National Athletic Training Month is held every March by the National Athletic Trainers' Association in order to spread awareness about the important work of athletic trainers.
Here at Hawai'i Hilo, the sports medicine department is headed by Kensei Gibbs with Kelsie Espiritu-Tanabe and assistance from Jake Rolbiecki and Mark Samonsky. The Vulcans also get additional help from eight students majoring in Kinesiology & Exercise Sciences.
As health care professionals, athletic trainers are highly educated and dedicated to the job at hand and are found in high schools and colleges, corporations, professional sports, the military, performing arts, clinics, hospitals and physician offices.
Hawai'i Hilo athletics extends our warmest aloha to all athletic trainers for their time and dedication in helping to take care of their student-athletes every day.
The slogan for 2023 was: "There's an AT for That."
