News: Athletic Training

First-year students in UCF’s Athletic Training Program take a clinical skills class where they learn functional knowledge of human anatomy, advanced taping and bracing skills, and clinical assessment of general medical conditions. The students...

Congratulations, Rey Malave, for earning the UCF Athletic Training Program’s first Preceptor of the Month award! Malave (B.S. in athletic training ’11) is an athletic trainer with CORA Rehabilitation. Praise...

Allison Newsome, a junior in UCF’s Athletic Training Program, was recently selected for the Athletic Trainers’ Association of Florida’s Student LEAPS Program for 2018-2019. Newsome is one of 10 students...

This past football season was more than just a win for the UCF Knights football team and coaches. It was also a win for athletic training students Alina Verdeja and...

Adam and Melissa Casebolt met while undergraduate students. Across a crowded basketball court, their eyes locked, briefly. Melissa, a member of the basketball team’s student athletic training staff, was focused...

Students from the College of Nursing and the College of Health and Public Affairs came together for an interprofessional education (IPE) event in July. The one-day training taught the students...

Kristen Schellhase, interim chair of the Department of Health Professions, has been appointed a Dean’s Fellow for the 2017-18 academic year, announced Dean Michael Frumkin. “Dr. Schellhase has done an...

Last month Orlando hosted some of the biggest names in the NFL at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort. They came together to...

Loudenve (Lulu) Marc, a senior in the UCF Athletic Training Program, is the proud recipient of this year’s Athletic Trainers’ Association of Florida (ATAF) Hall of Fame Legacy Award. Lulu,...

Athletic trainers gathered in June, 2016, for the annual National Athletic Trainers’ Association 67th NATA Clinical Symposia & AT Expo in Baltimore, MD.  The day before the Symposia began, hundreds of...