Athletic Training Application Papers

As an Athletic Training undergraduate at Winthrop University, I am required to have at least 60 hours total from two Clinical sites. The two sites I was given at the beginning of the semester were Women’s Basketball and Fort Mill High School. While at my High School site for the first half of the semester I learned an astonishing amount of new things. Besides meeting new people and making relationships with new people in my major, I also learned firsthand what it could possibly be like to be an Athletic trainer. Although I played both basketball and football in high school I never really realize the importance of having an athletic trainer. During my time at my clinical site, I also learned the purpose of ultrasound and Stretching. Looking from the outside in you would never realize that there's a lot of behind-the-scenes work that you may never see. During my downtime at my clinical site, I was able to gain practical experience by apply methods that I learned in the class.

As time went by I discovered that rather than asking questions all the time it can be just as helpful to just watch things occur naturally. While watching my older peer’s complete complex tasks and answer what seem to be difficult questions I can honestly say it was a dramatic life changing moment for me. Although I knew that pursuing a degree wouldn't be easy, after watching my peer’s complete things with ease I felt like I could also follow their positive footsteps as well to be successful. Throughout the time period, I also was able to learn other new things that I didn't know and also polish my