When deciding on who to interview for this assignment I could not think of any other person I would rather interview. Rene Ponsaa,10 year athletic trainer, is the reason I decided to pursue my Athletic Training degree at Southeastern and overall has just inspired me as a person. Trainer Rene graduated from Southeastern in 2005. When he originally came to college he had absolutely no idea what he wanted to do so that led him to stay in college for 8 years! His last three years he spent in the Athletic Training Program.
Dr. Ronnie Harper, the head athletic trainer at dutchtown, was the dean over the athletic training program at southeastern at the time and was Trainer Rene’s advisor. Simply through many conversations with Dr. Harper it inspired Trainer …show more content…
Trainer Rene is a high school athletic trainer and thinks two of the most difficult parts to him is time management and organization. Being able to balance all the sports, organize individual rehab programs, being a full time teacher, and trying to spend time with his family is definiltely a hefty task and causes a lot of stress. He feels as though being a high school athletic trainer the stress and demand of the job is not as intense in comparrasion to college and professional settings. There is times in different seasons where your hours become a little longer but having summers off and spending time with his family then makes it all worth it. Being organized plays a role in time management as well having organized treatment logs, rehab programs, and just trying to come up with other stratergies to allow the program to have a systematic approach. So that every athlete goes through the same process and it becomes like clock work and uneccessary steps are not
Dr. Ronnie Harper, the head athletic trainer at dutchtown, was the dean over the athletic training program at southeastern at the time and was Trainer Rene’s advisor. Simply through many conversations with Dr. Harper it inspired Trainer …show more content…
Trainer Rene is a high school athletic trainer and thinks two of the most difficult parts to him is time management and organization. Being able to balance all the sports, organize individual rehab programs, being a full time teacher, and trying to spend time with his family is definiltely a hefty task and causes a lot of stress. He feels as though being a high school athletic trainer the stress and demand of the job is not as intense in comparrasion to college and professional settings. There is times in different seasons where your hours become a little longer but having summers off and spending time with his family then makes it all worth it. Being organized plays a role in time management as well having organized treatment logs, rehab programs, and just trying to come up with other stratergies to allow the program to have a systematic approach. So that every athlete goes through the same process and it becomes like clock work and uneccessary steps are not