Affton High School – Home of the Cougars!
By: Katie Schneebeck (SLU MAT Class of 2013) and Jay Maturan
(SLU MAT Class of 2014)
It’s official! We bleed purple and yellow! Located just 15
minutes from SLU’s medical campus, Affton High School has become a home to us. Most
students at Affton know our humble Athletic Training room as a safe haven
surrounded by nutritional facts, handouts, and a place where “Becky’s Always
Right.”
Becky Stigen is our fearless leader and preceptor, here at
Affton . She teaches us everything from
taping ankles to her greatest life lessons. Becky is dedicated to her job as a
teacher and friend. She cries at the end of almost every season. She is the mom
of all the teams and treats each player as if they are her own kid. Parents
know that their sons and daughters are taken good care of in her hands, and
we’re happy to be under her wing as her students.
Katie Schneebeck (SLU MAT Class of 2013), Becky Stigen ATC and Jay Maturan (SLU MAT Class of 2014) |
As graduate students in SLU’s Athletic Training Program, Affton
is a mecca of information and serves to teach us the bigger picture in Athletic
Training. We are included in every aspect of each sport. We see all the in’s
and out’s of an athletic program, write proposals for modalities, and provide
information for parents to take home for their sons and daughters. When people
look at our teams and see us on the end of the bench, we hope they realize that
Affton takes a lot of pride in their Athletic Training staff. We received free
T-shirts and parents bring us food before every football game.
We look forward to basketball, women’s swimming, and
wrestling this next season. GO COUGARS!
This is one of a series of posts by the Saint Louis University Athletic Training students featuring their clinical site and their preceptors. The number, quality and diversity of clinical instruction are major assets for the SLU AT Program.