online students in more than 100 areas of study. Founded in 1887, Cedarville is recognized nationally for its authentic Christian community, rigorous academic programs, strong graduation and retention rates, accredited professional and health science offerings, and leading student satisfaction ratings. For more information about the University, visit www.cedarville.edu.

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Browns Physician’s Show Support for NFL Athletic Trainer Program

Article reposted from Cleveland Browns
Author: Patrick Maks

Browns lead medical team physician Sean Cupp spent Friday at James F. Rhodes High School in an effort to highlight the NFL Foundation’s Athletic Trainer program.

In conjunction with the Cleveland Browns and University Hospitals, the program provides two certified athletic trainers at Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s Rhodes and John Hay high schools, whose football teams faced off this weekend. And Cupp and other Browns personnel were on site to recognize the grant and what it means.

“Athletic trainers are very important at our high school football games because they’re the first responders any time an athlete is injured,” Cupp said, “whether it’s a medical or orthopedic problem and they’re the first one to report to us as medical physicians what’s going on the sidelines.”

Beginning in 2014, the grant provided John Hay and Rhodes certified trainers in David Silverstein and Stacey Gainer as its staff, respectively.

Gainer and Silverstein will help provide yearround quality medical care on and off the field to the more than 18 sports programs and 600 youth competing in interscholastic athletics at the two high schools, which previously did not have the resources to retain ATC.

“I’ve said before this program is a godsend to me personally. I used to have to be athletic director, parent, doctor, nurse, trainer, everything all in one,” Rhodes athletic director Cheri Dzuro said. “And having Stacey here allows me to do the job I need to do and focus on that and knowing that the athletes are being taken care of … the kids definitely appreciate her, they’ve bonded with her.”

According to the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA), only approximately 50 percent of high school students nationwide have access to a full-time certified athletic trainer (ATC), who play an important role in keeping young athletes safe.

A recent study from the American Academy of Pediatrics showed that the presence of athletic trainers can have a significant impact on student-athlete health, resulting in lower injury rates, improved diagnosis and return-to-play decisions for concussion and other injuries, as well as fewer recurrent injuries. Access to ATCs is particularly challenging in low-income and rural communities.

The Browns and University Hospitals are dedicated to increasing player health and safety at the youth and high school levels. Through camps, clinics and other football-based initiatives, the team promotes healthy, social, emotional, intellectual and physical development of youth by enhancing opportunities for participation and education through our youth football platform.

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Cedarville athletic trainers making an impact in the NFL

Although Cedarville doesn’t have a football team, the university is having an impact in the NFL.

Currently, one current and one former student are serving internships as athletic trainers with the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals, respectively.

Kurt Gruenberg, who graduated from Cedarville in 2015 is a Seasonal Intern for the Browns, while Kyle Cherry is the Bengals Athletic Training Student Intern. The pair were re-united before the Bengals and the Browns played in Cleveland at FirstEnergy Stadium on Sunday, December 6.

Gruenberg said the athletic training program at Cedarville has opened doors for him.

“I think Cedarville definitely  prepared me in particular,” Gruenberg said. “I think we have a great staff that prepares us and trains us. Mike Weller specifically really helped me get in with the Bengals originally,  and now the Browns to get in and to succeed in the league.”

Cherry echoed the sentiment.

“Mike Weller and the staff were super influential in helping me and knew the process to get into the NFL,” Cherry said. “They helped me with my resume and contacts and all the professors there are very helpful. I think one of the things that separates Cedarville is the staff really cares and invests in the students and want you to be successful.”

Gruenberg started as a student intern with the Bengals in 2013 and then served as a training camp intern with the Browns in 2014. He was able to make an impression to be invited to be the season long intern in 2015.

“There’s definitely been doors opened up,” he said. “Being with two NFL teams in three consecutive years has boosted my resume and will jump start my career either in the NFL or at the college level.”

Both see the opportunity to be used by the Lord for ministry on the mission field of the National Football League.

“That’s one of the reasons why I’m excited to be in the league,” Gruenberg said. “It’s a very dark and very sinful place. These players have fame, fortune and money but they don’t have Christ and I can have one-on-one relationships, which open up doors and allows me to be able to share with them Christ and why I’m different.”

Cherry sees the same potential.

“I think that’s one of the reasons I’m excited that Cedarville now has two students in the league,” Cherry said. “There are a lot of dark places and to get to know some of these people and shine some light is important.”

Fred Greetham, a ’79 graduate of Cedarville, has covered the NFL and the Cleveland Browns for 26 years and is currently covering the team for The Orange & Brown Report (cle.scout.com) for Scout.com and is the publisher of the Wine & Gold Report (WineAndGoldReport.com) for Scout covering the NBA and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Greetham is in the Cedarville University Hall of Fame Class of 2001 and stills holds several records from his baseball career at CU.

Follow him on Twitter @FredGreetham

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
http://yellowjackets.cedarville.edu/news/2015/12/7/GEN_1207153928.aspx