SLU AT Program Enjoying a Busy Month of Basketball

Billikens celebrating the A-10 Championship in Brooklyn!

March has been an exciting month for basketball around the Saint Louis University Athletic Training program!  The most exciting of which has been the SLU Men's Basketball Atlantic-10 championship season.   Special congratulations go out to Jonathan Burch ATC who serves as the SLU men's basketball athletic trainer.  We wish the Billikens the best as they begin the NCAA tournament vs New Mexico State in San Jose, CA on Thursday, March 21, 2013. For more information on the tournament go to: Interactive NCAA Bracket

Dan Herrin, Rachel Cocek, Janese Evans, Cat Costello, Dr. Tony Breitbach, Katie Schneebeck, Nick Gastorf and Dr. Tim Howell in the Scottrade Center.

The SLU AT program faculty and students were also busy serving as the medical team for the Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Championship at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis and the Women's Basketball Championship at the Family Arena in St. Charles.  Congratulations go to Ben McNair ATC and the Creighton Blue Jays for winning the MVC Men's Basketball tournament.  Kudos also go to Becca Fitzgerald ATC and Stephanie Hamersky ATC and the Wichita State Shockers for winning the women's title.  Best wishes to all as they compete in the NCAA Tournament.

Dr. Tony Breitbach, Lizzy Kienstra, Heather Koch and Jay Maturan at the Family Arena.

The Madness Begins!

The SLU Athletic Training Education Program and SLUCare Physicians serve as the medical staff for the Missouri Valley Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments.  We assist the team athletic trainers and also are there to help with other personnel such as spirit groups and officials.  It provides a great opportunity meet and learn from many other sports medicine professionals in an exciting environment.

SLU AT Student Geanie Butts; and faculty members Tony Breitbach and Jason Bennett assist Bradley University's medical staff members as they treat Jordan Prosser in game versus Drake University. (Photo provided by Jordan Prosser)

The Madness Begins!

The SLU Athletic Training Education Program kicked off National Athletic Training Month by serving as the Athletic Training Staff for the Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. Congrats to Athletic Trainer Don Bishop and University of Northern Iowa Panthers for winning the tournament and getting a bid for the NCAA Championship. As a part of Athletic Training Month, the Missouri Valley Conference made announcements recognizing the conference athletic trainers.

Ilene Chambers and Kellie Black served as the lead students for the event.

Dr. Paul Nativi and his team were poised and ready for any dental injuries that may occur.

It's Madness! It's Madness!

Many of us had the privilege to cover "Arch Madness" the Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament this week at Scottrade Center in St. Louis. The SLU Athletic Training Education Program coordinated the Athletic Training coverage. We also were joined by Casey Kohr, Andy Accacian and Jeremy Jordan from Clarke College. Dr. Mark Halstead of Washington University served as the Tournament Physician and Dr. Paul Nativi of Saint Louis University served as the Tournament Dentist.

We all stayed busy, but Dr. Nativi was especially busy...he made 2 trips to SLU's Center for Advanced Dental Education with Dr. Brian Habas to treat injured athletes from the tournament. You can read about the athletes injuries in their hometown papers:

https://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/03/08/usports/doc47d35f10d2023041608793.txt
https://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1200&u_sid=10278770

This tournament was a great opportunity for our staff and students. Not only did they get a chance to participate in a large well run community event, but they also had the chance to sit on the bench with 10 outstanding athletic trainers. These athletic trainers all welcomed our students and shared numerous professional insights with us.

Staff photo taken after the finals on Sunday (from left to right):
Tony Breitbach , Jeremy Jordan, Kellie Black, Mark Reinking, Ilene Chambers, Dr. Paul Nativi, Andy Accacian, Casey Kohr, Dr. Mark Halstead

Congratulations to the Drake Bulldogs and Athletic Trainer Scott Kerr for winning the title!

To view tournament details go to:
https://www.mvc-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=7600&KEY=&ATCLID=1401476

We look forward to covering the MVC Women's Tournament next week and continuing this relationship with the Valley in the years to come!

WELCOME!

Greetings!!!!

My name is Tony Breitbach and I am the Director of the Athletic Training Education Program at Saint Louis University.

I am happy to announce that our program now has a blog, this blog will serve as an effective, informal means of keeping you updated on the goings-on in our program.

I would encourage you to subscribe to the blog or make comments.

If you want more information about our program, I would encourage you visit our program web-site: https://at.slu.edu/

We are all very excited about the some things that are coming up in the near future:

March is National Athletic Training Month, I would encourage you to visit the web-site for the National Athletic Trainers Association at https://www.nata.org/

Our faculty is covering the Missouri Valley Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments, you can stay updated on the tournaments at https://www.archmadness.com/

Chaifetz Arena, the sparkling new home for Billiken Athletics, is about to open in April of 2008. The Sports Medicine Facility in the arena is a 2500 square foot state of the art facility. For more information on the arena go to: https://arena.slu.edu/, for information on upcoming arena events go to: https://www.thechaifetzarena.com/

The Billiken basketball teams are starting A-10 conference tournament play, for more info go to: https://www.slubillikens.com/

We are also interviewing candidates for a new faculty and a new staff position in our program.

There will be more updates in the future.....feel free to subscribe to this blog and make comments.

Go Billikens!

--Tony