Aug 10, 2017

On Display

This article first appeared in the July/August 2017 issue of Training & Conditioning.

There are many ways to promote the athletic training profession. The North Carolina Athletic Trainers’ Association (NCATA) recently pursued a new avenue by creating an exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of History.

The idea for the exhibit, which was displayed outside the museum’s North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame wing from February 26 to April 16, 2017, came last August from NCATA Public Relations Co-Chair Kevin King, MS, LAT, ATC, CSCS, an Assistant Athletic Trainer for the Carolina Panthers. The first step to making it a reality was gaining approval from the museum’s directors.

We included material on what an athletic trainer is and described the various settings where athletic trainers work. Other banners described what concussions