Timeline: The History of Athletic Trainers

1784

The first person to start working on athletic trainers materials

Chuck Cramer was one of the first people to start making athletic training materials. He started making them after he sprained his ankle.

1881

The first person to work in this category

Athletic training in the United States began in October 1881 when Harvard University hired James Robinson to work conditioning their football team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletic_training

Jan 5, 1938

Original NATA

There was a brief National Athletic Training Association was founded in 1938. It was short lived because of World War II. There was no time to thoroughly develop the program so it failed. Many athletic trainers were used to help prepare soldiers for war. The pressures of the war pushed the career of athletic training back to a group of people used for training people in physical conditioning.

Jan 5, 1950

National Athletic Training Association

The National Athletic Training Association was founded in 1950 by about 200 athletic trainers who gathered in Kansas City to discuss the future of Athletic Training. The NATA has headquarters in Dallas, TX and they help set the standards for Athletic Trainers across the country. There is a membership of people all over the globe made up of about 30,00 people who help to advance the profession. March is also the National Athletic Training month.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1iOK5kf3X8

Jan 27, 2008

Examples

This season has been a bittersweet one for Utah Jazz athletic trainer Gary Briggs – a near record number of games have been missed due to injury, providing him with plenty of chances to prove his worth as a healer.

2020