The Daily Herald from Provo, Utah • 16

Hi TIIK HKIUI.I) I'idvo. I Sun.kiv Nuvwiilwi a. Vj" ed Another male Bastion-Sports Medicine il'i'Ii In this so-called macho, shot and-beer town, aM'ther indilintiiilly male bastion the aihh'tio training room has fallen into enemy hands withniit a word of proles! on the pad ol the victims. The sane thing is happening on many college campuses across Hie country, and in the process, women are finding their May ii-lo a profession almost totallv closed to them less than 10 years ago sports medicine. At the city's Carnegie-Mellon campus, visiiing coaches sometimes find it hard to mask their surprise when they a-k the services a trainer and then see a trim blonde run to their bench from across the field.

Hut l.eesa I a senior majoring in physical education and athletic training at hit and interning at CMC. has vet to a rude rrtnaik or catcall from the lootb.d! plavers and cross-coin. try runners she niiiiCtels At Pit? Stadium, the p'avcrs regularly share their training room with lemnles who a morning spoils (dime for area athletes conducted by I)r James McMasters. an orthopedic siugi-on who heads the school's 1 Jivisioi of Sports Medicine And Margie IVendhm'. the trainer for women's athletics at Pitt, finds many mal" athletes including swimmers, gymnasts and water polo players pief'T h'-r facility at Ti -if il il over the all-male facility just across the street in I-'itygerald Field House "I think it's because I've established reputation mv traoung room," How tune's nave h.i.oged' In theie was j.isl one woman adiietic trainer certified in her field by the presiigious National Athletic Tiao'jrls Association, accuiding to I McLean, chainn.in of tne board of certilioatiori lor the NAT A Three sears later, he said, the number of certihed female trainers had grown to the grand number of three, though 120 new trainers had been certified by the A in that period of time Not surprisingly, there were few campus training facilities fur female athletes endling u-1 many females went tij private doctors for the kind of treatment male athletes got lor nee Hut around 1974, the situation started to ch.uige That year.

McLean said, a doen women trainers were certified by the NAT A In he said. ''20 per cent of all applicants ere women And from 1975 on. we've had quite a number of women certified probably about 50 in the past ear Tins term alone, tnere are 10 women, im hiding Leesa DiBartola. studying to become athletic trainers in Pitt's Division of Sports Medicine, endling said the profession was forced open by the rapid growth of women's athletics. Major colleges could not ignore the need of females for the type of day-to-day care, ranging from first aid to rehabilitative therapy, ottered male athletes.

Women trainers were hired to staff female training rooms. 'I don't think major colleges are to the point where they will hire women as trainers for men's programs," endling says. liut the kind of attitude that pervaded when Wendling was studying for her master's degree training at Indiana State University is changing Then athletic officials balked when she was assigned to take a practicum working with the football team at spring drills. "Thev just didn't think a place was in the lockerroom," Wendling said. "They thought there were sexual connotations about that situation, that the guys might be stimulated before they went out to practice." The fact is that the officials of many colleges can no longer afford to entertain such fears.

t'nless it's a really big school, it's hard to have two separate facilities for men and women." Said It's too expensive That is the case at CMC. where the number of female athletes is stili relatively small DiBartola treats some women but mostly men The atmosphere is not unlike a hospital emergency room "They see Mark more as a doctor-type figure." said of CMC's head trainer, Mark Keppler, who oversees DiBartola's on-the-job training. "And they see me as Mark's assistant, almost like a nurse." Last year, 538.000 people received emergency hospital treatment because of falls on stairs. They had sprained ankles or wrists, broken bones, severe scratches or head injuries. ii ui.

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