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Ohio Athletic Trainer Grillot on front line of safety

Article reposted from Bluebag Media
Author: Gaylen Blosser

Alyse Grillot has made a positive impact in her first year as Greenville’s Athletic Trainer.

“I’m here for those kids,” said Grillot. “I want to see them succeed and I want to see them play as much as possible.”

After a football season that kept many Green Wave players on the sideline, Grillot often had to make the call to rest a player for a week or more.

“I hate the fact that I had to hold a bunch of kids out of football this season,” Grillot said. “I always say I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but unfortunately that’s part of my job. It’s hard sometimes to have to tell a parent or a coach especially with football – the number of injuries.”

The Michigan native graduated from Ithica High School and attended Indiana’s Anderson University, graduating in 2012.

Grillot is married to Rob Grillot, a Versailles High School alum now teaching third grade at Bradford where he serves as the Railroaders varsity track and cross country coach.

Grillot began employment with Wayne HealthSports at Mississinawa Valley schools and transferred to Greenville in the summer of 2017.

Grillot has hit the ground running, while adjusting to sports offerings including boys/girls soccer and girls tennis not offered at MVHS. The Green Wave football program also has more athletes participating which means more helmet checks, more preseason evaluations and IMPACT testing.

“I really do like the kids,” Grillot said. “I think it is important to establish a relationship with them, that’s a trust factor. They come to me with injuries and they trust me to get them back to play or they trust me to say, if I tell them they cannot play it’s usually a pretty significant injury.”

“Wrestling and swimming will be new sports for Alyse to cover this winter,” said Jim Beyke, Director of Wayne HealthSports Rehab Services. “We also anticipate a busy spring with the completion of the track complex at GHS. Greenville can be challenging in the spring because baseball, softball, and track are spread apart at different locations. That is when we supplement coverage with our casual staff or pull one of our trainers in from a surrounding school.”

“The great thing is that all of our Athletic Trainers work very well together and help each other during busy times or with multiple events,” added Beyke.

“Jim (Beyke) is a great guy,” Grillot said. “This is the best administration I have ever had. The support that I have received from Jim has been incredible. There is communication there – there is support.”

“Alyse covered the Treaty City Invitational this fall which attracted 1400 runners from the Miami Valley,” Beyke stated. “Alyse is very organized and is a hard worker. She has enjoyed the challenge of covering our largest school. Alyse has been meeting a lot of new coaches and athletes. It takes time to develop relationships and the feedback has been very positive from coaches, athletes, and parents.”

“Greenville seems like a really good fit for me,” said Grillot. “I feel so much appreciation and that can be rare for an athletic trainer.”

With the 2017 football season now in the book, Grillot weighed in on the final game of the season – a cold night with a continual pouring rain and strong wind.

“It was awful Friday night,” said Grillot. “I couldn’t feel my feet, couldn’t feel my face and when I had to cut tape off of players and I couldn’t feel my hands…it puts a damper on my mood but I have to be there regardless of the weather, whether it’s snowing or sleeting sideways – I’ll be there for the kids.”

Grillot entered college not knowing what she wanted to do until she was in a freshman at Anderson and narrowed it down to Exercise Science or Athletic Training.

“It’s a lot of work but I wouldn’t change my job,” Grillot said of her choice of Athletic Trainer. “It’s so much fun – I get to watch sports and get paid for it. I like helping people and being compassionate. It’s pretty awesome.”

The Wayne HealthSports program includes Versailles, Greenville, Ansonia, Tri Village, Mississinawa Valley and Franklin Monroe schools.

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BRIAN CHENEY SERVES GREENVILLE STUDENT ATHLETES

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Brian Cheney, Greenville High School’s Athletic Trainer has made a positive impact in the health of numerous Green Wave athletes.

Born in Beaver Falls, NY, the Cedarville University Graduate attended Beaver River Central School with a graduating class of 72 students.

“I was born and raised there,” Cheney said of his New York home. “It’s a very small town; about 300 people in Lewis County, New York…about an hour and a half north of Syracuse, NY. It’s a big farming community, especially dairy farming.”

Cheney’s parents still reside in Beaver Falls where his father continues to teach ninth grade science at Beaver Central School.

After earning a four year Bachelor’s Degree in Athletic Training at Cedarville University, Cheney attended the University of West Alabama where he worked as a Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer in the university’s High School Outreach Program while obtaining his master’s degree.

In his third year at GHS, Cheney can be seen at most Wave sporting events at home and often on the road, although most of his work and long hours go unnoticed and often underappreciated.

Athletes returning to the court or playing field following an injury are a direct result of the many hours of labor behind the scene of our certified athletic trainers. Trainers work many hours throughout the days and weeks getting our athletes back to full 100 percent health.

Each sporting season brings varying injuries requiring Cheney to carry different supplies to sporting events.

“Overall the injury incidents rate is going to be lower for most of the winter sports,” said Cheney. “A lot of the injuries that are going to be most prevalent are a little bit different. You see a lot more ankle and sometimes knee injuries with sports like basketball.”

“You see a lot more upper body injuries with wrestling that carry upper body intensity, but it varies from season to season from sport to sport,” continued Cheney. “Things that one season brings may happen at a very high rate injury wise may happen at a very low rate the next two or three seasons. It is very hard to predict.”

Cheney has an office located at GHS which also serves as the athletic training room…”they are one in the same,” Cheney noted.

From his office/training room, Cheney juggles his time between paper work, injury prevention and rehabilitation.

“It varies from day to day, week to week and season to season,” Cheney said of his duties. “During some parts of the year it’s going to be a lot more injury prevention, some parts are going to be more rehabilitation from injuries that have occurred, some parts are going to be more…just getting the athletes back to play completely from injuries they sustained. It’s going to vary widely as far as the amount of paper work. There is the number of injuries to take care of on a daily basis. That’s one of those things that is hard to predict.”

Cheney works closely with Dusty Yingst, Greenville Athletic Director and the entire Green Wave coaching staff.
“Having Brian here…it’s amazing,” said Yingst. “He’s here 10, 12, 14 hours a day. Many times he comes in after school and is here until the last kid leaves most nights.”

“The parents and the kids are comfortable with Brian,” continued Yingst. “He has a good rapport with the parents, our student athletes and our coaches. They can lean on Brian. They trust Brian’s judgement. Nobody is here to micromanage Brian. He does his job and he does it very well. Our coaches and .myself take whatever his professional opinion is and we go with it. He does a fantastic job.”

“All the coaches have been very easy to work with,” Cheney said. “They are very respectful of my opinion of different injuries on different athletes. They are great about understanding if there is going to be a lengthy return to play period for a particular athlete. They understand that for some significant injuries you can’t get the athlete back to play within two or three days.”

“Our coaches are very good about keeping up to date with the process and keeping that athlete involved in whatever capacity they are able to until they are fully healed and ready to return to their sport,” added Cheney. “Overall I have been very fortunate to work with a lot of quality coaches in my time here.”

While working for GHS, Cheney is contracted through Wayne HealthSports, the primary provider of athletic training and medical services for GHS.

Wayne HealthSports is a division of the rehabilitation and sports medicine services offered by Wayne HealthCare.

Wayne HealthSports program is in its fifth year serving Darke County student athletes and now has sports medicine partnerships covering Versailles, Ansonia, Tri-Village, Mississinawa Valley and Greenville schools.

Kurt Moneysmith (Ansonia), Brian Cheney (Greenville), Jered Rush (Tri-Village), Taylor James (Versailles) and Alyse Miles (Mississinawa Valley) now serve as athletic trainers for five of the county’s eight schools.

“If there is a big tournament, a big cross country meet or multiple events going on at a school where maybe one of our athletic trainers on staff is having a light day and we need heavier coverage for a particular event at one school, we do a great job of helping each other out when we are able to as far as getting all the sports for our contracted schools taken care of with as much coverage as we possibly can,” Cheney said of the five area Wayne HealthSports Athletic Trainers.

Wayne HealthSports athletic trainers work closely with area orthopedic surgeons, family physicians, podiatrists, and other medical professionals in the area. The goal of the program is to provide high quality athletic training services that will enhance the medical care for our student athletes.

The five Darke County Athletic Trainers work directly under Jim Beyke, Director of Rehab Services at Wayne HealthCare.

“We started with Versailles and then we added Ansonia and Greenville the following year,” said Beyke. “We added Tri-Village last year and then this current school year we added Mississinawa Valley.”

“Brian Cheney has been a great addition to our staff,” Beyke added. “This is his third school year. That builds familiarity with the parents, the athletes and the coaches. Brian has developed a good system of assessing the athletes, treating the athletes and also the referral base right here with Orthopedic Associates. Athletes are taken care of very timely and get back into their sport as soon as we can.”

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Alabama Athletic Trainer Teaching the Profession

Article reposted from Alabama News.net
Author: Caitlyn Cline

The athletic trainer for Greenville Sports is finally getting some much needed help. Jason Peavy has been handling every cut, bruise, sprain, and everything in between for the past 15 years on the Greenville sidelines.

“I’d be down there evaluating an ankle, and then I hear, ‘hey Peavy Peavy, somebody’s down on the field!’ So then I have to drop what I’m doing there, go check on them,” he says. “And it’s just, it’s a process. Covering a 5-A high school in itself, by yourself is a big chore, okay? Really can’t do it alone. I’ve done it alone but it’s a job.”

But for the 2016-2017 season, he’s going to have some help. He’ll be teaching three Greenville High School girls, Seniors Jada McConico and Faith Robinson and Junior Anna Burt, the basics of athletic training. The girls will learn how to bandage rolled ankles and sprained wrists, how to handle minor cramping, and what to do when a player gets cut and can’t stop bleeding. All their extra hands will give Peavy a chance to handle the more serious injuries, should they happen.

“After that first game, I’m sitting out there, they’re sweating, they’re running, I mean, they worked a job,” he says. “And I told myself, ‘these girls, they won’t be back.’ And then lo and behold, Monday morning they were back at practice.”

The girls are extremely thankful for this opportunity. They are getting a chance most high school students wouldn’t: the chance to test drive their future careers.

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The girls also help fill coolers to keep the players hydrated.

“I haven’t had anyone to talk to me about it that’s actually worked in the field,” says McConico. “And being that he has worked in the field, he can give me the good, the bad, and the ugly about it. So to me it has helped a lot.”

“Going to the practice field after school and watching, seeing what he does for a living,” adds Robinson. “That’s very inspiring and it let’s me know what is consisted of me in the job.”

“Thank you Mr. Peavy for letting going out of your way and letting us girls… Help you out with everything,” says Burt.

Peavy will train the girls through football, baseball, and basketball seasons. That way they will get a chance to experience different types of sports injuries. The girls are the first class for Peavy, but he’s hoping to have many more in the future.