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Moore to Receive MAATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award

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Author: Washington College Athletics

Washington College Director of Athletics Thad Moore, who previously served as the school’s Head Athletic Trainer, will be presented with the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award by the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Trainers Association (MAATA) at that organization’s annual symposium May 19th in Ocean City, Md.

Moore, who still assists as needed with the College’s athletic training efforts and works as an ATC Spotter for the NFL at M&T Bank Stadium, has a long history of service in professional organizations in the field. He served six years as President of the Maryland Athletic Trainers Association (MATA) and is in his 14th year as chair of MATA’s Political Action Committee. He is also currently a member of MATA’s Legislative Committee after serving nine years as that committee’s chair. At the district level, he spent six years as a member of MAATA’s District Council.

Moore was part of a core group of athletic trainers that obtained licensure for athletic trainers in the state of Maryland in 2009. As president, he reinstated the state symposium in 2005 and it is still active today. He also helped create the MATA Hall of Fame, helped organize the honors and awards process, and created the first statewide email group to better communicate with members.

On behalf of MATA, Moore provided athletic training coverage for various state championship events from 2004-2012. He also continues to help provide coverage for the annual Special Olympics of Maryland Unified Sports Bocce Ball Championship at Washington College.

The MAATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award is the latest of a growing number of honors for Moore. He received the MATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award in 2012 and a Service Award from MAATA a year later. In 2014, he was named the Division III Athletic Trainer of the Year by the College/University Athletic Trainers’ Committee (CUATC) of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) and received a NATA Service Award. In February of that same year, he was one of four recipients of the College’s annual Presidential Distinguished Service Awards.

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Amanda Benson Receives Most Distinguished Award from SEATA

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Author: Observer

Dunkirk native Dr. Amanda Benson received the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award from the Southeast Athletic Trainers Association (SEATA).

This award is designed to recognize and honor those who have served and demonstrated outstanding and unusual service to SEATA and the profession of athletic training.

Benson is the Assistant Program Director for Athletic Training at LSU. She entered LSU in 2015 as the Assistant Program Director and Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the School of Kinesiology. Prior to her arrival at LSU, Dr. Benson worked at Troy University where she served in various capacities from 2003-2014 including the clinical coordinator, department chair and program director for athletic training.

In addition to her duties as the Assistant Program Director at LSU, Benson is an active volunteer to the profession of athletic training. She currently serves on the National Research and Education Foundation Scholarship Committee, is a Review Team member and site visitor for the Commission on Accreditation for Athletic Training Education (CAATE) and has worked with USA Tae Kwon Do. She has earned various accolades throughout her career including: the Ingalls Award, which is given to the most outstanding teacher at Troy University, the College and University Athletic Training Award for the State of Alabama, the SEATA Education/Administration award, and Phi Kappa Phi Scholars Award.

The Southeast Athletic Trainers’ Association (SEATA) is District IX of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association. It is a not-for-profit organization dealing with the concerns of its members and the profession of athletic training as a whole.

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M. Susan Guyer of Springfield College to Take Home Top Honors From NATA

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Author: The Republican Business Desk

Springfield College Exercise Science and Sport Studies Chair M. Sue Guyer will be awarded both the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award and the Gail Weldon Award of Excellence during the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) annual conference in Baltimore, Md. June 22-25.
The Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer award recognizes NATA members who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to leadership, volunteer service, advocacy, and distinguished professional activities as an athletic trainer. Currently, Guyer serves as the NATA District 1 secretary and the vice president for governance for the NATA Research and Education Foundation (REF). She also has held positions of public relations chair and president of the Athletic Training Association of Massachusetts.

“Dr. Sue Guyer is truly a gifted and talented teacher, mentor, leader, and serves as an amazing role model to women who would like to enter the profession of athletic training,” said Springfield College School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Dean Tracey Matthews. “Her passion and deep commitment for her discipline is unprecedented.”

The Gail Weldon Award of Excellence recognizes one athletic trainer each year who has displayed an exceptional commitment to mentoring, professional development, and a balanced life for female athletic trainers or offered significant contributions to improve the health care of women.
“We are very lucky to have such an amazing role model, faculty, and leader in athletic training at Springfield College,” added Matthews. “She continues to elevate the profession everyday. I can’t think of another person who is so deserving of these awards from the NATA.”
Since arriving at Springfield College in 2001, Guyer has taught courses in prevention of athletic injuries, research methods and education, athletic injury rehabilitation and therapeutic exercise, and human anatomy.
Guyer has been invited to speak internationally on the prevention of athletic injuries and concussions in China and at the European Society of Athletic Training and Therapy Conference in Jerzmanowice, Poland.
Guyer also has presented at the Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association and the National Athletic Trainers’ Association annual meetings as the NATA Educators’ Conference on issues relating to teaching and learning. Guyer is a manuscript reviewer for Athletic Therapy Today Journal and the Journal of Athletic Training.

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Cooper Receives The NATAs Most Distinguished Award

Former Greenville High athlete Larry Cooper of Penn Trafford High School has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the National Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award.

Given by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, the award will be presented during the organization’s annual clinical symposium this summer. Cooper is one of only 15 members to be selected to receive the award this year.

NATA’s second highest award recognizes members who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to leadership, volunteer service, advocacy and distinguished professional activities as an athletic trainer. The MDAT exclusively recognizes NATA members who have been involved in service and leadership activities at the national and district level and have been active members for more than 20 years.

Throughout his career, Cooper has been actively involved within the athletic training profession at the state, district and national levels. He currently serves as the Chair of the National Athletic Trainers Association Secondary School Athletic Trainer Committee and has also served the association as a District 2 representative of the NATA SSATC.

Cooper has been very active at the state level holding various positions within the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers Society including serving on the board of directors, parliamentarian, membership chair and the secondary school committee chair and long range planning committee.

Cooper has also served as a speaker and presenter at numerous state, district, and national conferences and has been the author or contributing author of numerous nationally published articles, position statements and best practices documents.

Cooper, son of Robert and Jo-Anne Cooper, is a native of Greenville and a 1983 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. He has been the head athletic trainer at Penn Trafford High School since 1991. In addition, he teaches sports medicine, health and physical education.

Prior to coming to Penn Trafford, Cooper was the head athletic trainer at Washington Lee and Wakefield high schools in Arlington, Va., from 1983-1991.

He currently resides in Harrison City, Pa., with his wife Lisa. They have three daughters, Sara, Molly and Delaney.

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Beckett wins most distinguished

Dr. Joseph Beckett of the Marshall University College of Health Professions has been chosen as the recipient of the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award from the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Trainers’ Association (MAATA).

Beckett, program director of the college’s Department of Athletic Training, is the only athletic trainer in West Virginia to receive a MAATA award in 2016.

The MAATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award is a prestigious honor that recognizes qualified MAATA members for their exceptional and unique contributions to the athletic training profession, according to Marty Bradley, associate athletic director for sports medicine at Old Dominion University in Virginia.

Bradley, a longtime friend and colleague, said he nominated Beckett for this award because of Beckett’s tremendous work ethic, commitment and loyalty to the field of athletic training.

“Joe should have been nominated for this award years ago if you look at what he has done to advance and give back to our profession,” Bradley said. “I wanted him to be recognized within the district, but also within his own institution because he is so deserving of this honor and the recognition it brings.”

Beckett received the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s Service Award in 2008 and he was named the West Virginia Athletic Training Educator of the Year in 2013, but this is the first award he has received from MAATA in his 35 years as a member.

“It’s a very humbling feeling to be recognized by my peers and it validates my work as an athletic trainer,” Beckett said. “My only hope is that my current and prospective students realize how hard work can pay off and they will be inspired to make a sustainable contribution to the field.”

The MAATA District includes universities in Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia. For more information about the MAATA and its upcoming awards symposium, visit www.maata.org. To learn more about Beckett and his work with Marshall’s Department of Athletic Training, visit www.marshall.edu/athletic-training.

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