ATSU, Mesa Youth Football League chosen for pilot test to improve youth sports safety
Posted: September 4, 2014
A.T. Still University’s Athletic Training (AT) program has been selected by MomsTEAM Institute, a leading youth sports health and safety think tank and watchdog group, for a pilot program of MomsTEAM’s innovative SmartTeam™ initiative.
The pilot program will focus on sports injury and concussion risk management associated with the Mesa Youth Football League. ATSU marks one of only six programs nationwide.
Modeled on the community-centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM’s PBS documentary, “The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer”, the Mesa Youth Football League will be coordinated by ATSU’s Athletic Training Director, Tamara McLeod, PhD, ATC, FNATA, and students of the AT program.
Over the course of the fall 2014 football season, Dr. McLeod and ATSU students will provide parents, coaches and officials in the Mesa Youth Football League program with ongoing education on how they and their child’s program can help keep them safe.
Read more at MomsTEAM.org.