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SALT LAKE CITY -- A group meeting in Salt Lake City this weekend hopes student athletes would see them more often.
Athletic trainers from around the west are in town for several days of continued education. The Rocky Mountain Athletic Trainer's Association will host lectures on things like sports injuries from the simply painful to the life-threatening.
Lisa Walker, President of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Trainer's Association, is among those who think certified trainers should be available to student athletes, even in public schools. She says, "Because many of the injuries occur during practice, and although, if you have an athletic trainer, you only have one person, who, you can't be everywhere, but at least your closer and you know the kids."
Walker herself is an athletic trainer at Spanish Fork High School. Only a handful of states actually require schools to provide athletic trainers. Utah is not among them.
The National Athletic Trainer's Association, in fact, says only 42 percent of high school students have access to an athletic trainer. Walker admits it may be far from the minds of some administrators, especially in this economic crunch.
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