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Athletic Training

As an athletic training student at Emporia State University, you will have many opportunities to grow and expand the knowledge you will need as you begin your career in the field of athletic training. Your professors will first teach you in the classroom; you will then be given an opportunity to practice the skills you have been taught both in the classroom and in a clinical setting. Through the two phases of this program, you will gain insight, knowledge, responsibility, and full understanding of the athletic trainer's role. All of the theoretical concepts and skills related to athletic training are presented in exciting and challenging classroom, clinical, and field experiences.


Salaries

  • Median Starting Salary: Approx: $31,800*
  • After 5 Years Experience: Approx: $38,000

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Quick Facts

  • The ESU Athletic Training Program is fully accredited through Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE).
  • The Intercollegiate Athletic Training Rooms are the designated physical facilities where comprehensive health care is provided to student athletes. These same facilities are used by athletic training students to develop their clinical skills in a structured laboratory environment.
  • The clinical emphasis and sports covered are: upper extremity - baseball, football, volleyball, tennis, track (throwers), and cheerleading; lower extremity - football, soccer, cross-country, track, and basketball; general medical - all sports ; and equipment intensive - football.
  • Athletic training students are directly supervised by a faculty athletic trainer providing athletic medicine services to the sports mentioned above. Services provided include but are not limited to the following: practice preparation, practice coverage, game preparation, game coverage, first aid, injury/illness evaluation, follow-up care, therapeutic modalities, rehabilitation, and other athletic medical services. Students are evaluated on their clinical skill development and proficiencies by means of written tests, skill tests, and oral practical tests.

Career Opportunities

  • University Athletics
  • Professional Athletics
  • Health

Major Requirements

  • Students are required to follow a strict program established by the national Athletic Training Education Program (ATEP).
  • Clinical Education Requirement: work a minimum of 10 hours per week as an athletic training student.
  • Sophomore Clinical Procedure: 150 clinical education hours per semester, or approximately 10 hours/week.
  • Junior Clinical Procedures: minimum of 225 clinical education hours per semester, or approximately 15 hours/week.
  • Senior Clinical Procedures: minimum of 225 clinical education hours per semester, or approximately 15 hours/week.

Clubs

  • ESU Athletic Training Club
  • HPER Club

August 2008: www.payscale.com: Athletic Trainer