AIKEN S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - We’re just a handful of weeks away from the start of high school football season, and Aiken teams are still without full-time athletic trainers.
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This is the time where teams try to work out all the kinks before the real deal, but for some of our area programs - that’s an obstacle.
Aiken County Public Schools are managing even though they are still without trainers.
Athletic trainers wear a lot of hats during the season - they’re on hand for the bumps and bruises, emergencies, help coaches follow heat guidelines, changing practice times, required water breaks and more. All are stipulated by the high school league.
Without having their full-time surveillance or at least their presence - it creates an added difficulty coaches are trying to cope with.
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“It’s just one more thing that that we gotta do, but it kind of takes away from the focus of the actual coaching part, because you gotta stop and check this and stop and check that. But the the benefit of having one full time and having one to rehab to kids throughout the day, post scrimmages or post games, and having them around to treat and do stuff like that. It’s just kind of unmeasurable,” Interim Head Coach Heath Corley says.
Corley says that the district does make sure that they have a trainer available on Friday nights but for now in practice Aiken’s been providing EMTs and paying them by the hour.
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