Personal Narrative: A Career As An Athletic Trainer

I have wanted to be/ do something in the sports medicine field since I was in the seventh grade. So any chance I get I look up any information that will come up and read everything possible to give more me information about becoming an athletic trainer. This is something that has been very important to me for several years and I’m never letting go of this no matter what it takes to get there. I enjoy sports a lot and like learning how to help people get to learn more about the proper use of equipment, and I like teaching people too. That is one requirement that it takes to be an athletic trainer. I am interested in the occupation because it fits perfect in what I am looking for in a career. I feel like with me being involved in the sports the way that I am now it would be perfect and I have plans to still wanting to be as athletic when I am older too. Being an athletic trainer takes being fit/ in shape for sure!

Everyone has something they’re talented at, and many people have to try multiple things before they find their talent(s) that they have. As a child, my parents like many others had me participate in multiple activities. For example, I took dance classes, played a great amount of sports, and was a participant in many plays. In my freshman year, I tried running track and field. During the course of it, I developed shin splints and I proceeded to go to the athletic trainer. The athletic trainer here, Todd Korabek, has a system that works for the whole program. New injuries will see an aide, and that aide will then write up a card for them which lists their name, sport, injury, and body part. The aide doesn’t write the injury because only the athletic trainer can diagnose. After the athletic trainer treats all old injuries, he evaluates the new injuries, which happened to be me at that moment. Watching the aides assist Mr. Korabek really inspired me and his profession intrigued me.

A couple years back when my mother had back surgery, I would always help her up, which I seemed pretty good at, because she would always say, “Whenever you help me I can never feel it. You are really good at this.” At that time it had gone in one ear and out the other. That’s not until two years ago when my grandmother was really sick, so we had to stay days with her because she couldn’t be by herself. She was sleeping the whole day, so something just told me to wake her up. After I woke her up, she sat up for a few minutes. My family gave her some medicine and then her eyes started rolling behind her head, and she was unresponsive. At that time I rushed and called 911. The whole time I felt as if I was in a daze. At that

If I choose a career in the health field, the career that I want to be in is an athletic trainer. Athletic trainers work with athletes to help prevent injuries. If athletes do have an injury, the trainer must evaluate and treat the athlete with proper medical attention. The trainer must make sure that after medical treatment the player is physically ready to go back to playing sports. When athletes have an injury that involves therapy, the trainer must assign physical programs for them to attend. Athletic trainers work with physicians in getting together the proper rehabilitation program for the injured players. When full-time trainers work them usually work more than 40 hours a week and 8 hours a day. Sometimes they work evenings,

The first time I realized that I wanted to be an athletic trainer was during my eighth grade summer at camp. I was working on a project where I had to find careers that I was interested in. Doing this project helped me realize how many job choices there were, but only one intrigued me as much as this one. My choice to major in kinesiology was made clear during my freshman year after I job shadowed an athletic trainer at my local college and high school. High school has helped me realize who I am and what I want to become, and college will help me become that person.

Because of my strong interest in studying Sports Physiology in college, I decided to research the steps to becoming an athletic trainer. I believe that informing the readers on what it takes to become an athletic trainer will help others look at this field of work differently. The human body is an amazing thing. I’m the type of person who is intrigued to know what happens when someone is injured or hurting.

I grew up loving sports. My favorite sport has changed over the years, but the love for sports has always remained. Being an athletic trainer would allow me to stay involved with athletics and includes my love of science. Since I was a child I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Started off as veterinarian, then zoologist, then marine biologist but has always been in science. This football season has showed me the career path I want to take. I have recently been on a college visit and talked to a professor in the Kinesiology department. I know that there won't be a lot of free time in the program, so that means not a lot of time to work. This scholarship would allow me to continue my education, even with a limited income. I don't want to have

My seventh grade year Coach Humble, the seventh grade football coach, asked me and a few of my best friends to join the team. In the beginning, I worked hard to learn the rules of the game. I watched college and NFL teams play on television, and I looked up their practices and drills online as well. After I learned the game, I decided to be the team leader. I felt as if someone on the team needed to be the encourager

When it comes to job prospects, Athletic Trainers can have a fairly easy time finding a job if they look in the right areas. Missouri is the easier place to find a job if a person wanted to be an Athletic Trainer because there are more job opportunities. If a person wants to work as an Athletic Trainer it will be easiest to live in a city or town that has colleges, universities, or gyms (“Employment and Outlook” 1). Once I get the right education, I feel confident that I will find a job as an Athletic Trainer. I am glad that I would not have to leave Missouri since there are typically job openings here. I would rather not move out of Missouri, but I would not mind moving if it meant that I got to pursue the career of my choice.

For my assignment, I went to Sports Medicine South and I shadowed an athletic trainer named Jessica. This happened to be what field I wanted to go into, so it worked out well for me.

“OH MAN! We need someone to help him! I think he might have broken his leg!” Blurted one of the fans in the stand. What they are probably thinking is to call 911. But that should not be the right choice to make in such a crucial moment. Before they even notice it, the athletic trainers are already on the job. In fact, athletic trainers are doctors as well, who are always prepared for the unexpected moments and always accompany sports teams and other athletic events.

As a sophomore student my main priorities were mainly taping, wrapping, and doing basic first aid. Now as a junior athletic training student, I am finally allowed to get more involved with the athletes such as evaluating, diagnosing, managing, and also treating patients. The last few weeks in clinic, I learned a bunch of rehabilitation exercises for the lower extremities, which helped me get more involved during soccer practices because a lot of the athletes like to get treatment and do their exercises during practice. I also enjoy that once you are accepted in the professional phase, you can start doing more hands on exercises and treatments with patients, rather than sitting in the corner watching other athletic training student working with patients. Another important skill outside of the classroom that I have been getting better at with having the ability to get more involved with athletes is learning to communicate with each individual in order to come to senses on how they are progressing during treatments and

I know that you have a background in ballet, but can you tell me a little more about yourself? How did you get into this field ?

He didn’t mind the cracks that had begun forming on the soles of his trainers. Rather, he had begun liking them. He liked it when the rain would beat his back raw. When the puddles would grip at the base of his shoes, bubbling and squelching in joy as its tendrils climbed through the woollen of his socks. Or when the days held a constant distorted haze in the distance and the concrete would scorch the bottom on his trainers, licking away the rubber until it formed a perfect cast of the bottom of his shoes. In those moments, he had felt something.

During my internship I worked with Franklin High School’s football team, I started on June 25th and worked all the way to August 14th Monday-Friday for 3.5 hours each day. So all together I gotten a total of 122 hours. What I did during the internship was help the coaches in any way I possibly could, such as help setting up equipment for drills, helping the quarterbacks warm up, help run drills , and being the ball boy during their scrimmages. I did anything that the coaches asked me to help with. From this experience, I learned many things that goes into being a coach for a football team. There were some thing that I noticed about the football team that I learned about in my sports in society class. I remember talking about how some athletes think that sports are their only way of being successful, and their only way of getting out were their living right now. Some of the high schoolers saw football as their ticket of getting out of their predicaments. Sometimes they focus so much on football that they let their grades slip and get into trouble with their classes. Though the coaches do a real good job of reminding them that it’s just not their athletic ability that’ll get them into a good college, but they also have to get good grades too. The coaches do a real good job of keeping their athletes on the right track and help them when they need help so that they can play football. Something that I learned in my sponsorship and sales class helped with this situation. We