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Sports Medicine & Eligibility

Lake Highland athletic room

Dedicated and Qualified Athletic Trainers

The Lake Highland Athletic Training staff is committed to providing student-athletes with the highest quality health care. Staff is available to improve athletic performance following injuries and to increase students’ overall well-being through the Sports Medicine program.

LHP’s athletic trainers are health care professionals who collaborate with physicians to optimize an athlete’s participation in sports, work, and life. In addition to on-site care, one LHP athletic trainer attends all games to serve our student-athletes in real time on the field.

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As health care providers, the athletic training staff is educated and qualified to:

Provide on-site recognition, evaluation, and immediate treatment of injuries and illnesses

Facilitate rehabilitation and reconditioning after injury

Determine an athlete’s readiness to participate in sports

Promote safe and appropriate practices and competitions


The practice of athletic training encompasses:

Examination and diagnosis of neuromusculoskeletal conditions and certain medical conditions

Treatment and rehabilitation of emergent, acute, subacute, and chronic neuromusculoskeletal conditions

Injury and illness prevention strategies

Lake Highland athletics facility.
Gina Martin Training Room

Located inside the Weng Family Gymnasium, this 1,400-square-foot facility provides our student-athletes with on-site injury prevention, rehabilitation, and care. The Gina Martin Training Room is equipped with an electronic injury management sign-in system, cold tub, two E-Stim machines, a therapeutic ultrasound machine, instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization tools, cupping tools, and NormaTec equipment for upper and lower extremities.

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Meffe Athletic Training Room

A satellite facility located inside the Meffe Family Field House, the Meffe Athletic Training Room provides on-site care during all football, soccer, lacrosse, and track and field practices and competitions. It is equipped with a cold whirlpool, ultrasound/electronic stimulation machine, hydrocollator heat packs, two treatment tables, and two taping tables.

Athletic Trainer Team

Kathleen Simone

Assistant Athletic Trainer
ksimone@lhps.org
407-206-1900 x1219

We invite alumni and other college students looking for clinical observation hours to inquire about how to obtain those hours serving LHP. Please contact Scott Schenker at sschenker@lhps.org, 407-206-1900 x1218, to learn more.