HR 98 — A Resolution recognizing the month of March 2025 as "National Athletic Training Month" in Pennsylvania.

PRINTER'S NO.   836

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



           HOUSE RESOLUTION
              No. 98
                                                 Session of
                                                   2025

     INTRODUCED BY BRIGGS, REICHARD, SANCHEZ, FREEMAN, VENKAT, KHAN,
        GIRAL, MALAGARI, MERSKI, ZIMMERMAN AND COOPER, MARCH 4, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, MARCH 4, 2025


                                  A RESOLUTION
 1   Recognizing the month of March 2025 as "National Athletic
 2      Training Month" in Pennsylvania.
 3      WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers' Society was
 4   founded in 1976 as an organization committed to the education of
 5   its members and the enhancement of the profession of athletic
 6   training; and
 7      WHEREAS, The 2025 theme for "National Athletic Training
 8   Month" is "Champions in Health Care"; and
 9      WHEREAS, The first "National Athletic Training Month" took
10   place in 2001 when it was established by the National Athletic
11   Trainers' Association; and
12      WHEREAS, Licensed athletic trainers have a long history of
13   providing quality health care based on evidence-based knowledge
14   and skills acquired through their nationally regulated
15   educational processes; and
16      WHEREAS, Athletic trainers are highly skilled health care
17   professionals who specialize in immediate acute and emergency
18   care, examination, assessment and diagnosis, injury prevention,
 1   risk management, therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of
 2   injury and illness; and
 3      WHEREAS, Athletic trainers take part in health care
 4   administration, research, guidance and compassionate care for
 5   all; and
 6      WHEREAS, The National Athletic Trainers' Association
 7   represents and supports more than 36,000 members of the athletic
 8   training profession employed in many settings, including
 9   professional sports, colleges and universities, high schools,
10   clinics and hospitals, corporate and industrial settings,
11   performing arts and every branch of the United States military
12   working together to promote and practice the profession of
13   athletic training, including more than 3,000 athletic trainers
14   in this Commonwealth; and
15      WHEREAS, Pennsylvania has the highest number of athletic
16   training education programs in the United States; and
17      WHEREAS, Leading organizations concerned with athletic
18   training and health care have united in a common commitment to
19   raise public awareness of the importance of the profession of
20   athletic training and the role of athletic trainers in the
21   provision of quality health care services; and
22      WHEREAS, Efforts such as these will improve health care for
23   patients and promote licensed athletic trainers as health
24   professionals; therefore be it
25      RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives recognize the
26   month of March 2025 as "National Athletic Training Month" in
27   Pennsylvania and urge the residents of this Commonwealth to
28   learn more about the importance of athletic training.




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