Athletic Training Education Awarded Diversity Grant

08/17/18

Clinical Instructor Katie Sheehan, MS, ATC and Professor Paul R. Geisler, EdD, ATC of the Athletic Training Education program in DESS were recently awarded a modest diversity enhancement grant by the National Athletic Trainers' Association Ethnic Diversity Advisory Committee (NATA EDAC). Submitted on behalf of the AT Program's EquAT and InclusivAT programming and with the help of several current Athletic Training students, the grant will fund a unique program involving Ithaca High School students during the coming academic year.

The NATA EDAC serves in an advisory capacity to the Board of Directors, aiming to identify and address issues relevant to the ethnically diverse populations to better serve the needs of both patients and fellow athletic trainers. EDAC advocates sensitivity toward cultural diversity, development of cultural competence within the profession and promotion of athletic trainers as leaders in issues related to cultural competence and professional diversity within the health care professions.has made planning grants available to educational institutions seeking to enhance ethnic diversity within the profession.

The grant awarded to the IC AT Education Program and its EquAT and InclusivAT program was awarded under Category 1, as its intended to recruit, retain and educate ethnically diverse athletic training students with the intent to increase the number of ethnically diverse certified athletic trainers. Current Athletic Training students, Katie Dolan ('19), Jennifer Gordan ('19), Shelby McDavid ('19), Tony Cosby ('19), and Niklas McKone ('19) were instrumental in conceiving and constructing the grant proposal, and will be central to implementing the program this year.

The grant funds the formation and implementation of an "athletic training club" for interested minority students at Ithaca High School in coordination with their certified athletic trainer. Members will attend AT classes and workshops at IC to learn more about sports medicine and what athletic trainers "do", take part in pre game, in game and post game athletic training duties with Bomber Athletics Events and certified athletic trainers, and experience how athletic training roles differs in the Division 1 environment by attending events and athletic training clinics at Cornell University and Syracuse University.

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