Intro: Hello, my name is Jared Ferreira from Freetown, Massachusetts. I am in my junior year. I spent my first year at UMass Dartmouth as a biology major and have spent my second and third years here at Bridgewater State University as an athletic training major. I’d like to thank you for the chance to apply for the Athletic Training Program and I hope you find that I am a worthy candidate to continue in my education of Athletic Training.
1. Firstly, I believe that the Athletic Training program would give me all of the knowledge and hands-on experience to pursue a career in Athletic Training. With a sterile learning environment within the classroom I can learn about the anatomy and physiology of the body, the different injury types, how to handle them when they occur, and how to rehabilitate an injured athlete back to a healthy state. The clinical portion of the program will allow me to gain experience and use the information I have learned in the classroom, in a hands-on setting. This experience is crucial for me to be able to work in this kind of setting later on without it being unknown to me unlike the classroom.
2. The athletic training profession contains the basis to everything that is found in any sports medicine career. To be an athletic trainer, one must learn the skills of an exercise scientist, physical therapist, EMT, and a few others. All roads of sports medicine travel through the knowledge and techniques found in athletic training.
3. I see athletic training as a growing career path for many people across the country. Athletic training careers span from the high school, to college, and professional sports levels. But they also can be found in other non-sport settings like in hospitals, clinics, the military, EMT services, and more. The knowledge found in the athletic training program will give me the tools to be successful in any of these career paths.
4. Three words that best describe me are: hard-working, knowledgeable, and dependable. Ever since I was born my father has instilled in me that you can’t get anywhere in life without working for it, and that nothing is handed to you. That is why I work hard at everything I strive for. I am a hard-worker in the classroom as well as out in the field which helps me learn about the many pieces of information needed to progress in the athletic training program. One could call me dependable from my record of barely missing any classes in my college career, and also I have only called out of work twice in my life. An area of concern for me would be never working in a health care setting before but I believe that the experience accrued in the clinicals will get rid of any nervousness I might have in that setting.
5. After graduating, I have a few options open for myself. I could work as an athletic trainer in the collegiate or professional level. Another option is going into the military as a permanent career, or just temporarily, and later going to graduate school for physical therapy or occupational therapy.
6. Something interesting about me, would be that I have known that I’ve wanted to go into the medical field since my freshman year of high school. After taking a biology honors class that I thoroughly enjoyed, especially during the anatomy and physiology portions, I realized that careers in this field were right for me, and something I would enjoy. It was not long before my love for sports meshed with this vision and led me to a career in athletic training.
Outro: Thank you for reviewing my application and I hope you see that I am fitting for the admittance into the Athletic Training Program. Have a good day.
