There is
nothing easy about the reason that Mrs. White will be going She and her husband
have jobs that are among the toughest around – as athletic trainers. She is in
her 11th season at XCP and her husband has been at neighboring
Brophy Prep for more than three decades.
Athletic
trainers must have a great deal of energy and maintain it throughout the day,
every day, and sometimes on weekends.
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Xavier athletic trainer Laurie White.
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A typical
day has Mrs. White teaching some sports medicine classes, helping Xavier
athletes get ready for a game for practice by taping their knees, elbows,
ankles and nursing their wounds, advising the two college athletic trainers who
assist her during the year, being ready to spring into action at the games (both
with Xavier and visiting teams) and cleaning up afterward.
She also
finds time to serve in various capacities with the Arizona Athletic Trainers
Association, where she was elected to the organization’s Hall of Fame in 2015.
It is all
about service – serving her students, athletes, coaches, other athletic
trainers and her community in general.
In New
Orleans at the National Athletic Trainers Association annual symposium, she and
her husband will receive that organization’s Service Award together onstage. Nominations
are through the Arizona association.
“If an
athlete gets injured, it is rewarding to help get them back onto the field and
have them play healthy,’’ Mrs. White said. “We want to help them out in
whatever way we can.’’
Before
coming to Xavier, Mrs. White worked in the Phoenix Union High School District
(primarily Alhambra) and has had several of her students move on into the
athletic-training profession, which is not the same as a sports trainer that
supervises workouts at gyms, etc. One of Mrs. White’s most recent
athletic-training students at Xavier, Isabella Johnson, is completing her
freshman year at the University of Michigan.
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