Open-door policy: Full-time athletic trainers bond with athletes
Taped to the outside of the athletic trainer’s room door in Musgrove Fieldhouse is an invitation.
Andi Sumerfelt welcomes any students interested in sports medicine to her after-school, extracurricular program for the 2012-13 school year. After all, when she sees bright-eyed student athletic trainers, it brings her back to her junior year at Shakopee High School, in her Minnesota hometown.
She was the only female member of the hockey team and, evidently, the only one wired for action when the team’s goaltender took a slapshot off his neck, right where it met his jaw and precisely where there was no equipment to protect him.
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