Sports Outreach Program

Sports Rehabilitation

AthletiCare’s Sports Outreach program provides Certified Athletic Trainers (ATC) to over 20 area high schools and colleges throughout the region. If injured, students receive immediate assessment and treatment on site. If necessary, athletes are quickly referred to medical specialists allowing for a quick and safe return to their sport.

Athletic Directors know the importance of having the right healthcare professionals on site when your children are involved with sports. AthletiCare Sports Outreach provides prevention, diagnosis, and intervention of emergency, acute and chronic medical conditions.

Performance Enhancement

Athletes of all ages have access to our Performance Enhancement Program (PEP), which strives to provide the highest quality performance programs designed with each individual athlete in mind.

Programs are designed to improve performance in the areas of:

agility
speed
strength
power
endurance
flexibility
core stability, and
balance.

They also reduce the probability of risk of injuries.

The Performance Enhancement Program is available to athletes of all ages and can assist the “weekend warrior” with improvements for their performance in softball, golf, volleyball, basketball, hockey, and other sports.

Download the Catholic Health Performance Enhancement Program brochure by clicking here.

Training Programs

In addition to athletic training coverage, AthletiCare Sports Outreach is an approved provider of First Aid and CPR training for coaches by NYS Education Department and Sportsmetric™ ACL Prevention Program.

Our certified athletic trainers are healthcare professionals who have earned a bachelor’s degree from an accredited athletic training curriculum. Accredited programs include formal instruction in areas such as:

injury/illness prevention
first aid and emergency care
assessment of injury/illness
human anatomy and physiology
therapeutic modalities
nutrition

Classroom learning is enhanced through clinical education experiences. More than 70 percent of certified athletic trainers hold at least a master’s degree.

AthletiCare Scholarship

Two scholarships, in the amount of $500 each, will be awarded to two graduating high school seniors for the 2009-2010 school year. Successful recipients must be either:

a graduating high school senior at one of the WNY high schools below who plans to pursue a degree in one of the allied health fields listed below, or,
a graduating high school senior whose parent/guardian is a Catholic Health associate and who plans to pursue a degree in one of the allied health fields listed below.

Eligible High Schools:

East Aurora
Frontier
Hamburg
JFK
Kenmore East
Kenmore West
Lackawanna
Lake Shore
Mt. Mercy Academy
Mount St. Mary Academy
Nardin Academy
Orchard Park
Sacred Heart
St. Francis
St. Mary's High School (Lancaster)
Bishop Timon/St. Jude
West Seneca East
West Seneca West

Eligible Fields of Study:

Athletic Training
Exercise Science
Physical Therapy
Physical Therapy Assistant
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy Assistant
Speech Therapy

Please click here to download the application.

Completed applications must be mailed and postmarked no later than March 31, 2010. Announcement of recipients will be made no later than May 7, 2010.

More Information

To learn the difference between a licensed Certified Athletic Trainer and a Personal Trainer, please download this document prepared by the National Athletic Trainers Association. (PDF)

For more information on our ATC services, Performance Enhancement Program, or First Aid and CPR training for Coaches, please email athleticarepep@chsbuffalo.org.