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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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Howard Payne Students Participate in SWATA Workshop

Article reposted from Howard Payne University
Author: Howard Payne University

Seven Howard Payne University students majoring in athletic training participated in the ninth annual Southwest Athletic Trainers’ Association (SWATA) competency workshop and quiz bowl at the end of January. The event took place on the Texas State University campus in San Marcos.

HPU students who attended the conference were senior Ruth Davis from Cibolo, senior Corey Martinez from Bangs, senior Dezeray Tafte from Eastland, senior Elizabeth Fargo from Saginaw, senior William Rangel-Alfaro from San Antonio, junior Dustin Bachus from Edna and junior Ariana Rehm from Uhland.

This was the first time all HPU athletic training upperclassmen were able to participate in this event. HPU is one of 17 professional athletic training programs in SWATA, which includes graduate and undergraduate programs from Texas and Arkansas. The workshop is designed to increase the students’ professional and clinical skills as well as help them prepare for the certification exam.

The quiz bowl is a competition in the style of a game show made up of teams of three from accredited schools in SWATA. HPU’s team consisted of seniors Davis, Martinez and Tafte. They competed with teams from universities including The University of Texas, Texas State University, Texas A&M University, Hardin-Simmons University, Baylor University, The University of Texas at Arlington and Texas Lutheran University. The winning team from the quiz bowl gets the opportunity to compete in a similar competition at the National Athletic Trainers Association meeting this summer.

“I am really proud of our quiz bowl team,” said Mike Terrill, director of HPU’s Athletic Training Education Program. “They competed very well and represented the quality of education we provide at Howard Payne.”

For more information about the Athletic Training Education Program, contact HPU’s School of Education at 325-649-8203 or visit www.hputx.edu/atep.

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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.”

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Dieringer Wins 2016 SWATA Bobby Gunn Hero Watch Award

Kathy Dieringer, athletic trainer and co-owner of D&D Sports Med in Denton, is the recipient of the 2016 Bobby Gunn Unsung Hero Watch Award.

The award is given annually by the Southwest Athletic Trainers’ Association to a member who has served the association in a dedicated and professional manner.

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