Fredonia State Athletic Training
"The Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC) is a highly educated and skilled professional specializing in athletic healthcare. In cooperation with physicians and other allied health personnel, the athletic trainer functions as an integral member of the athletic healthcare team in a wide array of work settings, including: secondary schools, colleges and universities, sports medicine clinics, professional sports programs, hospitals and other athletic health care settings." --- The National Athletic Trainers' Association
Frequently Asked Questions
Procedures and Policies
Student-Athlete Paperwork
MISSION STATEMENT -- Our mission is to provide quality medical care to the student-athletes at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Quality services include care and prevention of athletic injuries, as well as any rehabilitation prescribed under the direction of a physician. The general health and wellness is the ultimate goal in the care of each student-athlete. It is our responsibility as athletic trainers to recognize that all athletes and coaches are individuals with specific needs. We will strive to meet those needs when reasonable, and to do so in an appropriate, professional, and timely manner. Services include not only the prevention and care of athletic injuries, but also first aid, evaluation, and rehabilitation through the use of ultrasound, electrical stimulation, and many other state-of-the-art pieces of rehabilitation equipment. As athletic trainers, we have the opportunity to interact with athletes in situations and states of mind that the coaches, administrators, and fans will not see. Therefore, each athlete must feel comfortable knowing that the issues addressed in the Athletic Training Room, either spoken or acted, will remain in the strictest confidence. Our goal is to have the sense of duty to try anything, within the realm of athletic training, to help an athlete get back to their area of competition. It is imperative that the athletes and their respective coaching staffs feel this sense of duty and commitment. We pride ourselves on the day-to-day organized operations of the athletic training facility in order to obtain the goals of the program. We strive to continually update the athletic training facilities and to provide a continuing education setting for the athletic training staff to improve its professional knowledge and skills. More importantly, the Fredonia State University Athletic Training Staff also strives to have an open communication and cooperation with admininstrators, coaches, athletes, and students in order to obtain our mission.
Erik Barkley, head athletic trainer
Alicia Simmonds, assistant athletic trainer