Athletic Canada is a Canadian amateur athletic association that open for all people in different sizes, shapes, ages, abilities, and skills. According to its strategic plan published on its website, the vision 2020 is “to provide world-leading programs and service in Athletics and to be recognized domestically and internationally” (Athletic Canada website, year). The mission, core values and critical success factor indicated in the report is the crucial key to success because of the SMART objective characteristic. AC can also be considered as the individual development beyond sport that attracts more potential customers. Also, AC set different events, so anybody can participate according to their interests and physical abilities.
This week I observed Ben Randall who is the assistant athletic trainer for football. He has been an athletic trainer for three years and has been with UMaine football for all of those three years. He attended the University of Southern Maine for his undergraduate degree and he is currently pursing a graduate degree at the California University of Pennsylvania. His words of wisdom were to love the job and be ready to work. He also said that if you didn’t love the job you wouldn’t want to do the work.
My career goal in the exercise science and wellness field would be becoming an athletic trainer. I enjoy playing and watching sports and have some knowledge about certain things that needs to be done when an injury occurs to an athlete. In ten years, I would expect to see myself working as an athletic trainer at Penn State University. My result of the Kiersey Temperament Sorter does support my career goal because the result showed my personality type is that of an artisan. An artisan has natural ability to excel at jobs that require hands on operations such as an athletic trainer.
In today’s scientific world there is a relatively new topic called sports medicine. According to the American College of Sports Medicine, “Sports Medicine is the field of medicine concerned with injuries sustained in athletic endeavors, including their prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.” Sports medicine is a helpful scientific field that allows medical personnel become more familiar with areas within the sports world and medical world. There are many different areas and job careers that someone can have from sports medicine. Some of the main topics that are focused on within sports medicine are physical therapy, occupational therapy, sports medicine physician and athletic training.
Athletes and Parents, Welcome to the Spartan 2016-17 Cross Country Team. As this is a no-cut sport, once you sign this contract and return it, you are on the team! We hope you are ready to hit the ground and start running! As coaches, we are excited to work with each athlete in the areas of endurance, confidence, perseverance, sportsmanship, and overall enjoyment of running. In order to do this effectively, we will need the cooperation of the runners and parents.
Specific: To be a collegiate football coach full-time. I want to be referred to as an "Assistant Coach. " I want to land a position on a coaching staff where I can help players become their best selves by leading and coaching them and encouraging them to collaborate for team success. Measurable: Within six years, I will be an assistant coach for a college football team.
Athletic training offers many opportunities and characteristics that interests me for my future career. Athletic trainers get flexible work hours, multiple benefits, many great opportunities, and much more. They get to work with various types and ages of people from children to adults and work in many different areas. Athletic trainers have a wide range of jobs. They apply protective or injury-preventive devices along with basic first aid treatment.
The mission statement is vital to the school and how the athletic/activity program is directed. The values, core beliefs, and the environment is encompassed within the mission statement and should be adhered to by the staff, students, and (hopefully) by the community. As Bebell, Stemler, & Stonnaband (2011) exclaim, “mission statements represent an important summation or distillation of an organization’s core goals represented by concise and simple statements that communicate broad theme”. The athletic director should be able to create an environment in which the students, staff, and community will comprehend and implement the mission statement. The mission statement should be the model for the students, staff, and community during the course
“Colleges and the NCAA generate more than $10.8 billion per year off of athletics” and yet, student athletes do not get paid at all for their hard work. They put in a great amount of time, effort, and work into being a student athlete. Being a college athlete is exceptionally laborious and can be both mentally and physically exhausting. There’s far more that goes into being a collegiate athlete than most individuals realize. Many people just see these athletes as the average student that in addition, gets to do what they love as an extracurricular.
My Career Goals: Athletic Training Outlined Any sports fanatic has heard about Athletic Trainers. Anyone who has watched, or has been to a sporting event, has seen the person who runs out and tends to the injured athlete on the field. That person is the team’s Athletic Trainer. While being strong and having skills are definitely needed to be a great sports player or succeed in keeping your body healthy and strong, it goes much deeper than that.
Athletic Trainer Athletic trainer is the best career for me because it will bring me personal joy, financial stability, and opportunities to help others. First, a career in athletic training it would bring me great personal satisfaction. Ever since I was in elementary school, I have been the type of person who becomes concerned for my friends’ health . I always feel that I can in some way make their lives better. This is exactly the type of work that a athletic trainer does on a daily basis.
It is sometimes overwhelming to think that I will be entering the workforce in only a few short years. Yet, I do not feel that I will have a problem obtaining a job within the first six months of graduation. With the current economic situation, I believe that I have a very good possibility of obtaining a job. Currently, unemployment is low, there are a lot of jobs open, houses are affordable, and gas prices are fairly low. Taking these things into account, it would not be too difficult for me to move for a job, find somewhere to live and pay for the gas to get to and from work.
To enhance my experience I would like to work with veterans, adult homeless, and the mentally ill. My objective is to be admitted into the Master of Science degree program with an option in Rehabilitation Counseling, where I can grow and take on new challenges. Ultimately, I would like to assume further educational and gain work experience that would allow me to work more effectively with people with disabilities. Most importantly, I would like to work for an agency where I can build a career in counseling and possibly management. I am driven to be the best at what I do.
Have you wondered why many athletes who deal with serious problems, seem to succeed? Their success is mostly the result of a the sport psychologist, who is working with them to improve their mental state. Sport psychologists take a caring approach on personal and public matters. Studies have shown the various outcomes of using a sport psychologist, in many different sports. This is why there is usually a person behind the athlete in any sport, whether it is a sport psychologist and or a role model.
The Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model is a framework for reaching an optimal training, competition and recovery schedule for all aspects of human development. This model should allow all individuals to be physically active through participation in sport and recreation. It is important to begin the learning process at a young age. Before an individual can become skilled in any activity, they must first acquire the fundamental skills. In soccer, developing the basic skills such as running, jumping, throwing, kicking, etc allows the child to utilise and incorporate them into practice and live games.
