ALUMNI NEWSLETTER
ALUMNI NEWSLETTER Issue 2 May 2011 A Message From Jeff Smith ‘93, Head Athletic Trainer
Alumni and Friends, I hope everyone had a successful and healthy year and you are looking forward to a restful summer! The UMass Sports Medicine department had a great year! We got to enjoy visiting with many of our alumni and friends during our golf outing and at the NATA convention in Philadelphia last summer. These two events are getting bigger and bigger each year and we really enjoy catching up with everyone. Jenn and Lacy do a great job with the organization of these events. We hope that you might be able to join us this June 10th at our golf tournament at the Ledges in South Hadley and/or June 20th at the alumni gathering at NATA Convention in New Orleans! We said goodbye to Mike Welch and Jenae McCluskey and hello to our new grad assistants, Mark Lebeda and Nicole Hammond. We want to wish Mike and Jenae the very best and thank them for all they did for our program. We continue to have success in raising funds for continuing education and equipment. As you heard in our last newsletter, we moved into our new athletic training room space. It has been a tremendous transition and it has been a great year in the expanded space. With this new space, we have been looking to bring in new equipment for treatment and rehabilitation. In the last year, our entire full-time staff was able to learn the Graston Technique and we were able to purchase two sets of the instruments. We have been getting some great results with our student-athletes in helping them return to play. We will continue to look at different equipment or techniques to improve the quality of care and treatment for our student-athletes. We really appreciate all of the support our alumni and friends give us throughout the year! Many of you are able to participate in the golf tournament or alumni gathering. Some of you have not been able to participate in those outings but have still been great contributors to our program and we appreciate it so much. We thank all of you for that continued support that helps us get better and better each year. Have a great year and we look forward to seeing everyone throughout the year or this summer for some golf!!! Take Care, Jeff
Graduate Assistant Updates
As we said farewell to our two outgoing graduate assistants, we welcomed two more on board for the 2010-2011 year. Mike Welch ’10 and Jenae McCluskey ‘10 graduated from the Kinesiology program with Master of Science degrees in May of 2010 and will be moving on to the next phases of their careers. We are thrilled to announce that Mike was accepted into the Simmons College PhD program for Health Professions Education and is working part-time as an athletic trainer at Simmons College as well. He will attend Simmons College along with fellow alum Kristen Wilson ’08 who entered her third and final year of the program this past fall. Of his time at UMass, Mike said, “My two years at UMass were the best decision I made as a post-graduate athletic training student. The relationships I built, coupled with the knowledge and experience I gained, have given me opportunities that two years before, I did not anticipate having. UMass Sports Medicine is an organization that allowed me to establish myself as a health care professional, and ultimately, provided me with every tool necessary to excel in the world of Sports Medicine.” We are also very happy to announce that Jenae accepted a position as an assistant athletic trainer at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. began her duties alongside former UMass intern Heather Carr (2007-2008) who was hired around the same time. Jenae said, “The last two years I have spent at UMass have given me a tremendous opportunity to grow as a clinical athletic trainer and as an individual. My experience here has prepared me for my future as an athletic trainer at Merrimack College and beyond. I would like to truly thank everyone on the sports medicine staff for their support and willingness to help me become the knowledgeable and confident athletic trainer I am today.” Mike and Jenae will be sorely missed as enthusiastic and knowledgeable members of our staff and we wish them nothing but great success for the future! Mike and Jenae’s replacements certainly had big shoes
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We are thrilled that Alicia has already passed her BOC exam and is a fellow certified athletic trainer. Alicia will begin her duties in early August and we want to wish her a warm welcome to Amherst!
Sports Medicine Golf Outing Updates
L to R: Mike Welch ‘10, Jenae McCluskey ‘10, Lacy Gunn ‘09, and Chris Martin ‘09 at the 2010 Sports Medicine Golf Outing.
to fill! We would like to welcome Nicole Hammond and Mark Lebeda to our staff. Nicole is a native of Woburn, Massachusetts and a 2009 graduate of Westfield State College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Movement Science with a concentration in Athletic Training. Nicole worked with our men’s lacrosse team in the fall and the women’s lacrosse program year-round as well as our men’s swimming and diving teams. Nicole is a BOC certified athletic trainer. Mark hails from Chesterfield, New Jersey and is a graduate of Rowan University. He completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Athletic Training in 2009. Mark is also a BOC certified athletic trainer and spent the 2009-2010 year working at The College of New Jersey as an assistant athletic trainer. Mark took over for Mike and worked with our men’s soccer team in the fall and softball team this spring. Once again we extend a warm welcome to Nicole and Mark and wish them luck for the next two years! Nicole Lovejoy ‘11 is our lone second year graduate assistant athletic trainer that we will wish farewell to this year. Nicole did an outstanding job working with our women’s field hockey and men’s baseball teams throughout her two years here at UMass. Nicole recently completed and presented her Master’s project entitled “Preferences and Perceptions of the Graston Technique for the Treatment of Soft Tissue Injuries among Student-Athletes at the University of Massachusetts Amherst”. Nicole has plans to attend this years’ NATA Convention in New Orleans and will be on the hunt for a job for next year. We wish Nicole all the best for a successful career and thank her for her outstanding service over the last two years! Nicole’s replacement comes to us from beautiful upstate New York. Alicia Caswell, a native of Wakefield Rhode Island and 2011 graduate of Ithaca College will join us for the 20112012 year. Alicia will take over working with our new first year head field hockey coach Carla Tagliente and her team and she is also very excited to work with the baseball team.
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With this year’s Ninth Annual Sports Medicine Golf Outing approaching fast, we are very much looking forward to June 10th, as last year’s golf tournament was an incredible success. This year’s tournament will be held on Friday, June 10th at the Ledges Golf Club in South Hadley, MA. Foursomes are filling up fast, so please contact Jenn Brodeur to reserve your spot today! $100 ($400 per foursome) gets you 18 holes with a cart, lunch at the turn, a catered dinner at the end of the day, and a tournament gift. Not a golfer? That’s okay, we also have numerous options for sponsorships as well as monetary and merchandise donations. For $45, you can join us for dinner and post-dinner festivities including the awards ceremony and raffle. For sponsorship options please visit the UMass Sports Medicine website at: UMassAthletics.com/school-bio/training.html. Thanks to a fantastic effort by Jenn Brodeur, our chairperson for the Sports Medicine Golf Outing, the Eighth Annual event held on June 11th, 2010 was a success. As always, we want to thank not only our returning alums who played with us but also all of the friends, families, and UMass staff members who made the tournament such a great event. We had 32 groups comprised of 127 golfers, an all-time high number of participants. Also, a very sincere thank you goes out to our corporate sponsors who made the event possible with their generous donations, including Coca-Cola, Drs. Adam and Jeannette Wilburn of Wilburn Chiropractic, Hampshire Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Surgi-Care, and Jim Laughnane ‘61, former head athletic trainer at UMass.
Save The Date! June 10, 2011 UMass Sports Medicine Golf Tournament Contact Jenn Brodeur 413-577-2901 [email protected]
L to R: Head Athletic Trainer Jeff Smith ‘93 emcees the awards ceremony and raffle at last year’s golf outing.
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Alumni Updates
L to R: Kristen Wilson ‘08 and Jenn Brodeur, Assistant Athletic Trainer at Tir na nOg in Philadelphia, PA.
We are also so appreciative of our 27 hole sponsors who made a monetary donation. And lastly, we had one of the best auctions yet with several products and services being donated by many of our sports medicine friends and supporters as well as several other members of the UMass athletic department.
Alumni At Convention
Each year at the NATA Convention, we love to take the opportunity to get all of our alums together to catch up with old friends and new news. We are very excited for this year’s convention in New Orleans. Please join us at 8 PM Monday, June 20th, 2011 at Mulate’s on 201 Julia Street for our annual alumni gathering. This year’s event will mark the fourth year in a row that we have gathered together and each year we are thrilled to see more and more people. Please help us spread the word to our fellow alums. We hope to see you there! Last year’s event, held on June 17th, 2010 at Tir na nOg in Philadephia marked the third annual alumni gathering and the most successful event yet with tremendous attendance. We want to extend a sincere thank you to all of our alums who attended. It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces! Please remember to check our Facebook page for information and updates regarding the alumni gathering.
• Paul Cacolice ‘88/’10 was named an Instructor in the Athletic Training Education program at Slippery Rock University (PA). He is currently pursuing his Doctorate in Rehabilitation Sciences at Duquesne University. We wish Paul the best of luck in his new endeavor! • Kenan (Harrison) Guilmette ‘04 and her husband Dave welcomed a beautiful baby girl Sophia last year. Congratulations to the new parents! • Meghan (Peduto) Nicchi ‘06 was named Head Athletic Trainer at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. Congratulations to Meghan! • Pete Olsen ‘07 was named Vice President of Sports & Competition for the Speical Olympics of Montana. Pete is also about halfway through a year-long deployment to Afghanistan as a Medical Service Corps Officer with the United States Army. We congratulate Pete on his new position and thank him for his service. • Congratulations to Amanda Wolf ‘04 who will get married next month to Jason Kisser. We wish the happy couple all the best!
Follow UMass Sports Medicine on Facebook! Go to Facebook.com/UMassSportsMedicine and click the “LIKE” button to receive news and updates on UMass Sports Medicine and its fellow alums!
2011 NATA Convention June 19-22, 2011 New Orleans Morial Convention Center New Orleans, La. Go to NATA.org for information.
L to R: Simon Rosenblum, Leslie (Coffman) Rosenblum ‘02, and Adam Smith ‘02 at Tir na nOg in Philadelphia, PA.
Do you have news or info for the UMass Sports Medicine Newsletter? Contact: Lacy Gunn 413-545-4980 [email protected]
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Alumni and Friends, I hope everyone had a successful and healthy year and you are looking forward to a restful summer! The UMass Sports Medicine department had a great year! We got to enjoy visiting with many of our alumni and friends during our golf outing and at the NATA convention in Philadelphia last summer. These two events are getting bigger and bigger each year and we really enjoy catching up with everyone. Jenn and Lacy do a great job with the organization of these events. We hope that you might be able to join us this June 10th at our golf tournament at the Ledges in South Hadley and/or June 20th at the alumni gathering at NATA Convention in New Orleans! We said goodbye to Mike Welch and Jenae McCluskey and hello to our new grad assistants, Mark Lebeda and Nicole Hammond. We want to wish Mike and Jenae the very best and thank them for all they did for our program. We continue to have success in raising funds for continuing education and equipment. As you heard in our last newsletter, we moved into our new athletic training room space. It has been a tremendous transition and it has been a great year in the expanded space. With this new space, we have been looking to bring in new equipment for treatment and rehabilitation. In the last year, our entire full-time staff was able to learn the Graston Technique and we were able to purchase two sets of the instruments. We have been getting some great results with our student-athletes in helping them return to play. We will continue to look at different equipment or techniques to improve the quality of care and treatment for our student-athletes. We really appreciate all of the support our alumni and friends give us throughout the year! Many of you are able to participate in the golf tournament or alumni gathering. Some of you have not been able to participate in those outings but have still been great contributors to our program and we appreciate it so much. We thank all of you for that continued support that helps us get better and better each year. Have a great year and we look forward to seeing everyone throughout the year or this summer for some golf!!! Take Care, Jeff
Graduate Assistant Updates
As we said farewell to our two outgoing graduate assistants, we welcomed two more on board for the 2010-2011 year. Mike Welch ’10 and Jenae McCluskey ‘10 graduated from the Kinesiology program with Master of Science degrees in May of 2010 and will be moving on to the next phases of their careers. We are thrilled to announce that Mike was accepted into the Simmons College PhD program for Health Professions Education and is working part-time as an athletic trainer at Simmons College as well. He will attend Simmons College along with fellow alum Kristen Wilson ’08 who entered her third and final year of the program this past fall. Of his time at UMass, Mike said, “My two years at UMass were the best decision I made as a post-graduate athletic training student. The relationships I built, coupled with the knowledge and experience I gained, have given me opportunities that two years before, I did not anticipate having. UMass Sports Medicine is an organization that allowed me to establish myself as a health care professional, and ultimately, provided me with every tool necessary to excel in the world of Sports Medicine.” We are also very happy to announce that Jenae accepted a position as an assistant athletic trainer at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. began her duties alongside former UMass intern Heather Carr (2007-2008) who was hired around the same time. Jenae said, “The last two years I have spent at UMass have given me a tremendous opportunity to grow as a clinical athletic trainer and as an individual. My experience here has prepared me for my future as an athletic trainer at Merrimack College and beyond. I would like to truly thank everyone on the sports medicine staff for their support and willingness to help me become the knowledgeable and confident athletic trainer I am today.” Mike and Jenae will be sorely missed as enthusiastic and knowledgeable members of our staff and we wish them nothing but great success for the future! Mike and Jenae’s replacements certainly had big shoes
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We are thrilled that Alicia has already passed her BOC exam and is a fellow certified athletic trainer. Alicia will begin her duties in early August and we want to wish her a warm welcome to Amherst!
Sports Medicine Golf Outing Updates
L to R: Mike Welch ‘10, Jenae McCluskey ‘10, Lacy Gunn ‘09, and Chris Martin ‘09 at the 2010 Sports Medicine Golf Outing.
to fill! We would like to welcome Nicole Hammond and Mark Lebeda to our staff. Nicole is a native of Woburn, Massachusetts and a 2009 graduate of Westfield State College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Movement Science with a concentration in Athletic Training. Nicole worked with our men’s lacrosse team in the fall and the women’s lacrosse program year-round as well as our men’s swimming and diving teams. Nicole is a BOC certified athletic trainer. Mark hails from Chesterfield, New Jersey and is a graduate of Rowan University. He completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Athletic Training in 2009. Mark is also a BOC certified athletic trainer and spent the 2009-2010 year working at The College of New Jersey as an assistant athletic trainer. Mark took over for Mike and worked with our men’s soccer team in the fall and softball team this spring. Once again we extend a warm welcome to Nicole and Mark and wish them luck for the next two years! Nicole Lovejoy ‘11 is our lone second year graduate assistant athletic trainer that we will wish farewell to this year. Nicole did an outstanding job working with our women’s field hockey and men’s baseball teams throughout her two years here at UMass. Nicole recently completed and presented her Master’s project entitled “Preferences and Perceptions of the Graston Technique for the Treatment of Soft Tissue Injuries among Student-Athletes at the University of Massachusetts Amherst”. Nicole has plans to attend this years’ NATA Convention in New Orleans and will be on the hunt for a job for next year. We wish Nicole all the best for a successful career and thank her for her outstanding service over the last two years! Nicole’s replacement comes to us from beautiful upstate New York. Alicia Caswell, a native of Wakefield Rhode Island and 2011 graduate of Ithaca College will join us for the 20112012 year. Alicia will take over working with our new first year head field hockey coach Carla Tagliente and her team and she is also very excited to work with the baseball team.
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With this year’s Ninth Annual Sports Medicine Golf Outing approaching fast, we are very much looking forward to June 10th, as last year’s golf tournament was an incredible success. This year’s tournament will be held on Friday, June 10th at the Ledges Golf Club in South Hadley, MA. Foursomes are filling up fast, so please contact Jenn Brodeur to reserve your spot today! $100 ($400 per foursome) gets you 18 holes with a cart, lunch at the turn, a catered dinner at the end of the day, and a tournament gift. Not a golfer? That’s okay, we also have numerous options for sponsorships as well as monetary and merchandise donations. For $45, you can join us for dinner and post-dinner festivities including the awards ceremony and raffle. For sponsorship options please visit the UMass Sports Medicine website at: UMassAthletics.com/school-bio/training.html. Thanks to a fantastic effort by Jenn Brodeur, our chairperson for the Sports Medicine Golf Outing, the Eighth Annual event held on June 11th, 2010 was a success. As always, we want to thank not only our returning alums who played with us but also all of the friends, families, and UMass staff members who made the tournament such a great event. We had 32 groups comprised of 127 golfers, an all-time high number of participants. Also, a very sincere thank you goes out to our corporate sponsors who made the event possible with their generous donations, including Coca-Cola, Drs. Adam and Jeannette Wilburn of Wilburn Chiropractic, Hampshire Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Surgi-Care, and Jim Laughnane ‘61, former head athletic trainer at UMass.
Save The Date! June 10, 2011 UMass Sports Medicine Golf Tournament Contact Jenn Brodeur 413-577-2901 [email protected]
L to R: Head Athletic Trainer Jeff Smith ‘93 emcees the awards ceremony and raffle at last year’s golf outing.
UMass Sports Medicine Alumni Newsletter
Alumni Updates
L to R: Kristen Wilson ‘08 and Jenn Brodeur, Assistant Athletic Trainer at Tir na nOg in Philadelphia, PA.
We are also so appreciative of our 27 hole sponsors who made a monetary donation. And lastly, we had one of the best auctions yet with several products and services being donated by many of our sports medicine friends and supporters as well as several other members of the UMass athletic department.
Alumni At Convention
Each year at the NATA Convention, we love to take the opportunity to get all of our alums together to catch up with old friends and new news. We are very excited for this year’s convention in New Orleans. Please join us at 8 PM Monday, June 20th, 2011 at Mulate’s on 201 Julia Street for our annual alumni gathering. This year’s event will mark the fourth year in a row that we have gathered together and each year we are thrilled to see more and more people. Please help us spread the word to our fellow alums. We hope to see you there! Last year’s event, held on June 17th, 2010 at Tir na nOg in Philadephia marked the third annual alumni gathering and the most successful event yet with tremendous attendance. We want to extend a sincere thank you to all of our alums who attended. It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces! Please remember to check our Facebook page for information and updates regarding the alumni gathering.
• Paul Cacolice ‘88/’10 was named an Instructor in the Athletic Training Education program at Slippery Rock University (PA). He is currently pursuing his Doctorate in Rehabilitation Sciences at Duquesne University. We wish Paul the best of luck in his new endeavor! • Kenan (Harrison) Guilmette ‘04 and her husband Dave welcomed a beautiful baby girl Sophia last year. Congratulations to the new parents! • Meghan (Peduto) Nicchi ‘06 was named Head Athletic Trainer at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. Congratulations to Meghan! • Pete Olsen ‘07 was named Vice President of Sports & Competition for the Speical Olympics of Montana. Pete is also about halfway through a year-long deployment to Afghanistan as a Medical Service Corps Officer with the United States Army. We congratulate Pete on his new position and thank him for his service. • Congratulations to Amanda Wolf ‘04 who will get married next month to Jason Kisser. We wish the happy couple all the best!
Follow UMass Sports Medicine on Facebook! Go to Facebook.com/UMassSportsMedicine and click the “LIKE” button to receive news and updates on UMass Sports Medicine and its fellow alums!
2011 NATA Convention June 19-22, 2011 New Orleans Morial Convention Center New Orleans, La. Go to NATA.org for information.
L to R: Simon Rosenblum, Leslie (Coffman) Rosenblum ‘02, and Adam Smith ‘02 at Tir na nOg in Philadelphia, PA.
Do you have news or info for the UMass Sports Medicine Newsletter? Contact: Lacy Gunn 413-545-4980 [email protected]
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