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Emrhein receives NATA Athletic Trainer Service Award

Article reposted from Litiz Record Express
Author: Litiz Record Express

Lititz’s Julie Ramsey Emrhein, MEd, LAT, ATC, has been selected as one of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s 2017 Athletic Trainer Service Award recipients. Emrhein is the supervisor of athletic training at Wellspan Health in York.

The Athletic Trainer Service Award recognizes NATA members for their contributions to the athletic training profession as a volunteer at the local and state levels. These recipients have been involved in professional associations, community organizations, grassroots public relations efforts and service as a volunteer athletic trainer.

“I’m just so humbled and honored to receive this prestigious award,” Emrhein said. “I was obviously very surprised … I’m just totally honored to serve my profession and to be recognized for all the years that I’ve dedicated my time.”

A 1979 graduate of Cocalico, Emrhein went on to earn a degree from Lock Haven University in 1983, then completed her MEd degree from the University of Virginia in 1984. Recently, Emrhein has been taking post graduate courses from The University of Medicine and Dentistry of N.J. toward a doctoral degree. A Certified Athletic Trainer since 1981, she has been practicing her craft for 35 years.

She was the athletic trainer at Dickinson College for 22 years. Over that span, she worked a few summer camps with the National Football League’s Washington Redskins, and then spent a full season with them during a sabbatical in 2002. At that time, she was the only female trainer in the NFL.

“What an experience that was,” Emrhein recalls. “That was an awesome experience.”

Currently, Emrhein is a clinical supervisor of athletic trainers in Adams and York counties, working with those in high schools and with the Atlantic League’s York Revolution.

“I’m in a role of totally just being a mentor and a supervisor to these young athletic trainers,” she said.

Her career has also taken Emrhein to the District, State and National levels, serving on committees and boards of directors. Emrhein’s involvement comes from a mindset she adopted dating back to her days in college.

“The program director at Lock Haven basically told us, ‘You need to give back. You have a profession of athletic training that gives so much to you that you need to serve and give back,’” she said. “It was instilled in us as students, so I started volunteering back to my profession the second I graduated.”

Candidates for the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s Athletic Trainer Service Award must have held the certified athletic trainer (ATC) credential, conferred by the Board of Certification, and have been an NATA member, both for at least 20 years.

“We are always excited to recognize the dedication, excellence, inspirational outlook and commitment of our honorees, and this year is no exception. These recipients serve as role models to their peers and represent some of the best of the best of the athletic training profession,” said NATA Honors and Awards Committee Chair Charlie Thompson, MS, ATC. “We know they will continue to contribute to their place of work and their community at large in ensuring quality of care and optimal health moving into the years ahead.”

The presentation will be made during NATA’s 68th Clinical Symposia and AT Expo in Houston, Texas on Wednesday, June 28.

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Julie Ramsey-Emrhein worked for the Washington Redskins

The top tier of professional sports has long been a man’s enterprise, a bastion of the macho. Especially the king of the jungle, the National Football League.

But women have made inroads. Maybe not wearing pads and helmets, but to the corporate side and, ever so slowly, to the game crew. The NFL hired line judge Sarah Thomas this spring as its first full-time on-field female official. And the Arizona Cardinals brought Jen Welter aboard this preseason as the first female coach in league history.

One area of the game that crossed the gender line a little sooner was the training room. In 2002, the Pittsburgh Steelers hired Ariko Iso to become the first full-time female athletic trainer in the league. She worked for the team until 2011, when she took on the role of head football athletic trainer at Oregon State University. But a year earlier, a Cocalico graduate who happened to be a woman made headlines for her preseason role with the Washington Redskins.

Day 221 of the LNP Sports 365 project rewinds to the summer of 2001, when Julie Ramsey-Emrhein stepped in to assist the Washington staff during training camp at Dickinson College. She taped ankles. Assessed injuries. Worked with players on their rehab assignments.

“I think you have to get their respect,” Ramsey-Emrhein told the Intelligencer Journal’s Kevin Freeman on her assignment. “Otherwise, it won’t work.”

At the time, Ramsey-Emrhein had been a certified athletic trainer and senior women’s administrator at Dickinson for 16 years, and had worked as Dickinson football’s primary trainer for since the 1993 season. With the NFL players, she simply went about her business as normal, just doing her job. It didn’t take long for the Redskins to see they had a complete pro pitching in.

“Julie is an outstanding athletic trainer,” Lamar “Bubba” Tyer, then the team’s 31-year veteran of a head trainer, told Freeman. “Julie is excellent with her skills and with evaluating injuries. How she treats players is equal to myself and my two full-time trainers.”

The Denver native’s time with the team had actually been in the works for a while. The Redskins had trained at Dickinson in 1993, and that’s when Ramsey-Emrhein first met Tyer. He recognized her talent, and the two kept in touch.

“Bubba had been telling me that I ought to work camp with him some year,” Ramsey-Emrhein told Freeman at the time. “But I was never sure if he was serious. I was all set to do it last season (the Redskins trained at their practice facility in Ashburn, Va.) but I got called to jury duty. I had planned to work the (2001) camp anyway, even if they hadn’t come back to Dickinson. When they came back, it couldn’t have been better.”

Tyer’s camp practice was typically to hire six or seven interns to help him deal with he normal wear and tear on players. The temporary staffers were usually college trainers from all over the country. But to that point, a woman had never been asked to step in.

“It’s a first for me, as the head trainer for the Washington Redskins, to have a woman work with us and we were honored to have Julie,” Tyer told Freeman that August. “She’s an exceptional athletic trainer, man or woman.”

To be fair, while the NFL hadn’t yet crossed the gender line for full-time trainers in 2001, it wasn’t at all unheard of at the college level and for athletics in general. Ramsey-Emrhein was not an anomaly. At that point, more than half the certified trainers in the country were women, so it stood to reason that NFL players, had to have dealt with a female trainer at some point.

“I was treated with total respect,” Ramsey-Emrhein told Freeman at the time. “They were totally professional. They knew that I was there to do a job.”

Tyer, of course, was plenty familiar with the days when the thought of a woman playing a role in camp was laughable. But, he noted, progress happens.

“Ki-Jana Carter has a leg injury and I looked over and there is Julie wrapping his leg up and getting him ready to go like there was nothing to it,” he told Freeman. “Women and athletics have evolved. It’s a lot different now and players accept it.”

Ramsey-Emrhein left Dickinson in 2008 after nearly 22 years, and after 4 1/2 years teaching at California University of Pennsylvania, she returned to Lancaster County. These days, she’s the supervisor of sports medicine and athletic training at WellSpan in Lititz.

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