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Windee Skrabanek Receives SWATA Award for Life Saving Efforts

Article reposted from tdtnews.com
Author:  MARIEL WILLIAMS

Windee Skrabanek was recently honored by the Southwest Athletic Trainers’ Association for saving the life of a Temple High School athlete last year.

Skrabanek, who teaches sports medicine at Temple High and heads up the student athletic training program, was one of three trainers to receive the 2017 Excellence in Athletic Training Award at the SWATA Honors & Awards Ceremony held in San Marcos in July.

In March 2016, Temple High School athlete De’Aveun Banks collapsed during training. Skrabanek kept him alive by doing CPR and administering electric shocks from an Automated External Defibrillator until an ambulance arrived.

Skrabanek said it was an honor to receive the award. She said she enjoyed being able to share experiences with other trainers who had faced similar crises at the San Marcos awards ceremony.

“It was really neat to be there with some of the other people,” Skrabanek said. “I knew one of the athletic trainers that was at Texas State that received the award as well. … It can be a traumatic thing, and (it helps) to be able to talk about it with somebody else that just went through it.”

The Excellence in Athletic Training Award is presented to athletic trainers who intervened in a situation where someone would most likely have died or experienced life-altering injuries without the trainer’s assistance.

Banks later learned that he has a congenital heart defect that caused him to go into cardiac arrest. After a long recovery, he still attends football practice and goes to every game, although his doctors will not allow him to play.

“I’m grateful that she saved me, and to all the people that were there,” Banks said.

Banks does not remember the sudden collapse or the first few weeks of recovery. After spending the night in Scott & White Medical Center-Temple, he was flown to Houston for further treatment, and it was several weeks before he fully regained consciousness. He will be a senior this coming school year.

“Receiving this award is a true honor, but the rewarding part is having the student still with us today,” Skrabanek said in a release. “Seeing that smiling face each day is a reminder of how precious life is.”

mwilliams@tdtnews.com

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Tony Ontiveros Receives Excellence in Athletic Training Award

Article reposted from Far West Athletic Trainers’ Association
Author: FWATA Public Relations Committee

The FWATA Public Relations Committee is pleased to announce the fall quarter award winner of the Excellence in Athletic Training Award. Each quarter, the Excellence in Athletic Training Award celebrates District 8 athletic trainers or athletic training student members who display an exceptional commitment to mentoring, professional development or enhancing the quality of health care.Tony Ontiveros, MA, ATC

This quarter’s winner is Tony Ontiveros, MA, ATC.  Tony is currently the Assistant Athletics Director/Sports Medicine at the University of California, Riverside.  He has been with the Highlanders since 2003.  Ontiveros spent several years providing care for USA’s elite athletes while working with the United States Olympic Sports Medicine program. He has traveled internationally working with the US National Field Hockey Team, the 1998 World Youth Games in Moscow, Russia, and the 1999 Pan Am Games. In 2000 he was selected to represent the United States as a member of the Paralympics Sports Medicine Staff in Sydney, Australia.  Ontiveros is also a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, the United States Olympic Sports Medicine Society and the National College Athletic Trainers Association. Tony has also served as a preceptor with the California Baptist Athletic Training curriculum program.

Tony was quoted as saying, “I am beyond grateful for this award.  I am fortunate to have the opportunity to cross paths with intelligent young professionals that aspire to be challenged and succeed in this wonderful profession.  It is because of these students and colleagues that I feel I am the benefactor of their “excellence in athletic training”.  I want to thank each and every athlete, student, and colleague that has allowed me to be a part of their professional development to even be considered for this award. With deepest appreciation, I thank you all.”

Please join us in congratulating Tony on winning the Excellence in Athletic Training Award!

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Tom Monagan Earns SWATA’s Excellence in AT Award

Article reposted from UT Dallas Athletics
Author: UT Dallas Athletics

UT Dallas Associate Director of Athletics and Head Athletic TrainerTom Monagan was honored last week at the annual meeting of the Southwest Athletic Trainers Association (SWATA) with the group’s Excellence in Athletic Training Award for an incident which occurred on the UTD campus last fall.

Monagan, who has served in his current capacity at UTD since 2010, was on the scene at Comet men’s soccer home game with Austin College on Sept. 15, 2015, when AC player Harroon Ismail went down after a collision with a UTD player.

“On behalf of the entire Austin College Athletics Department, including our men’s soccer coach Mark Hudson and the family of Harroon Ismail, I cannot thank you enough for your actions and efforts to take care of our injured player,” AC Director of Athletics David Norman stated in an e-mail to Monagan after the incident.

Upon examination of Harroon after the collision, Monagan believe that AC player had injured his spleen and was going in to shock. Despite EMS responders’ belief that Harroon’s injury was just an abdominal bruise, Monagan calmly and insistently explained the situation to the EMS and urged the responders to take Harroon to the hospital for a potential ruptured spleen.

Harroon and his father were transported by EMS to Richardson Methodist Hospital for his injury. After the game, Tom was talking with Hudson, and he informed Monagan that Harroon had not only lacerated his spleen but had been taken by “life-flight” to another hospital for emergency surgery.

“Tom’s actions made a significant impact on Harroon and I believe helped to save his life that night,” stated UTD Assistant Director of Athletics and Senior Woman Administration Angela Marin in her letter to SWATA nominating Moganan for the award.

She continued, “Not only that, his actions had a positive impact on that team, the coach, that parent, another University, and all who witnessed what happened that evening in September. I believe he epitomizes all that you want to see in an athletic trainer, and what we all hope is the great medical care all of our student-athletes receive each and every day, regardless of who they are or what team they play for.”

“Much is written about what is wrong with college athletics,” concluded Norman in his e-mail. “But your (Monagan’s) actions are a reason why I believe in what we all do.”