Mission Statement:
Sports Medicine Advisory Committee (SMAC) promotes safe participation on sports and all aspects of health and wellness. The SMAC shall advise NEPSAC concerning sports medicine issues as they relate to rules writing, as well as other programs of NEPSAC. It will provide guidance and direction to NEPSAC and its membership relative to current sports medicine issues. This committee will collaborate with NEPSAC to educate its constituency concerning sports medicine and safety issues of general concern to the NEPSAC membership.
The information contained in this section of the NEPSAC website is for informational purposes only. Each institution needs develop their own policies specific to the institution.
SMAC Document Disclaimer:
The SMAC publishes these documents as a service to promote the awareness of certain issues to NEPSAC Members. The information contained in the position statement is neither exhaustive nor exclusive to all circumstances or individuals. The SMAC advises its members and others to carefully and independently consider each of the recommendations (including the applicability of same to any particular circumstance or individual). These documents should not be relied upon as an independent basis for care, but rather as a resource. The NEPSAC SMAC reserves the right to rescind or modify these documents at any time.
SMAC Recommendation for Hockey – 2024-2025 Season
SMAC Inclement Weather Guidelines
Neutral Site Playoffs: Medical/Athletic Trainer Coverage Guidelines for NEPSAC
Football Practice Contact Policy Proposal
Helmets and Mouthguards in Hockey (revised 2023)
GRANT OPPORTUNITIES:
Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association
https://goeata.org/research_home.htm#grant_info
National Athletic Trainers’ Association
https://natafoundation.org/research/grant-opportunities/
Michael Vincent Sage Dragonheart Foundation, Inc
http://www.defibandlive.org/hp-highlights/save-a-life/
CONTINUING EDUCATION:
Headway Foundation – Free Webinars
Free CEUS From Medco Sports Medicine
“Heads Up” on Concussion: Free Online Courses for ATCs
Gatorade Sports Science Institute
NEPSAC Athletic Trainers – State and National Board and Committee Positions
Jeff Nadeau, MS, ATC
St. George’s School
Rhode Island Athletic Training Association (RIATA) – President
NATA District 1 Executive Board
Valerie Webber, MS, ATC
St. Andrews School
NATA District 1 Chair – Secondary School Athletic Trainers’ Committee (SSATC)
RIATA Past President
Art Entwistle, MEd, ATC, LAT, RAA
Rocky Hill School
RIATA Co-Chair – Secondary School AT Committee
Frank Mastrangelo, CMAA, LAT, ATC, EMT
Lawrence Academy
NATA District 1 – Chair Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE)
Laura Darby McNally
Middlesex School
NATA District 1 – District 1 – ATs Care Committee (ATsC)
Don Bagnall, ATC, LAT
Hopkins School
NATA Liaison to American Academy of Pediatrics
Jessica Testani, MS, LAT, ATC
Watkinson School
Connecticut Athletic Trainers’ Association ( CCATA) – Chair – Secondary School Committee
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