By Matt Browning
When Campus High School offered Morgan Parker a chance at taking sports medicine classes, she jumped at the opportunity.
“These classes are more than anatomy and physiology in my opinion,” Parker said. “You get to learn about taping athletes, how to assess injuries, and special tests to see if there is an injury. When I first started high school, I did not know much about this at all, but I knew I wanted to work in the medical field one day. So that led me to taking these classes and getting to where I am today.”
Being a student trainer, Parker has several responsibilities throughout the week – no matter what sports season it is.
“Every week night we have football and volleyball practice during the fall season,” Parker said. “Once fall season is over we go into winter sports, which are basketball and wrestling. We currently have seven trainers not playing any sports, so we all get to have a day off during the week. All trainers meet in the training room after school and get your athletes to practice.”
These few years as a high school trainer are just the beginning for Parker and involvement in sports medicine.
“My future plans are to go to WSU and study Health Science, then apply to their Physical Therapy program,” Parker said. “I think that being an athletic trainer has shown me how much I love to help people. Athletic training has led me to the Physical Therapy path that I have chosen.”
