Rowan County Senior High School Receives National Athletic trainers' Association Safe sports school award
Program recognizes high schools that help to keep young athletes safe
2016 – Rowan County Senior High School is the recipient of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Safe Sports School award for its athletics program. The award champions safety and recognizes secondary schools that provide safe environments for student athletes. The award reinforces the importance of providing the best level of care, injury prevention and treatment.
“We remain committed to the health and welfare of young athletes in competitive sports,” says NATA President Scott Sailor, EdD, ATC. “This award recognizes the contributions and commitment of schools across the country that are implementing safe sports policies and best practices to ensure athletes can do what they love best and have the appropriate care in place to prevent, manage and treat injuries should they occur.”
In order to achieve Safe Sport School status, as Rowan County Senior High School did, athletic programs must do the following:
* Create a positive athletic health care administrative system
* Provide or coordinate pre-participation physical examinations
* Promote safe and appropriate practice and competition facilities
* Plan for selection, fit function and proper maintenance of athletic equipment
* Provide a permanent, appropriately equipped area to evaluate and treat injured athletes
* Develop injury and illness prevention strategies, including protocols for environmental conditions
* Provide or facilitate injury intervention
* Create and rehearse a venue-specific Emergency Action Plan
* Provide or facilitate psychosocial consultation and nutritional counseling/education
* Be sure athletes and parents are educated of the potential benefits and risks in sports as well as their responsibilities
For more information please visit: www.athletictrainers.org.
About NATA: National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) – Health Care for Life & Sport
2016 – Rowan County Senior High School is the recipient of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Safe Sports School award for its athletics program. The award champions safety and recognizes secondary schools that provide safe environments for student athletes. The award reinforces the importance of providing the best level of care, injury prevention and treatment.
“We remain committed to the health and welfare of young athletes in competitive sports,” says NATA President Scott Sailor, EdD, ATC. “This award recognizes the contributions and commitment of schools across the country that are implementing safe sports policies and best practices to ensure athletes can do what they love best and have the appropriate care in place to prevent, manage and treat injuries should they occur.”
In order to achieve Safe Sport School status, as Rowan County Senior High School did, athletic programs must do the following:
* Create a positive athletic health care administrative system
* Provide or coordinate pre-participation physical examinations
* Promote safe and appropriate practice and competition facilities
* Plan for selection, fit function and proper maintenance of athletic equipment
* Provide a permanent, appropriately equipped area to evaluate and treat injured athletes
* Develop injury and illness prevention strategies, including protocols for environmental conditions
* Provide or facilitate injury intervention
* Create and rehearse a venue-specific Emergency Action Plan
* Provide or facilitate psychosocial consultation and nutritional counseling/education
* Be sure athletes and parents are educated of the potential benefits and risks in sports as well as their responsibilities
For more information please visit: www.athletictrainers.org.
About NATA: National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) – Health Care for Life & Sport
Meet your athletic Trainer
Tyler Pruitt is the Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC) at Rowan County Senior High School. He attended Eastern Kentucky University where he received his Bachelor's of Science in Athletic Training. Tyler has special interest in studying concussions and how they immediately effect young athletes and the future repercussions of concussive impacts from athletics. Tyler's passion for young athletes drives his career and he hopes to provide the student-athletes of Rowan County with the best medical coverage possible.
IMpact testing made available for Rowan County senior high school
Rowan County Senior High School has teamed up with Dr. Andy Gilliland and his staff at King's Daughters Medical Center in Ashland to provide baseline concussion testing for our student athletes via the ImPACT testing system. ImPACT (Immediate Post-concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing) is currently being used by over 7,400 high schools, 1,000 colleges and universities, 200 professional teams, and countless other organizations in order to assess the brain's function following a potential concussive impact. For more information regarding ImPACT testing visit their website at www.impacttest.com.
