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Andy Katz talks with Mary Vander Heiden, associate athletics director of Sports Medicine at UCF, Janet Lin Craft, athletic trainer and senior woman administrator at LaGrange College, and Adam Weyer, assistant athletics director for Sports Medicine at Lander University, about the role of athletic trainers on campus and services provided to support student-athletes.

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