Study: HS ADs Face Barriers to Hiring Athletic Trainers

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As youth and high school sports injuries continue to make headlines, a new study published in the Journal of Athletic Training revealed that high school athletic directors face challenges when it comes to staffing qualified athletic trainers.

Despite a best-practices recommendation from the Inter-Association Task Force for Preventing Sudden Death in Secondary School Athletics Programs that all high schools have an athletic trainer on staff, nearly two-thirds of high schools don’t have a full-time athletic trainer, and almost 30 percent have no athletic training services at all. 

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