Life at Lindenwood-Belleville University
By: Alex
Sawyer & Katie Mae Herington (SLU MAT Class of 2013)
Our first few
days at Lindenwood-Belleville
University were early
ones. Preseason football started July 28th
at 5:00 a.m. and it took some getting used to.
Lindenwood-Belleville has been a unique experience. Not only did we have to adapt to early
mornings and long hours, but the football team was starting its inaugural
season. Therefore we had over one
hundred new athletes to get to know as well as learning how a new program gets
on its feet. With five SLU AT students
(two PY2, three PY1) at LBU we quickly got into a routine. Three of us have ended up covering football
full-time and every day is a learning experience.
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| Blake Hudspeth and Emily Grace (SLU MAT Class of 2014) with Katie Herington and Alex Sawyer (SLU MAT Class of 2013) |
As PY2’s we’ve
gotten a lot of hands on experience assisting with football. We’ve spent almost everyday for three months
with the football team, covering every practice and every game, home or away. Some trips have been longer then others, like
the twelve hour bus ride to Oklahoma
Panhandle State
University. Or the shorter but more interesting ride to Lawrence, KS
that involved leaking bus windows, no wi-fi, broken tvs, and our bus losing a
mirror to a tree.
William Dill ATC,
Head Athletic Trainer, told us from the beginning to make this place our own,
and in a way we have. We’ve become a
weird little family. Once football
season wraps up, we’ll be assisting in covering men’s and women’s basketball as
well as men’s and women’s wrestling. LBU
has twenty-three sports so there’s always someone in the athletic training room
that needs help.
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.
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