June 24, 2009
Athletic training major interning at top hockey camp
in Canada this summer
Menomonie native Amy Arndt, a senior athletic training major at UW-Stevens Point, is
spending much of her summer as an athletic trainer for one of Canada’s top hockey camps,
the Roger Neilson Hockey Camp in Aurora, Ontario.
“I hope this experience allows me to grow as a person and as an athletic trainer, and I am
very excited and grateful that UWSP has played a key role in giving me this opportunity,”
said Arndt. “There are hockey players here from all over the world. This gives me the
chance to communicate with and learn from many cultures, which I feel will help my career
development.”
Arndt is one of a growing group of athletic training professionals graduating from UWSP
since the program’s inception in 2000, according to Holly Schmies, athletic training
program director in the School of Health, Exercise Science and Athletics.
According to Schmies, the program became fully accredited in 2004 and now has six full-time
faculty members. In the past five years the program has had a 100 percent placement of its
graduates. Thirty-one students are currently in the program, the most in its young
history.
“This program’s reputation is growing and Scott’s internship with an NFL team speaks
volumes about where UWSP’s athletic training program is headed,” said Schmies. “Career
opportunities for our students are expanding, both with traditional athletic programs as
well as in more traditional corporations. Corporations are looking to hire athletic trainers
to help oversee overall employee health and fitness in the workplace.”
The mission of UWSP’s athletic training educational program is to provide students with a
unique and comprehensive education as it relates to the profession of athletic training.
The UWSP athletic training faculty and the sports medicine team are committed to educational
approaches that encompass didactic, clinical and field educational experiences that prepare
the athletic training student as an entry-level professional. Field experience opportunities
are provided in the collegiate, high school and clinical environments. The program’s Web
site has more information at
www.uwsp.edu/hesa/athtraining.
