W AT Program Celebrates 10 Years of Changes, Growth elcome to the first issue of the Florida Gulf Coast University Athletic Training Program newsletter. It is difficult to imagine that we will be hosting our 10 th graduating class in May 2016. Where has the time gone? The past 10 years have been exciting with the addition of new faculty members, new facilities and a new name. Here are some highlights: The program continues to build on a solid foundation. We are thrilled to learn that the AT class of 2015 had a Board of Certification first-time pass rate of 94%, well above the national average of 82%. We moved from Ben Hill Griffin Hall into our new office and laboratory space with the opening of Marieb Hall in 2012. Students now have full access to a 1,600-square-foot lab facility dedicated to athletic training, as well as laboratories for exercise, human anatomy/cadaver and motion analysis, plus a HydroWorx ® therapy pool. Our department name has changed. We have combined with the Occupational Therapy program and are now called the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences. AT Program, cont’d page 2 Inside Faculty Spotlight – Meet Kelley Henderson, AT Clinical Education Coordinator 2 4 Alumni: Where are they now? Learn about what our alumni are doing now. AT Students & Grads In and Outside the Class- room 7 Meet the Class of 2017 Alumni Event - Save the Date FGCU, Department of Rehabilitaon Sciences, Athlec Training Program, Fall 2015
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AT Program Celebrates 10
Years of Changes, Growth
elcome to the first issue of the Florida Gulf Coast University Athletic
Training Program newsletter. It is difficult to imagine that we will be hosting our
10th graduating class in May 2016. Where has the time gone? The past 10
years have been exciting with the addition of new faculty members, new
facilities and a new name. Here are some highlights:
The program continues to build on a solid foundation. We are thrilled to
learn that the AT class of 2015 had a Board of Certification first-time pass
rate of 94%, well above the national average of 82%.
We moved from Ben Hill Griffin Hall into our new office and laboratory
space with the opening of Marieb Hall in 2012. Students now have full
access to a 1,600-square-foot lab facility dedicated to athletic training, as
well as laboratories for exercise, human anatomy/cadaver and motion
analysis, plus a HydroWorx ® therapy pool.
Our department name has changed. We have combined with the
Occupational Therapy program and are now called the Department of
Rehabilitation Sciences.
AT Program, cont’d page 2
Inside Faculty Spotlight – Meet
Kelley Henderson, AT
Clinical Education
Coordinator
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4 Alumni: Where are they
now? Learn about what
our alumni are doing
now.
AT Students & Grads In
and Outside the Class-
room
7 Meet the Class of 2017
Alumni Event - Save the
Date
FGCU, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Athletic Training Program, Fall 2015
We welcomed Kelley Henderson in 2012 who has taken on the role
of Clinical Education Coordinator.
Undergraduate students are participating in research opportunities
with faculty. They are submitting to the National Athletic Trainers’
Association for presentation and publication.
We have collaborated with the FGCU Exercise Science pogrom to
propose a 2016 study abroad trip to Brazil, working at the 2016
Summer Olympics.
We continue to add clinical education opportunities for students
locally and outside of the area and state, which include NCAA
Division I and II sports teams.
The Future:
The Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education has
announced that entry-level programs will now be taught at the
graduate level by 2020. We are anticipating the transition at FGCU
from an entry-level undergraduate program to a master’s program
in the next few years, which will allow the program to develop
new and exciting learning opportunities for our students.
We look forward to the chance to catch up with many of our AT
graduates at our first alumni event in Spring 2016.
Jason Craddock, EdD, ATC, LAT, CSCS
Director, Athletic Training Program
AT Laboratory in
Marieb Hall, Room 111
Faculty
Spotlight
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AT Faculty See Student Opportunities
as Difference at FGCU
t was not just the sunshine that lured Kelley Henderson to the FGCU
Athletic Training Program in 2012. Ms. Henderson serves as the AT
Program Clinical Education Coordinator, and says she chose to come to
FGCU because of the field time and clinical experience that was offered
to the students. “I liked the fact that the AT program here is a profession-
al program and focuses on AT immersion in the field.”
She has worked to add even more clinical opportunities for students,
which include the Air Force Academy, Colorado; St. Lawrence
University, New York; Nova Southeastern University and The Cleveland
Clinic both in Florida. AT Faculty, cont’d page 3
FGCU, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Athletic Training Program, Fall 2015
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Along with her coordinator responsibilities,
Ms, Henderson is the Advisor for the Eagles’
Sports Medicine Club. In the past 3 years, the
club’s team has finished in the top 5 of the South-
eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association Quiz Bowl
competition out of 19 to 25 teams. “I am very
proud of our team and we are looking forward to
attending the competition again in February,
2016. In the spring, we’re planning to practice
with an online-based system to improve our
chance at winning the competition,” she says.
In the next few years, Ms. Henderson is looking
forward to the transition of the undergraduate AT Program to a
Master’s program, which she says will provide a unique experience for
students. “I believe that the AT Master’s Program at FGCU will fill a
niche that will be very
d i f fe ren t f rom mo s t
programs.”
Besides teaching, she has
presented internationally at
the Joanna Briggs Institute in
Adelaide, Australia in 2013. She is also on the National Athletic Trainers’
Association Foundation Educational Resources Committee, and on
FGCU’s One Book, One Campus Committee and the Academic
Integrity/Student Conduct Committee.
Ms. Henderson received her Master of Science in Health
Promotion from Northwestern State University. She has worked as an
assistant athletic trainer at the University of West Florida and a physician
extender at Andrews Institute. She spent six years serving as Clinical
Coordinator and then Program Director for Athletic Training Education
at Texas Christian University. Currently, Ms. Henderson is working on her
doctoral degree, which she anticipates completing in