Athletic Trainer

Duties & Responsibilities:  Usually they check out the player’s injury to make sure that it isn’t serious. They decide whether or not to send the player to a physician to get the injury properly checked out. They also put to practice their medical strategies to help out the athlete.

Salary:  $35,000 - $75,000

Education:   degree from an accredited athletic training curriculum. Accredited programs include formal instruction in areas like injury/illness prevention, first aid and emergency care, assessment of injury/illness, human anatomy and physiology, therapeutic modalities, and nutrition. 

Reflection: Being an athletic trainer is something I would probably want to do. It seems like a fun job and seems time consuming. Most of the time when it comes down to working as a person that has to do with athletes I would probably not make that as my first choice, simply because I just don’t know nothing about sports nor the common injuries that come along with the certain sport.