“And I’ll bring (the video) in and seeing that click in their head is awesome.” Shaw, did you see so-and-so got hurt?’” Shaw said. The students see how what they have learned applies in real time and in the real world. Together, trainers and students analyze what happened together. In class, Shaw will show students recent sports injuries, such as the anterior cruciate ligament tear suffered by Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray in April. Shaw didn’t have teaching on his radar after working in Division I athletics at Northern Kentucky, but he has discovered a love of watching the excitement in students for sports medicine. They’ve taught me everything that I know up until now.” “I’ve become a better person because of them. “They have helped raise me all throughout high school,” Skeeters said. She also credits Portela, Shaw and Woodward for the impact they have made on her and others in the program. Students in the program also earn dual credit from O’Connor and Rio Salado College in Tempe, another aspect of the program that helps propel it over other programs in the state.Įlise Skeeters, a senior who graduated in May and is now at Arizona State studying sports science and performance programming, said everything she is learning will translate to her major at ASU and her future career. “They can see an injury happen from emergency, all the evaluation, to treatment, to rehab, back to pre-injury status,” Portela said. Portela said students benefit from the opportunity to treat the school’s athletes while also observing the work of Portela, Shaw and Woodward throughout the entire injury-treatment-recovery process. Is help on way? Full-time athletic trainers still luxury at secondary schools “If we don’t get the students, we don’t have the program.” Melissa Portela, another of the school’s full-time athletic trainers along with Shaw and Courtney Woodward, said that while the facilities and staff are top-level, it is the students who have propelled the program into one of the best among Arizona high schools. Additionally it showed that the lack of sports medicine treatment is even greater for private schools (45%). A 2019 study conducted by the Korey Stringer Institute revealed that 34% of public and private high schools have no access to athletic trainers in the United States.
The athletes at the school are fortunate.
The clinic is so comprehensive that Grand Canyon University sports medicine students often ask to come to Sandra Day O’Connor to get experience while doing their clinical rotations. He served an internship in athletic training at NKU in Highland Heights, Kentucky. “The clinic in there (is) double the size of the clinic in Northern Kentucky for DI athletics,” said athletic trainer Warren Shaw, pointing at the facility. It’s a sports medicine facility that outshines those at many colleges. Together, they treat athletes in all sports out of a $1 million facility near the school’s gym. Sandra Day O’Connor employs three full-time athletic trainers, who double as teachers in a sports medicine program that has attracted about 350 students. However, a cutting edge, college-level athletic training program at the north Valley school is not only providing quality treatment to all of those Eagles athletes, it is giving future athletic trainers valuable hands-on experience in the process. PHOENIX – Keeping about 700 athletes at Sandra Day O’Connor High School healthy is a demanding task.
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