When did you get introduced to Athletic Training?

Where did you go to college?

Where was your first job?

How long have you been practicing?

Typical high school athlete story”

Kyle had an ankle injury that was pretty significant, but ended up just walking it off.

He later sustained a concussion but kept playing because we didn’t have the tools to identify a concussion back then.

Kyle talked with a friend who was a football player and one of his friends was an AT student.  That sparked an interest and he began working with Chad Starkey in Ohio

He went to WVU for a master’s degree.  Part-time he worked with a D3 school and loved getting to work all of the sports.

Kyle finally decided he needed to get out of the 3-hour radius he had always lived in.

Alabama was the furthest job offer he received from home, so he took that one.

Everything is 3-5 hours away, mountains, beaches, big cities…

Spiritually I am free to love others.

The people are great.

Nobody has a personal agenda, just people looking to do the work.

I live by work-life integration so that everything benefits.

Involvement.  They need people to get involved.

Alabama had a council of 7 members when Kyle started and now has 17 and most of the positions are full.

In 2020 we updated our state practice act and had to redo it in 2021 after COVID

We created the advisory council which allows us to have 3 doctors and 3 ATs as the decision-makers.

Retention is a big challenge.

We have focused our effort on the rural incentive grant to help the 1-3A schools’ Athletic Trainers to get up to $7500 working at those smaller schools

Alabama is starting a loan reimbursement program for people graduating with an MAT degree who can get $7500 for 5 years.

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