Wow have I ever been busy this summer. I didn't take spring classes this year and just focused on work. For May, June and July I worked as the Junior Athletic Therapist for the Calgary Junior Maverick's Rugby Club. They are the elite developmental Rugby team here in Calgary and only 1 of 2 teams in Alberta (Edmonton has the other team). It was a great opportunity since I got to work along side the Senior therapist and learned a lot of things from her. I really enjoyed learning how to assess and treat soft tissue injuries (hamstrings, IT bands, etc.) and learning athletic taping was great (especially from someone that was so experienced at it).
At first I didn't think I would be busy with this at all, but in the end it ended up consuming about 3-4 nights a week and at least every other weekend. Add this to my schedule of covering other Rugby teams as a back up AT and covering the Junior Rugby teams as an on field medic and it proved to be quite a demanding schedule for these past few months. However the Jr. Maverick's ended up losing the Western Finals vs. the Vancouver Wave mid July and my schedule since then has really eased up. Now I am just prepping for a Biology Field Class that I signed up for the Summer Semester (I'll talk about it a bit in my next post).
An interesting opportunity has come up recently. The U16 Alberta Rugby team is heading out to Ottawa in the middle of August (right after I'm done my field class) and needs an AT. So I put in my application for that and am awaiting for the response. I have worked for them once (just last week) and it seemed like they liked me. And hey, a free trip out to our Nations Capital can't be that bad.
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