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Tom Monagan Named Head Athletic Trainer at Colorado College

Article reposted from KKTV 11
Author: KKTV 11

Tom Monagan, the associate athletic director for student services and head athletic trainer at the University of Texas at Dallas since 2010, has been named the head athletic trainer at Colorado College, Director of Athletics Ken Ralph announced today.

Monagan joins the CC program with more than 20 years of collegiate and professional athletic training experience. During his tenure at UT-Dallas, he oversaw the athletic training staff and provided oversight to the athletic department’s strength & conditioning staff. He also collaborated with the University’s Student-Athlete Affairs program in developing nutrition, drug and alcohol education initiatives for the school’s 300-plus student-athletes.

“I am very excited to join the Colorado College family,” Monagan said. “I would like to thank Ken Ralph for this opportunity, and for his confidence in me in taking over the sports medicine program. It truly is an honor to take over this program. During the search process, I could see how special of a place CC is, and my time spent on campus with the coaches, staff, and administration only confirmed that.”

The Rochester, New York, native recently was named the NCAA Division III Head Athletic Trainer of the Year by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA). He will receive the award at the 2017 NATA Convention next month in Houston. Monagan also received the Excellence in Athletic Training Award from the Southwest Athletic Trainers’ Association in July of 2016.

“We are thrilled we could attract a candidate with Tom’s experience and expertise to join our department in this important role,” Ralph said. “We are confident Tom can build upon the outstanding quality of care our students receive from our sports medicine staff.”

Monagan is a graduate of John Carroll University, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in physical education with a specialization in athletic training in 1996. Monagan then received a master’s degree in physical education from Eastern Illinois University in 1997, while concentrating in sports administration and exercise physiology. Immediately upon graduation, he accepted a head athletic trainer position at Blackburn College, where he remained until 2000.

Monagan then joined the Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Club as a minor league athletic trainer in the Gulf Coast League, where he was an athletic trainer for the GCL All-Star Game in 2001. After one season in Bradenton, Fla., he returned to the college ranks, where he worked at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Gannon University and St. Bonaventure University.

In 2006, he was hired as an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Central Arkansas, where he provided medical and rehabilitation coverage of the school’s NCAA Division I football and basketball teams, among others. He served as a clinical preceptor in the UCA Athletic Training Program, and was the clinical coordinator for the program his last two years there.

Monagan is nationally board certified, licensed as an athletic trainer in Texas, and is an active member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA), the Southwest Athletic Trainers’ Association (SWATA), the Texas State Athletic Trainers’ Association, and the North Texas Athletic Trainers’ Society. He currently is serving on the NATA’s Committee of Professional Ethics, and is Chair of the Ethics Committee for SWATA. He has presented on professional ethics, social media and effective communication at various educational institutions and clinical symposiums.

Monagan, a volunteer instructor for the American Red Cross, enjoys golf and traveling in his spare time.

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Tom Monagan Named NCAA D-III Head Athletic Trainer of the Year

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Author: UT Dallas

UT Dallas Associate Athletic Director Tom Monagan has been named the NCAA Division III Head Athletic Trainer of the Year, announced by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA).

A native of Rochester, N.Y., Monagan is in his seventh year at UTD after taking his current position with the Comets in 2010. He is nationally board certified, licensed as an athletic trainer in Texas, and is an active member of the NATA, the Southwest Athletic Trainers’ Association (SWATA), the Texas State Athletic Trainers’ Association and the North Texas Athletic Trainers’ Society. He currently is serving on the NATA’s Committee of Professional Ethics and is Chair of the Ethics Committee for SWATA. He has presented on professional ethics, social media and effective communication at various educational institutions and clinical symposiums.  In July of 2016, he received the Excellence in Athletic Training Award from SWATA.

“Tom has been the single most important member of the administrative team at UT Dallas in terms of student well-being,” commented UTD Director of Athletics Bill Petitt. “He takes great pride in the operations at UTD and leads a group of full-time athletic trainers to provide the best health care in Division III.”

Each year the College/University Athletic Trainers’ Committee recognizes one individual for exceptional performance as a head athletic trainer in each of the following collegiate divisions: NCAA D1, NCAA D2, NCAA D3, NAIA and Junior College/Community College. Award recipients are actively involved in their community or campus, athletic training associations and promotion of the profession. Award winners must be employed as a full-time Head Athletic Trainer (or equivalent) in a collegiate setting.

Monagan will officially be presented the award at the 2017 NATA Convention this June in Houston.

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Tom Monagan Earns SWATA’s Excellence in AT Award

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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.”