Taft was recently honored with the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Safe Sports School award. The award reinforces the importance of providing the best level of care, injury prevention, and treatment by recognizing secondary schools that provide safe environments for student athletes.
“We are honored to receive this First Team recognition from NATA,” said Taft’s head athletic trainer Sergio Guerrera. “Our goal is to lead our athletics program to the highest safety standards for our players. We remain committed to keeping our student athletes safe during physical education classes, team practices, and games. This allows them to successfully meet their personal goals of great competition, winning records, fair sportsmanship, and good health.”
The Safe Sports School award recognizes schools that:
- Create a positive athletic health care administrative system
- - Provide or coordinate pre-participation physical examinations
- - Promote safe and appropriate practice and competition facilities
- - Plan for selection, fit function and proper maintenance of athletic equipment
- - Provide a permanent, appropriately equipped area to evaluate and treat injured athletes
- - Develop injury and illness prevention strategies, including protocols for environmental conditions
- - Provide or facilitate injury intervention
- - Create and rehearse a venue-specific Emergency Action Plan
- - Provide or facilitate psychosocial consultation and nutritional counseling/education
- - Be sure athletes and parents are educated about the potential benefits and risks in sports as well as their responsibilities
For more information please visit: www.athletictrainers.org.
About NATA: National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) – Health Care for Life & Sport
Athletic trainers are health care professionals who specialize in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries and sport-related illnesses. They prevent and treat chronic musculoskeletal injuries from sports, physical and occupational activity, and provide immediate care for acute injuries. Athletic trainers offer a continuum of care that is unparalleled in health care. The National Athletic Trainers' Association represents and supports 43,000 members of the athletic training profession. Visit www.nata.org.