Tory Lindley Talks Athletic Training Amid a Pandemic

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[Photo courtesy of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association]
[Photo courtesy of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association]

Look at the names on nearly any task force assembled to mitigate coronavirus spread in athlete populations and you'll find an athletic trainer near the top of the list. When sports return to daily life in America, it will largely be due to the ongoing efforts of ATs, who serve as the frontline healthcare professionals — and personal confidants — to athletes at every level of competition. AB senior editor Paul Steinbach asked Tory Lindley, senior associate athletic director for health, safety and performance at Northwestern University and current president of the National Athletic Trainers' Association, to describe the unprecedented challenge currently facing his profession.

When you took the NATA post, no one told you a pandemic was coming.
If someone would have even remotely suggested the kind of situation that we’re in… But what we’ve certainly tried to do is create as much opportunity as we can as a healthcare organization. This tends to open a lot of different doors that perhaps were only cracked before.

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