January 13, 2023 - Athletic Trainers Save Lives.  But an Alarming Number of High Schools Don't Employ Them, reported by Lindsay Schnell, USA Today.com (ran in print edition on January 18, 2023)
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February 7, 2019 - Oregon - Investigate West Goes Beyond The Concussion Numbers - And Finds Out That Certified Athletic Trainers Are Very Important.  See Rattling The Data: Concussion Investigation Gleans Lessons From Public Documents, reported by Jacob Fenton and Lee Van Der Voo, Investigate West.
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January 13, 2019 – Portland, Me - Certified Trainers Keep Athletes Safe From Injury.  So Why Do So Few Maine Schools Have Them? reported by Steve Craig, Portland Press Herald. 
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October 9, 2017 - Oklahoma - Licensing athletic trainers is necessary but insufficient.  Somehow, schools have to be able to afford having certified athletic trainers on site.  Oklahoma Watch illustrates how a lack of certified athletic trainers exacerbates the concussion problem.  See In School Sports, Hundreds of Concussions But Few Athletic Trainers To Prevent Them, reported by Dana Branham and Jennifer Palmer, Oklahoma Watch, October 9, 2017.
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September 22, 2017 - San Francisco, CA - The San Francisco Chronicle makes the case for licensing athletic trainers, and asks why California is the only State that doesn't do so.  See How California Puts High School Athletes At Great Risk (titled Safety Sidelined in the paper edition), reported by Al Saracevic, San Francisco Chronicle, page A1.
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March 11, 2017 - Sacramento, CA - California is the only State that doesn't license certified athletic trainers.  That could soon change.  See Local Athletic Trainers Back Push For State Licensing Program, reported by Lori A. Carter, Santa Rosa Press Democrat.  Note: Part of the reason that California doesn't license athletic trainers is because California's Governor has vetoed previous legislation.  It is possible that the Governor may not know what an athletic trainer is.  That's about the only rational explanation for vetoing a fairly non-controversial proposal that has passed in every other State.  See  
California Sports Administrator Puzzled By Governor Brown’s Veto of AB 1890, MomsTeam.com, August 4, 2014.
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