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PRINTER'S NO. 1485
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No. 239
Session of
2026
INTRODUCED BY MUTH, HUGHES, MARTIN, SANTARSIERO, VOGEL, FONTANA,
KANE, PHILLIPS-HILL, HAYWOOD, CULVER AND STREET,
MARCH 5, 2026
REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, MARCH 5, 2026
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the month of March 2026 as "National Athletic
Training Month" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers' Society was
founded 50 years ago in 1976 as an organization committed to the
education of its members and the enhancement of the profession
of athletic training; and
WHEREAS, The 2026 theme for "National Athletic Training
Month" is "Care You Can Count On"; and
WHEREAS, The first "National Athletic Training Month" took
place in 2001 when it was established by the National Athletic
Trainers' Association; and
WHEREAS, Licensed athletic trainers have a long history of
providing quality health care based on evidence-based knowledge
and skills acquired through their nationally regulated
educational processes; and
WHEREAS, Athletic trainers are highly skilled health care
professionals who specialize in immediate acute and emergency
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care, examination, assessment and diagnosis, injury prevention,
risk management, therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of
injury and illness; and
WHEREAS, Athletic trainers take part in health care
administration, research, guidance and compassionate care for
all; and
WHEREAS, The National Athletic Trainers' Association
represents and supports more than 36,000 members of the athletic
training profession employed in many settings, including
professional sports, colleges and universities, high schools,
clinics and hospitals, corporate and industrial settings,
performing arts and every branch of the United States military,
working together to promote and practice the profession of
athletic training, including more than 3,000 athletic trainers
in this Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania has the highest number of athletic
training education programs in the United States; and
WHEREAS, Leading organizations concerned with athletic
training and health care have united in a common commitment to
raise public awareness of the importance of the profession of
athletic training and the role of athletic trainers in the
provision of quality health care services; and
WHEREAS, Efforts such as these will improve health care for
patients and promote licensed athletic trainers as health care
professionals; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate recognize the month of March 2026
as "National Athletic Training Month" in Pennsylvania; and be it
further
RESOLVED, That the Senate urge the residents of this
Commonwealth to learn more about the importance of athletic
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