News and Notes
NEWS FROM THE DIRECTOR:
NEW FACES:
We would like to welcome two of the newest members of the Heidelberg College Athletic Training Department; Ashley Stambolis (Graduate Assistant) & Katsumi Takeno, ATC (Assistant AT and Instructor). In addition to being a Certified Athletic Trainer, Katsumi Takeno has an extremely high sports IQ as former semi-professional athletes (former tri-athlete). Ashley joins us from the University of Maine and has been a breath of fresh air for the department and a great help with administrative tasks as well as the football team. We are excited about the positive energy, knowledge, skill, and diversity that both of our new members bring to the department. It is also worth noting the Jerry Bean, Head Athletic Trainer, is beginning his first full year since coming to Heidelberg in January 2008.
In addition to new faculty, the college has also been fortunate to have new physicians join the Stoner Health Center and Athletic Training Department. Dr. Sears, Dr. Akers, and Dr. Copeland will serve the medical needs of the Heidelberg College students and student-athletes. In addition to serving the medical needs, Dr. Copeland will also serve as the Medical Director of Athletic Training. We are more than excited to have them all join the BERG!
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INVITATION:
We invite alumni and friends of the program to join us in getting to know the new faces and personalities both in the faculty and student pools as we look to put together an alumni function in the spring....more to come....keep posted.
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PROGRESS:
As we prepare with renewed energy for the return of our junior and senior athletic training students and the invocation of the new sophomore class, I look back on the year past (07-08) at how we have all grown with great humility. Most importantly, I can emphatically and proudly say that as a department we are in a better position today than we were one year ago when I arrived at Heidelberg College. I expect to be able to say this every year, which means we have our work cut out for us this year, but we are surely up to the task!
Allow me to provide just a few successes that we have accomplished in the past year:
1) We will have a larger staff including new head athletic trainer and graduate assistant positions, while most of last year we were understaffed.
2) We have a great incoming sophomore class of students (10) that have great promise, in addition to nearly 50 candidates for this year that will complete an updated online application on this very website.
3) We have a few small additions to the AT Facilities including: an Upper Body Ergometer, Hydrocollator, Game Ready compression unit, new black table coverings for both the ATR and Rehab Rooms, new whirlpool table tops, new text books in our student resource area......and the list goes on.
4) We have added two new ATR courses including a Taping Lab for sophomores and a Strength and Conditioning course for junior level students.
5) We have a new Medical Director of Athletic Training, Steven Copeland MD, and two new Stoner Health Center / Team Physicians, Dr. Sears and Dr. Akers. With these personnel changes we are developing new policies that will prove very beneficial to the ATEP including potentially performing athletic physicals on campus and using MD offices and new clinical education sites. We would like to express great thanks to James Anthony, MD, Rudy Vela, MD; and John Vela, MD for their many years of excellent service to Heidelberg College.
6) We have a few new ACI's and our CEC is effectively utilizing our clinical sites to ensure that our students will obtain a thorough and diverse education that will prepare them for a career in a multitude of settings. We would like to thank Latessa Tillinghast and Kevin Lewis for their years of service to the ATEP as ACIs (and so much more) and wish them well in their new positions respectively.
7) We have great positive faculty chemistry as a department and are continually working hard to build great relationships with other departments on campus. I would like to personally thank former AT faculty that I had the pleasure to work with; Laura Kunkel and Karen Keenan; for their service to the AT Department and wish them great heights in their new positions.
8) Perhaps most importantly, the ATR curriculum has been updated to address the newest version of the BOC Exam, NATA competencies, and CAATE standards as we prepare for re-accreditation and our site visit in the Fall of 2009.
With the strong support of the administration, particularly Dr. David Weininger, Senior VPAA and Dean, and the hard work of the ATR faculty (past and present), we have made great strides and are proud of what we have accomplished in the past year.
Mr. Bates
8/10/08____updated 8/24/08