Rachel Brown's career goal is to become a certified athletic trainer. She plans to achieve this by obtaining an entry-level master's degree in athletic training, as she did not study athletic training as an undergraduate. This will allow her to meet the graduate degree requirement for becoming a certified athletic trainer. She is interested in working with a sports team and enjoys the changing environments involved in athletic training.

1. Rachel Brown
Career Goal: Certified Athletic Trainer
Next step after Bachelors degree from Clemson
University is an entry level masters degree
program in athletic training.

2. What is an Athletic Trainer
 Definition:
 “Athletic Trainers (ATs) are health care professionals who
collaborate with physicians. The services provided by ATs
comprise prevention, emergency care, clinical diagnosis,
therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of injuries and
medical conditions. ATs work under the direction of physicians,
as prescribed by state licensure statutes.”
 Graduate school will be needed in order for me to become
and athletic trainer.
 Since I did not enter an Athletic training program as an
undergraduate, I will have to apply to an entry level master’s
degree program in Athletic Training.

3. History Of Athletic Training
 1950- National Athletic Trainer’s Association was
established
 1989- National Board of Certification put a certificate
program in place for placement-level athletic trainers
 1990- American Medical Association officially recognized
Athletic Training as an allied health profession
 Major programs in colleges today have standards and
guidelines to standardize what athletic trainers need to be
knowledgeable of. Degrees are offered in master’s and
doctorate degree levels.

4. What do Athletic Trainers do?
 There are 5 domains that the work of Athletic trainers
can be categorized into
 Injury/illness prevention and wellness protection
 Clinical evaluation and diagnosis
 Immediate and emergency care
 Treatment and rehabilitation
 Organizational and professional health and well being

5. Environment
 I am interested in working with a sports team as an Athletic
Trainer.
 Environment will change from indoors to out on the field or
wherever the team is practicing/playing.
 Traveling will most likely be involved depending on the level
of athletics.
 A changing environment is very intriguing to me because I
like to be doing different things in different places everyday. I
like when my day is changed up and I’m not in the same
routine day in and day out.

6. Employment
 Expected to grow 21 percent from 2014 to 2024
 Employment in 2014 : 25,400
 Projected employment in 2024: 30,800
 Median annual wage in May 2014 was $43,370 with the lowest
10 percent earning less than $27,610 and the highest 10
percent earning more than $67,070.
 Industries in which athletic trainers worked and average wage:
 Educational services; state, local, and private $46,240
 Hospitals; state, local, and private 44,610
 Spectator sports 41,960
 Ambulatory healthcare services 41,250
 Fitness and recreational sports centers 40,010

7. Possible Graduate Schools
 There are a limited number of graduate schools who offer an entry
level masters degree program in Athletic Training.
 Listed are just a few that I have researched and may be interested
in applying to.
 UNC Greensboro
 Florida Atlantic University
 Texas A&M
 Bloomsburg University
 Seton Hall University
 University of Tennessee Chattanooga
 Virginia Commonwealth University
 South Dakota State University
 Montanta State University- Billings

8. Why a good candidate
 I think that I would be a good candidate for a graduate
program in Athletic Training because I have a passion
for not only sports but making athlete's better within
their sport. I am currently a college athlete who is
injured and working to get better. I know what it is like
to work with an athletic trainer everyday because of the
rehabilitation I go through on a daily basis. Knowing the
environment in which they work in and seeing them
help athletes get better and stay healthy has been the
driving force behind my desire to pursue an allied
health career of this nature.

9. Skills/Qualities
 Compassion  concern for others wellbeing. You want the athlete to feel better.
 Dependable Don’t miss practices, classes or work. Show up on time and do
what is asked or needs to be done.
 Detail oriented  Not only see the whole picture but the little things that lead up
to or help build that larger picture.
 Independent able to work alone and with a team.
 Supportive being a good teammate. Being a leader and making the right
decisions
 Friendly can make friends wherever I go.
 Outgoing able to share ideas but also listen to others
 Practical know what is a realistic goal, especially when pertaining to injuries
and the outcome of them or timeline of getting better.
 Time management being a student athlete requires this greatly

10. O*Net Profiler
 My O*Net profiler Interest code was SEI and then my next
highest was R
 Interest code for Athletic Trainer is SRI so very similar
 Both of the games we played in class I got the code SRI
 I think that this code is very descriptive and reflective of me.
I was amazed how well it matched up but it also made me
excited that I am pursuing something that fits well with my
personality, skills and qualities.

11. Relevant Academics
 Exercise Physiology
 Theory and Prevention of Injuries
 Kinesiology
 Anatomy and Physiology I, II
 Medical Terminology
 Nutrition
 Various Health classes
 (These are the pre-requisites that I found were needed for
mostly all of the schools).

12. Conclusion
 Things I still need to do to be eligible to apply and be
accepted to most of the graduate programs
 Complete pre-requisite coursework with C or better
 Take GRE (most schools require you to be in or above
50th percentile)
 Complete clinical observation hours under a certified
athletic trainer (schools vary from 50hrs-200hrs)
 Complete baccalaureate degree
 Have GPA above 3.0

13. Sources
 http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/athletic-
trainers.htm#tab-1
 http://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/29-9091.00
 http://www.livestrong.com/article/270102-the-history-of-
athletic-training/