Auggie Athletic Training
AUGSBURG HEAD ATHLETIC TRAINER MISSY STRAUCH
-- CLICK
HERE
AUGSBURG ASSISTANT ATHLETIC TRAINER JEN AMBORN -- CLICK
HERE
AUGSBURG ASSISTANT ATHLETIC TRAINER BECKY MCCATHIE -- CLICK HERE
AUGSBURG ATHLETIC PHYSICIANS -- CLICK HERE
AUGSBURG VISITING TEAM GUIDE ATHLETIC TRAINING
INFORMATION -- CLICK
HERE
Augsburg College
student-athletes have access to a complete athletic training facility
staffed by an experienced group of professional athletic
trainers and student assistants. The training room is located in the lower level of Si Melby
Hall.

Augsburg College 2008-09 Student Sports Medicine Assistants: front row (from left) -- Kaaren Warnes, Domonique Narow, Jackie Fritz, Stacia Francis, Laura Harms; back row (from left) -- Ashley Thoeny, Marissa Lindback, Aaron Staples, Kali James.
Augsburg Athletic Training Web Links
Minnesota Athletic Trainers Association
(MATA) | College Athletic Trainers Society |
Minnesota Sports Medicine | Twin Cities Orthopedic | Institute
for Athletic Medicine |
National Athletic Trainers Association
(NATA) | Great Lakes Athletic
Trainers Association (GLATA) |
National Athletic Trainers Association
Board of Certification | ESPN.com
Training Room |
American Physical Therapy Association
| American College of Sports
Medicine |
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
| The Physician and Sports
Medicine Online |
Journal of Athletic
Training | American Medical
Association | American Red
Cross |
Guide for Visiting Teams -- Athletic
Training
-- In accordance with NCAA and MIAC
guidelines, a Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC) will be on the sidelines
for all Augsburg varsity home events. Augsburg student assistants,
functioning as First Aiders, will be assisting ATCs and visiting teams
without medical staff. Ice, water and emergency equipment will be
provided and available at all athletic events.
-- Please bring your own athletic training
supplies and water bottles. No cups will be provided (MIAC rules)
-- There are electrical modalities available in the
training room with proper documentation from a Certified Athletic
Trainer (provided one is not traveling with the team).
-- Teams may use the Augsburg training room for taping
and treatments as needed. Taping tables are also available in visiting
team locker rooms.
-- The closest hospital to Augsburg is the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview-Riverside, located across Riverside
Avenue from the Augsburg athletic facilities. Trauma centers for emergency
transport are at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview-University, located across the Mississippi
River from Augsburg at the campus of the University of Minnesota;
and the Hennepin County Medical Center,
located in downtown Minneapolis.
-- Augsburg head athletic trainer is Missy Strauch -- 612-330-1310, strauch@augsburg.edu.
Augsburg assistant athletic trainers are Jen Amborn -- 612-330-1108, amborn@augsburg.edu; and Becky McCathie -- 612-330-1008, mccathie@augsburg.edu.
-- Medical services are provided through Minnesota Sports Medicine (formerly Minneapolis
Sports Medicine Center). Director of Orthopedic Services is Dr. Greg Lervick of Twin Cities Orthopedic. Augsburg
uses the services of two team physicans -- Dr. B.J.
Anderson with Boynton Health Service and Dr. Brad Moser of Twin Cities Orthopedic. Team Chiropractor is Dr. Rachel Franklin-Kruse of Freestone Chiropractic.
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Augsburg College, a college of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
is a member of the Minnesota
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) and the National
Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III.
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