What you need to know about steroids & sports

The NATA, in collaboration with the Taylor Hooton Foundation is offering important tips on anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs, primarily for students. We hope that you will also share these with other health care professionals, athletes, parents, coaches, athletic directors, media, school administrators, local PTA and Booster Clubs to encourage young athletes – and athletes of ALL ages – to be smart and SAFE when it comes to sports performance.

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The CIF Concussion Ruling and the CATA’s Position

Athletic Training Colleagues:

As many of you know, the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) implemented a new rule this year, regarding head injury management.

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Role Models

There have been some great articles in the news regarding our colleagues making a difference. The Las Vegas Review Journal, The Ventura County Star, The Los Angeles Times, The Honolulu Star Advertiser just to name a few. FWATA & CATA WOULD like to congratulate Laurena Caulfield, Chelsea Hutchinson, Brenda Pasqua, Jim Porter, Nicole Paskvan, and Ross Oshiro for portraying Secondary School Athletic Trainers in such a positive light!

CA State Special Service Awards

Awards presented at the FWATA Awards Banquet

Playing it Safe

Available for download are informative Fact Sheets on each of the following topics: Concussions, Heat Illness, Sudden Cardiac Arrest and AED Use, and The Role of an Athletic Trainer. Click here

Stop Sports Injuries
There is a growing epidemic of preventable youth sports injuries that are dismantling kids’ athletic hopes and dreams at an early age. In response, the STOP Sports Injuries campaign was created by a coalition of organizations and corporations to help prevent athletic overuse and trauma injuries in kids.

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