PRINTER'S NO. 836
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.98
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY BRIGGS, REICHARD, SANCHEZ, FREEMAN, VENKAT, KHAN,
GIRAL, MALAGARI, MERSKI, ZIMMERMAN AND COOPER, MARCH 4, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, MARCH 4, 2025
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the month of March 2025 as "National Athletic
Training Month" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers' Society was
founded in 1976 as an organization committed to the education of
its members and the enhancement of the profession of athletic
training; and
WHEREAS, The 2025 theme for "National Athletic Training
Month" is "Champions in Health Care"; and
WHEREAS, The first "National Athletic Training Month" took
place in 2001 when it was established by the National Athletic
Trainers' Association; and
WHEREAS, Licensed athletic trainers have a long history of
providing quality health care based on evidence-based knowledge
and skills acquired through their nationally regulated
educational processes; and
WHEREAS, Athletic trainers are highly skilled health care
professionals who specialize in immediate acute and emergency
care, examination, assessment and diagnosis, injury prevention,
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injury and illness; and
WHEREAS, Athletic trainers take part in health care
administration, research, guidance and compassionate care for
all; and
WHEREAS, The National Athletic Trainers' Association
represents and supports more than 36,000 members of the athletic
training profession employed in many settings, including
professional sports, colleges and universities, high schools,
clinics and hospitals, corporate and industrial settings,
performing arts and every branch of the United States military
working together to promote and practice the profession of
athletic training, including more than 3,000 athletic trainers
in this Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania has the highest number of athletic
training education programs in the United States; and
WHEREAS, Leading organizations concerned with athletic
training and health care have united in a common commitment to
raise public awareness of the importance of the profession of
athletic training and the role of athletic trainers in the
provision of quality health care services; and
WHEREAS, Efforts such as these will improve health care for
patients and promote licensed athletic trainers as health
professionals; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives recognize the
month of March 2025 as "National Athletic Training Month" in
Pennsylvania and urge the residents of this Commonwealth to
learn more about the importance of athletic training.
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