-: My name is Kiana Young
and I'm the assistant athletic trainer
at the University of Toledo
for softball and women's golf.
So I work under the University of Toledo Athletics
to Sports Medicine Department and our goal is to provide
the best care to our student athletes of all sports
making sure that they're healthy
and if they're injured that they return
to their playing status fully and to the sport they enjoy.
So as an athletic trainer I provide coverage of games,
practices and lift as well as doing evaluations,
rehabilitation and treatments for our student athletes
and their injuries.
But essentially, we're there almost before, during,
and after athletic activities
and we're there for patient care.
So for example, if we have somebody who is experiencing
let's say, muscle tightness or soreness
we can do different treatments or care for them
and if they're injured, we do rehabilitation
but we also work with a sports medicine team
so it's not just myself as the athletic trainer.
We work with physicians,
nutritionist, sports psychologist
and on our staff we have an insurance coordinator
who also works for different parties.
So it's a multi collaborative approach.
I can walk you through the day in life
of a softball athlete.
So for example, Mondays there is lift at 6:15
and practice later on in the day at 1:45
to possibly around 4:30 PM.
So as an athletic trainer I'm there before
to set up water for hydration so that way
they're hydrated during
practices or lift.
And then if anyone needs any
sort of care before lift if they need to warm up properly
or do some of their rehabilitative exercises
to help them feel ready for lift.
Then after lift we do after treatments
the same way like whatever they need specifically,
we can attend to that.
And in between those hours,
depending on their class schedules,
we may schedule different rehabs
or if they have a long-term or postsurgical injury
they work with our physical therapist.
But that's why we also collaborate
and we are there for like all aspects of their care.