WVWC Athletic Training

Wesleyan Students Shine in West Virginia Athletic Trainers Association Competitions released: 04/08/03



Seven West Virginia Wesleyan students and athletic training majors shined brightly during the 2003 West Virginia Athletic Trainers Associations (WVATA) Annual Meeting and Competitions on March 28 at the Ramada Plaza City Center Hotel at Wheeling, West Virginia.

Seniors Jen Schofield, Brian Potter and Travis McCormack, and juniors Danielle Salmons, Ashley Bland, Jennifer Jordan, and Jay Kitchens were were invited to enter the WVATA Student Oral Presentation and Poster Presentations competitions.

Schofield and Potter were selected to present their senior thesis. Schofields was entitled Ergogenic aids and the high school athlete: perceptions and knowledge, while Potters was Sudden cardiac death in athletics: the athletic trainers role and the importance of automated external defibrillators.

Potter finished second in the competition and was awarded $100.

Schofield, McCormack, Salmons, Kitchens, Jordan, and Bland were selected to present their research papers in poster format. Salmons and Bland finished in first place and won $100 for their work, "Slap lesion in a 20-year-old softball player: a case report."

Jordan and Kitchens and their work "Symmetrical osteoarthritis in an aging factory worker", and Schofield and McCormack's work, "Making an impact", tied for second place and both duos were awarded $50.

To enter into the WVATA Student and Oral Presentation and Poster Presentation competitions, students are asked to submit an abstract of their research. Each abstract then undergoes a blind review by a panel of WVATA members and is rated. The top selections are invited to participate as either speakers or poster presenters at the meeting.

Awards, in the form of cash, were given this year to the first and second place finishers in each category (sponsored by HealthSouth).

Remarked Jean Fruh, Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Athletic Training, "Participation in this type of an event is an important step in the professional preparation of the athletic training student."

The West Virginia Wesleyan Student Athletic Trainers Club also won the WVATA Fund Raising Contest.

Their donation of $250 to the WVATA Licensure efforts surpasses all other student organizations in West Virginia. For this honor, they were presented a plaque and a medical kit worth $100.



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