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Athletic Training Program
Wins Accreditation
The athletic training program at Neumann has received accreditation
from the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education
Programs (CAAHEP). Launched in September of 2002, the athletic training
major was approved on its first review after an extensive three-year
study by the Joint Commission on Athletic Training and CAAHEP.
Accreditation means that graduates of the program can sit for the
National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certification (NATABOC)
examination. The first group of Neumann athletic training majors
will graduate at commencement exercises on May 13.
According to Hubert Lee, the athletic training program director,
"Accreditation puts us on the map. It makes us much more visible,
especially because Neumann is one of the only small colleges in
the region to offer this program."
Lee uses the term "hot major" to describe athletic training.
"If a candidate is certified, job placement is excellent in
this field," he says. Career options include being contracted
through clinics to work at high schools and colleges, working for
large companies at industrial locations, serving in the military
at installations around the world, conducting research, and teaching.
A former head athletic trainer at Lincoln University, Lee is now
president of Health Unlimited Fitness Center, Inc. He holds a B.S.
in sport pedagogy and sports medicine and an M.S. in sport biomechanics
from the University of Connecticut.
4/19/06
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