NATIONAL ATHLETIC TRAINING MONTH 2014
In honor of your service to your athletes and patients. CSMA is honored to honor you during National Athletic Training Month. Each day during the month we will feature an athletic trainer. For more information visit our Facebook page.
Day 1

Name: Stephenie Stark, MS, LAT, ATC
Employer: Gardner Webb University and Director of Communications with Christian Sports Medicine Alliance
City: Shelby, NC
Career Goal: Create new and innovative opportunities for athletic trainers in the US and internationally.
Fun Fact: This picture is from my first time ever at the NCAA women’s basketball tournament with Gardner-Webb University. One of the many highlights of my career this far.
Employer: Gardner Webb University and Director of Communications with Christian Sports Medicine Alliance
City: Shelby, NC
Career Goal: Create new and innovative opportunities for athletic trainers in the US and internationally.
Fun Fact: This picture is from my first time ever at the NCAA women’s basketball tournament with Gardner-Webb University. One of the many highlights of my career this far.
Day 2

Name: Paul Waller L.A.T.
Employer: President/ Founder of Christian Sports Medicine Alliance
City: Arlington, Texas
Career Goal: To provide every Sports Medicine professional and student the opportunity to hear and know the Hope that is found in Jesus Christ and to give them to opportunity to use their skills to make God Famous on the Mission field
Fun Fact: This pic was taken in 2012 while I was in Burkina Faso. I am with a good friend and pastor delivering medical supplies to him which he uses to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to his village. His village is 100% Muslim.
Employer: President/ Founder of Christian Sports Medicine Alliance
City: Arlington, Texas
Career Goal: To provide every Sports Medicine professional and student the opportunity to hear and know the Hope that is found in Jesus Christ and to give them to opportunity to use their skills to make God Famous on the Mission field
Fun Fact: This pic was taken in 2012 while I was in Burkina Faso. I am with a good friend and pastor delivering medical supplies to him which he uses to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to his village. His village is 100% Muslim.
Day 3

Name: Megan Lynn Roach, ATC, SCAT
Employer: Georgialina Physical Therapy
City: North Augusta, SC
Career Goal: To give back to the profession through educating others on the need for ATCs everywhere and becoming to a mentor to those AT students and young ATCs.
Fun Fact: This picture was taken after working the Jenny Finch Softball Camp and I had to opportunity to talk about Jesus Christ with these two lovely women, Jenny Finch and Leah O’Brien Amico. Its not every day you get to meet Olympic Gold Medalist that know the Lord the way they do. Truly Blessed!
Employer: Georgialina Physical Therapy
City: North Augusta, SC
Career Goal: To give back to the profession through educating others on the need for ATCs everywhere and becoming to a mentor to those AT students and young ATCs.
Fun Fact: This picture was taken after working the Jenny Finch Softball Camp and I had to opportunity to talk about Jesus Christ with these two lovely women, Jenny Finch and Leah O’Brien Amico. Its not every day you get to meet Olympic Gold Medalist that know the Lord the way they do. Truly Blessed!
Day 4

Name: Jeremy Gregory
Employer: North Mesquite High School
City: Mesquite,Tx.
Career Goal: My goal is to be able to reach out to my athletes and my student trainers that I come in contact with on a daily basis. I want to let them know that there is someone who wants them to succeed. And that’s in recovery from an injury and in life.
Fun Fact: I really enjoy hunting and mountain biking, but one of my favorite sports is hockey and I am a big fan of the Dallas Stars. I also play roller and ice hockey.
Employer: North Mesquite High School
City: Mesquite,Tx.
Career Goal: My goal is to be able to reach out to my athletes and my student trainers that I come in contact with on a daily basis. I want to let them know that there is someone who wants them to succeed. And that’s in recovery from an injury and in life.
Fun Fact: I really enjoy hunting and mountain biking, but one of my favorite sports is hockey and I am a big fan of the Dallas Stars. I also play roller and ice hockey.
Day 5

Name: Jill Rondini, M.Ed.,AT, LAT, LMT
Employer: Oberlin College
City: Westlake, OH
Career Goal: To serve every athlete, coach, and athletic administrator with whom I come into contact with all the knowledge, skills, and compassion given to me, and to express my love for Christ through my interactions with those for whom I am responsible.
Fun Fact: This is a 2009 picture from a medical mission trip to Ethiopia where I witnessed the power of the Holy Spirit move powerfully among the team and those we were there to serve.
Employer: Oberlin College
City: Westlake, OH
Career Goal: To serve every athlete, coach, and athletic administrator with whom I come into contact with all the knowledge, skills, and compassion given to me, and to express my love for Christ through my interactions with those for whom I am responsible.
Fun Fact: This is a 2009 picture from a medical mission trip to Ethiopia where I witnessed the power of the Holy Spirit move powerfully among the team and those we were there to serve.
Day 6

Name: Kristi Messina ATC, LAT
Employer: Rockwall ISD
City: Rockwall, Texas
Career Goal: To many to list… Become a huge advocate for the profession of athletic training- bringing awareness of the profession and need for ATs WORLDWIDE. Also would love to further my medical career and work dually as an AT/PA for lower income clinics or sport recreation programs!
Fun Fact: This picture resonates with everything I am passionate about, helping & ministering to youth aged athletes along with mentoring youth aged females. It is in moments like this, I pray every athlete has access to an Athletic trainer! God continuously confirms my purpose in life when I can a difference in the life of even ONE athlete.
Employer: Rockwall ISD
City: Rockwall, Texas
Career Goal: To many to list… Become a huge advocate for the profession of athletic training- bringing awareness of the profession and need for ATs WORLDWIDE. Also would love to further my medical career and work dually as an AT/PA for lower income clinics or sport recreation programs!
Fun Fact: This picture resonates with everything I am passionate about, helping & ministering to youth aged athletes along with mentoring youth aged females. It is in moments like this, I pray every athlete has access to an Athletic trainer! God continuously confirms my purpose in life when I can a difference in the life of even ONE athlete.
Day 7

Name- Jonathan Hochstetler
Employer- McLeod Sports Medicine
City- Florence, SC
Career Goal- My goal is to encourage all state athletic training associations to adopt a sickle cell trait policy.
Fun Fact- I received my bachelor’s degree from Eureka College, a small division III college in central Illinois where former president Ronald Reagan also attended.
Employer- McLeod Sports Medicine
City- Florence, SC
Career Goal- My goal is to encourage all state athletic training associations to adopt a sickle cell trait policy.
Fun Fact- I received my bachelor’s degree from Eureka College, a small division III college in central Illinois where former president Ronald Reagan also attended.
Day 8

Name: Jamie K. Woodall
Employer: Bryan ISD
City: Bryan, Texas
Career Goal: To educate and empower the disadvantaged
Fun Fact: I have skied a double black diamond and lived to tell about it!
Employer: Bryan ISD
City: Bryan, Texas
Career Goal: To educate and empower the disadvantaged
Fun Fact: I have skied a double black diamond and lived to tell about it!
Day 9

Name: Kara Taylor
Employer: Heritage Park Sports Medicine & Director of International Projects and Volunteers with Christian Sports Medicine Alliance
City: Sherman, TX
Career Goal: To share the Gospel of Jesus Christ at home and around the world through my skills, knowledge, and education in Sports Medicine.
Fun Fact: I can say “Thank You” in 7 different languages!
Employer: Heritage Park Sports Medicine & Director of International Projects and Volunteers with Christian Sports Medicine Alliance
City: Sherman, TX
Career Goal: To share the Gospel of Jesus Christ at home and around the world through my skills, knowledge, and education in Sports Medicine.
Fun Fact: I can say “Thank You” in 7 different languages!
Day 10

Name: Dustin Swaim
Employer: Carthage ISD, Carthage TX
City: Live in Kilgore, TX
Career Goal: To have a long joyful career serving athletes. Hopefully have a positive impact on a few in the process.
Fun Fact: Father of 3 (5 y/o daughter, 2 y/o daughter, 10 mo/old son); Played College Football @ UMHB; Eagle Scout
Employer: Carthage ISD, Carthage TX
City: Live in Kilgore, TX
Career Goal: To have a long joyful career serving athletes. Hopefully have a positive impact on a few in the process.
Fun Fact: Father of 3 (5 y/o daughter, 2 y/o daughter, 10 mo/old son); Played College Football @ UMHB; Eagle Scout
Day 11

Name: Allan Parsells, MS, ATC
Employer: Oratory Preparatory School (Summit, NJ)
City: I live in Kingwood, NJ, but work in Summit, NJ)
Career Goal: To make a difference in the profession of Athletic Training at the national level and become involved in the education of Athletic Training Students.
Fun Fact: I am a die hard New York Mets fan in a world where there are few of us left.
Employer: Oratory Preparatory School (Summit, NJ)
City: I live in Kingwood, NJ, but work in Summit, NJ)
Career Goal: To make a difference in the profession of Athletic Training at the national level and become involved in the education of Athletic Training Students.
Fun Fact: I am a die hard New York Mets fan in a world where there are few of us left.
Day 12

Name: Karsen Moody
Employer: Gardner-Webb University, Athletic Training Student
City: Belmont, NC
Career Goal: To be able to help educate people about the profession of Athletic Training and to share my faith with everyone I come in contact with
Fun Fact: My family is my biggest support system, and I love to take pictures.
Employer: Gardner-Webb University, Athletic Training Student
City: Belmont, NC
Career Goal: To be able to help educate people about the profession of Athletic Training and to share my faith with everyone I come in contact with
Fun Fact: My family is my biggest support system, and I love to take pictures.
Day 13

Name: Diane (Shore) Kiselova
Employer: St. Pius X High School & CSMA
City: The Woodlands, TX
Career Goal: Helping people stay active, return to activities they love, or realize a new passion through sports and sports medicine in order to use sports and people’s ability to participate to reach the nations and spread the Kingdom of God.
Fun Fact: I just got married to an amazing man I met on my first CSMA trip to Ukraine. The picture below is from the first week we met and our wedding day almost 2 years later.
Employer: St. Pius X High School & CSMA
City: The Woodlands, TX
Career Goal: Helping people stay active, return to activities they love, or realize a new passion through sports and sports medicine in order to use sports and people’s ability to participate to reach the nations and spread the Kingdom of God.
Fun Fact: I just got married to an amazing man I met on my first CSMA trip to Ukraine. The picture below is from the first week we met and our wedding day almost 2 years later.
Day 14

Name: Nate Kelley, MS, ATC
Employer: Northeastern Junior College
City: Sterling, CO
Career Goal: To spread the Good News of Jesus Christ through my actions and deeds as an Athletic Trainer and Educator.
Fun Fact: My wife (who didn’t know what she was getting into by marrying an AT) and I are high school sweethearts we have been married for 12 years and together for 17 years. I credit her with getting me back on the path to a personal relationship with Christ.
Employer: Northeastern Junior College
City: Sterling, CO
Career Goal: To spread the Good News of Jesus Christ through my actions and deeds as an Athletic Trainer and Educator.
Fun Fact: My wife (who didn’t know what she was getting into by marrying an AT) and I are high school sweethearts we have been married for 12 years and together for 17 years. I credit her with getting me back on the path to a personal relationship with Christ.
Day 15

Name: JP Hamilton MS, ATC, LAT
JP Hamilton
Employer: Crisp Regional Health Services
City: Cordele, Georgia
Career Goal: To provide the highest quality of Athletic Training services to the athletes at Crisp County High School
Fun Fact: Returned back to my home town after 18 years in Florida to find myself working on athletes whose parents I graduated with….”I am officially getting old yet I don’t feel old.”
JP Hamilton
Employer: Crisp Regional Health Services
City: Cordele, Georgia
Career Goal: To provide the highest quality of Athletic Training services to the athletes at Crisp County High School
Fun Fact: Returned back to my home town after 18 years in Florida to find myself working on athletes whose parents I graduated with….”I am officially getting old yet I don’t feel old.”
Day 16

Name: Joshua Watson
Employer: Robert M. Shoemaker High School
City: Killeen, TX
Career Goal: My career goal has always been to use the knowledge and skills I have been blessed with to help and educate others. I have been able to work in a variety of venues in the short time I have been in the profession. Ultimately I would like to be in a Head position at a High School in the future, but I am in no hurry as long as I get the opportunity to serve others
Fun Fact: I enjoy hanging out with family and friend. I have been in the profession seven years and have five championship rings and several other opportunities to work with great teams.
Employer: Robert M. Shoemaker High School
City: Killeen, TX
Career Goal: My career goal has always been to use the knowledge and skills I have been blessed with to help and educate others. I have been able to work in a variety of venues in the short time I have been in the profession. Ultimately I would like to be in a Head position at a High School in the future, but I am in no hurry as long as I get the opportunity to serve others
Fun Fact: I enjoy hanging out with family and friend. I have been in the profession seven years and have five championship rings and several other opportunities to work with great teams.
Day 17

Name: Joseph Brown
Employer: Senior athletic training student from
Erskine College. Employed by Erskine
College. My paid position at Erskine is a classified as a Student Life
Assistant; it’s analogous to a Resident Assistant.
City: Whitmire, SC.
Career Goal: To become a physical therapist
Fun fact about me is that I want to play the drums for a band one day.
Employer: Senior athletic training student from
Erskine College. Employed by Erskine
College. My paid position at Erskine is a classified as a Student Life
Assistant; it’s analogous to a Resident Assistant.
City: Whitmire, SC.
Career Goal: To become a physical therapist
Fun fact about me is that I want to play the drums for a band one day.
Day 18

Name: Bobby Bonser
Employer: Erskine College
City: Abbeville, SC
Career Goal: My short-term career goal is to obtain my Doctorate of Athletic Training from the University of Idaho (I start the program this summer 2014). My long-term career goal is to continue to serve athletes and glorify Christ in a college or university setting wherever the Lord leads my wife and I.
Fun Fact: I switched my major 4 times while in undergraduate school (Theater, geography, psychology and then athletic training). Also, I took a 10-day wilderness survival course on canoes in the Everglades. . . I survived.
Employer: Erskine College
City: Abbeville, SC
Career Goal: My short-term career goal is to obtain my Doctorate of Athletic Training from the University of Idaho (I start the program this summer 2014). My long-term career goal is to continue to serve athletes and glorify Christ in a college or university setting wherever the Lord leads my wife and I.
Fun Fact: I switched my major 4 times while in undergraduate school (Theater, geography, psychology and then athletic training). Also, I took a 10-day wilderness survival course on canoes in the Everglades. . . I survived.
Day 19

Name: Tony Gambill
Employer: The Orthopedic Hospital/University of Saint Francis
City: Fort Wayne, IN
Career Goal: I have worked in several different settings and levels. I feel the college level is where God wants me to stay for a while and I hope to have a Christ-like influence on the athletes and coaches I work with.
Fun Fact: When I first came to USF, I covered football for 7 years but got burnt out on it. Now I’ve settled down to covering men’s soccer, basketball and baseball. Even though I am covering 3 sports instead of 1, I still have fewer athletes to care for than I did just covering football.
Employer: The Orthopedic Hospital/University of Saint Francis
City: Fort Wayne, IN
Career Goal: I have worked in several different settings and levels. I feel the college level is where God wants me to stay for a while and I hope to have a Christ-like influence on the athletes and coaches I work with.
Fun Fact: When I first came to USF, I covered football for 7 years but got burnt out on it. Now I’ve settled down to covering men’s soccer, basketball and baseball. Even though I am covering 3 sports instead of 1, I still have fewer athletes to care for than I did just covering football.
Day 20

Name: Shelby Pierson
Employer: Trinity Mother Frances Hospital and Clinics, Outreach to Lindale High School
State: Texas
Career Goals: Find a way to combine my love and passion for fitness, wellness/health, athletic training, and God into my daily interactions with students, athletes, coaches, parents, and peers
Fun Fact: I had never been to Texas before I moved here from Connecticut at the age of 23!
Employer: Trinity Mother Frances Hospital and Clinics, Outreach to Lindale High School
State: Texas
Career Goals: Find a way to combine my love and passion for fitness, wellness/health, athletic training, and God into my daily interactions with students, athletes, coaches, parents, and peers
Fun Fact: I had never been to Texas before I moved here from Connecticut at the age of 23!
Day 21

Name – Paul LaDuke
Employer – Lower Dauphin School District since 2001
State – Pennsylvania
Career Goals – My goals are to strive to be a better AT everyday to the athletes I am blessed to work with at Lower Dauphin School District. I also want to continue to serve in the leadership of the PA Athletic Trainer’s Society. A dream would be to serve on the Sports Medicine Advisory Committee for the PIAA, but that may be years down the road. I love the high school setting because of the opportunities to be involved in so many kids’ lives for up to 6 years. I can’t imagine ever leaving.
Fun Fact – The pictures are of my student athletic training staff (one college student and the rest high school students) at the PIAA State Semifinal football game in December, 2013. It was a very cold day in Altoona, PA. The other picture is of me taping an athlete’s wrist before the game.
Employer – Lower Dauphin School District since 2001
State – Pennsylvania
Career Goals – My goals are to strive to be a better AT everyday to the athletes I am blessed to work with at Lower Dauphin School District. I also want to continue to serve in the leadership of the PA Athletic Trainer’s Society. A dream would be to serve on the Sports Medicine Advisory Committee for the PIAA, but that may be years down the road. I love the high school setting because of the opportunities to be involved in so many kids’ lives for up to 6 years. I can’t imagine ever leaving.
Fun Fact – The pictures are of my student athletic training staff (one college student and the rest high school students) at the PIAA State Semifinal football game in December, 2013. It was a very cold day in Altoona, PA. The other picture is of me taping an athlete’s wrist before the game.
Day 22

Name: Jacky Andreatta.
Employer: Head athletic trainer at Cisco College
City: Cisco Texas. He has his Masters from Texas Tech university.
Jacky is the best AT I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. He doesn’t just teach us how to be effective trainers. He teaches us how to be amazing people. He genuinely cares about us. He has seen me through some of the hardest moments of my life. He believes in second chances. He believes in trust and loyalty as well. He hold us accountable for our actions, and makes sure we come away from every situation with a lesson learned. He is the epitome of what a hero should be. He is the reason I love Sports medicine.
– Sent in by Alissa Gaddy, student athletic trainer
Employer: Head athletic trainer at Cisco College
City: Cisco Texas. He has his Masters from Texas Tech university.
Jacky is the best AT I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. He doesn’t just teach us how to be effective trainers. He teaches us how to be amazing people. He genuinely cares about us. He has seen me through some of the hardest moments of my life. He believes in second chances. He believes in trust and loyalty as well. He hold us accountable for our actions, and makes sure we come away from every situation with a lesson learned. He is the epitome of what a hero should be. He is the reason I love Sports medicine.
– Sent in by Alissa Gaddy, student athletic trainer
Day 23

Name: Michael G. Smith, MS, SCAT
Employer: York Comprehensive High School
City: York, South Carolina
Career Goal: World domination by all high school athletic trainers
Fun Fact: As a hobby I build model cars, play guitar in church praise band
Employer: York Comprehensive High School
City: York, South Carolina
Career Goal: World domination by all high school athletic trainers
Fun Fact: As a hobby I build model cars, play guitar in church praise band
Day 24

Name: Angela Hornby
Employer: Athletic Training Student at Erskine College
City: Due West, SC
Career goal: I plan to graduate from Erskine and attend a grad school that will enhance my skills to be a better Athletic Trainer.
Fun Fact: God has blessed me with an amazing man, and we are getting married this summer!
Employer: Athletic Training Student at Erskine College
City: Due West, SC
Career goal: I plan to graduate from Erskine and attend a grad school that will enhance my skills to be a better Athletic Trainer.
Fun Fact: God has blessed me with an amazing man, and we are getting married this summer!
Day 25

Name: Sarah Baulch
Employer: Hereford ISD
City: Hereford, TX
Career goal: to establish new learning opportunities for students in the TX panhandle and to travel the world doing what I love while sharing the word of God
Fun fact: in 2010, I had the opportunity to work with the Army’s ROTC leaders training course at Ft. Knox, KY
Employer: Hereford ISD
City: Hereford, TX
Career goal: to establish new learning opportunities for students in the TX panhandle and to travel the world doing what I love while sharing the word of God
Fun fact: in 2010, I had the opportunity to work with the Army’s ROTC leaders training course at Ft. Knox, KY
Day 26

Name: Jessi Galindo
Employer: student at Howard Payne University (classification: Junior)
City: hometown: Del Rio, TX
attending school in: Brownwood, TX
Career Goal: I would like to eventually work at a high school and then move up to a college level. Going pro as an athletic trainer is my ultimate dream.
Fun Fact: I have been to Southeast Asia with athletic training twice.
Employer: student at Howard Payne University (classification: Junior)
City: hometown: Del Rio, TX
attending school in: Brownwood, TX
Career Goal: I would like to eventually work at a high school and then move up to a college level. Going pro as an athletic trainer is my ultimate dream.
Fun Fact: I have been to Southeast Asia with athletic training twice.
Day 27

Name: La’ Tamera Fry
Employer: Kilgore ISD
City: Kilgore, TX
Career Goal: My goal is to continue to excel in the field of Athletic Training while also growing closer to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I would also like to eventually be able to take the things I have learned here to other countries around the world and I would like to work with the rodeo more often. I would like to learn more and more techniques and procedures with each day to better serve the athletes I work with, and to walk in Christ so that my lifestyle is a witness to the sovereignty of God.
Fun Fact: I love to incorporate laughter into the treatments for my athletes when it is appropriate because I feel that laughter is the best therapy there is.
Employer: Kilgore ISD
City: Kilgore, TX
Career Goal: My goal is to continue to excel in the field of Athletic Training while also growing closer to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I would also like to eventually be able to take the things I have learned here to other countries around the world and I would like to work with the rodeo more often. I would like to learn more and more techniques and procedures with each day to better serve the athletes I work with, and to walk in Christ so that my lifestyle is a witness to the sovereignty of God.
Fun Fact: I love to incorporate laughter into the treatments for my athletes when it is appropriate because I feel that laughter is the best therapy there is.
Day 28

Name: Heidi Jo Hendrickson ATC, LAT, NASE-CSS
Employer: Western Texas College
City: Snyder TX
Career Goal: To daily serve each athlete, coach, and administrator that I work with, to make a positive impact in the lives of those I come in contact with daily
Fun Fact:This picture was taken on my first CSMA trip to Ethiopia 3 summers ago, I am also in the process of training for my first half marathon
Employer: Western Texas College
City: Snyder TX
Career Goal: To daily serve each athlete, coach, and administrator that I work with, to make a positive impact in the lives of those I come in contact with daily
Fun Fact:This picture was taken on my first CSMA trip to Ethiopia 3 summers ago, I am also in the process of training for my first half marathon
Day 29

Name: Dr. Carrie Hendrick ATC
Employer: Averett University
City: Danville, Virginia
Career Goal: Become a program director
Fun Fact: I am a cancer survivor as of January 6, 2014 ( ovarian Cancer)
Employer: Averett University
City: Danville, Virginia
Career Goal: Become a program director
Fun Fact: I am a cancer survivor as of January 6, 2014 ( ovarian Cancer)
Day 30

Name: Cody Walls
Employer: Texarkana ISD
City: Texarkana, Texas
Career Goal: To make a positive impact in the lives of others by using my God given talents to glorify him.
Fun Fact: I have a wonderful wife and we have a beautiful 7 y/o daughter and before I was 21 y/o I had won both National and World Powerlifting Championships
Employer: Texarkana ISD
City: Texarkana, Texas
Career Goal: To make a positive impact in the lives of others by using my God given talents to glorify him.
Fun Fact: I have a wonderful wife and we have a beautiful 7 y/o daughter and before I was 21 y/o I had won both National and World Powerlifting Championships
Day 31

Name: Amanda Morcom
Employer: Athletic Training Student at Gardner-Webb University (senior)
City: Boiling Springs, NC
Career Goal: My career goals include pursuing an additional degree in physical therapy and to work with military veterans. I want to give back for all the benefits the military has given to me as the daughter of an army soldier.
Employer: Athletic Training Student at Gardner-Webb University (senior)
City: Boiling Springs, NC
Career Goal: My career goals include pursuing an additional degree in physical therapy and to work with military veterans. I want to give back for all the benefits the military has given to me as the daughter of an army soldier.