Building a Community with Athletic Trainer Sarah Turner

Madam Athlete

On today’s episode, I’m talking to secondary school athletic trainer Sarah Turner about building a community.
In addition to working as a solo athletic trainer at her high school, Sarah is the Director of Athletic Training Services at Wabash General Hospital Sports Medicine in southern Illinois. Her team covers numerous high schools and community colleges and provides big-city care over a large rural area. We talk about how Sarah has helped to elevate the standing of athletic trainers in her health system and negotiate their pay and benefits. Sarah is not just building a professional community of athletic trainers and sports medicine professionals, but she’s reaching local student-athletes where it matters most and helping them form lifelong ties with health care.
We talk about:

• Gaining the experience you need to move forward in your career by doing, not just watching.
• Finding your tribe and making sure your group is supporting you and your vision.
• Joining professional organizations as a way to both network and fight back against the isolation that comes with some jobs.

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