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National Youth Sports Safety Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month

Kelly Rider (Athletic Trainer): Enjoys Following Athlete From Injury To Return To Play

Submitted by National Youth Sports Safety Month on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 20:13. | 0 comments

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam has asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past year.

Today, we hear from Kelly Rider, M.Ed., ATC, LAT, CSCS, an athetic trainer at the Dexter-Southfield School in Brookline, Massachusetts and head coach of a girl's ice hockey team at a Boston area high school.

By Kelly Rider, M.Ed., ATC, LAT, CSCS

An athletic trainer and high school hockey coach says she realized she wanted to be an athletic trainer after an errant puck hit her glove during a hockey practice freshman year in high school. 
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Athletes Saving Athletes: The Name Says It All

After a certified athletic trainer saved Tommy Mallon's life when he suffered a spinal fracture in his last high school lacrosse game,  his mom Beth started Advocates for Injured Athletes and began a pilot program called Athletes Saving Athletes to train high school athletes about head and neck injuries, sudden cardiac arrest, heat illness, diabetes, and asthma.
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