36^th Annual SEATA Clinical Symposium & Members Meeting

Summary & Awards Pictures

The 2011 SEATA Clinical Symposium and Members Meeting was held March 11-13 at the Grand Hyatt Buckhead  in Atlanta, GA. SEATA combined its 36th Annual Clinical Symposium and Members Meeting with the 4th Annual Emory Sports Medicine Conference.  Approximately 462 athletic trainers, physicians and physical therapists joined together for a team approach to sports medicine. There were approximately 460 in attendance with out of district attendees from Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia.  There were 29 SEATA vendors present including our Corporate Partners: Bledsoe, Gatorade, and Mississippi Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center along with eight Emory vendors.

To quote one attendee "Not sure who gets the credit, but it was an excellent SEATA meeting.  The idea to link up with Emory and the amazing collaboration with them and the amount of material/education they provided to the conference was unparalleled.  This was, educationally speaking, the most informative AT conference I have ever attended be it state, regional, or national.  I certainly hope SEATA is able to maintain that relationship with Emory".

SEATA President MaryBeth Horodyski and the SEATA Executive Board continued their work to improve the SEATA organization with meetings Thursday afternoon and evening.

The annual meeting was organized by the Research and Education Committee (co-chaired by Cathy Brown and Mike Brunet) and the Emory Sports Medicine Center (Spero Karas, MD and Forrest Pecha, ATC).  Mini-courses and presentations were provided on numerous topics as detailed at http://www.seata.org/11csmm.htm.

The Tim Kerin Memorial Awards Banquet included scholarships, awards and the 2011 SEATA Hall of Fame class.  SEATA Scholarship recipients were presented followed by recognition of the numerous SEATA Award winners as detailed below. SEATA recognized and inducted Marisa Brunett, Ron Courson and Ken Wright to the SEATA Hall of Fame as the 2011 class..

The SEATA Annual Business Meeting including numerous updates from the SEATA Executive Board and the State Organizations as well as several informative reports by SEATA and NATA Committees.

SEATA Executive Board Meeting

Chrissy Farley, Nancy Cummings and Marisa Brunett provided significant assistance

Cathy Jackson of Emory & SEATA Presdient MaryBeth Horodyski

SEATA Vice President David Green does double duty coordinating exhibits and the meeting

Carrie Rahn receives SEATA Memorial Graduate Scholarship

Claire Graves receives Jerry Rhea/Atlanta Falcons Graduate Scholarship Award

Larry Starr, Keith Webster & Jim Thornton

Jerry Rhea & MaryBeth Horodyski

Eve Becker-Doyle & R.T. Floyd

The Newnan Mafia

Gerard White, MEd, ATC recieves SEATA Executive Board Service Award

Carl Mattacola, PhD, ATC, FNATA & Tim Uhl, PhD, ATC, PT, FNATA receive the SEATA 2011 Education/Administration Award

2011 SEATA Hall of Fame Inductees
Ken Wright, DA, ATC, Ron Courson, ATC,, PT, NREMT-I, CSCS & Marisa Brunett, MS, ATC, LAT

R.T. Floyd & Ray Castle

District Director R.T. Floyd, EdD, ATC, President MaryBeth Horodyski, EdD, ATC & Ray Castle presents the SEATA 2011 College/University Award to Keith Thompson, MS, ATC, CSCS on behalf of Jack Marucci, MS, ATC & LSU Athletic Training Staff

Chris King, ATC receives the SEATA 2011 High School Award with introduction by Bill McDonald, ATC

Melissa Thompson, PhD, ATC receives SEATA 2011 Backbone Award presented by Ray Castle, PhD, ATC

Felix "Buddy" Savoie,, M.D. receives the SEATA Jack C. Hughston Sportsmedicine Person of the Year Award presented by Mike Wilkinson, ATC

Ray Castle, PhD, ATC receives the Chuck Kimmel Award of Merit presented by John Anderson, ATC & Chuck Kimmel, ATC

Marisa Brunett, MS, ATC, LAT  is inducted into the SEATA Hall of Fame

Ron Courson, ATC,, PT, NREMT-I, CSCS is inducted into the SEATA Hall of Fame

Ken Wright, DA, ATC is inducted into the SEATA Hall of Fame

2011 SEATA Hall of Fame Inductees
Ken Wright, DA, ATC, Ron Courson, ATC,, PT, NREMT-I, CSCS & Marisa Brunett, MS, ATC, LAT

Ron Courson & Family

Chris Gillespie & Ron Courson