McCallum High School - Knight Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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i 'T yi? xg Far leTT: RoberT Miller urges on a spiriTed offense as They approach The goal line. CenTer lefT: Escape TacTics are called Tor as TooTball Trainer Wes Hardeman finds himself enTangled in a spir- iTed web oT silly sTring. l.efT: Tib Scallon makes a quick sTaTisTics check wiTh baskeTball Trainer Don Wilkes. Top: Special aTTenTion To STerling Boon's chronically bad ankles is required as Doc Brock carefully Tapes Them before pracTice. Above: Once again Trainers Tony Rodriguez and Roberf Miller siT on The sidelines while Their Tellow aTh- leTes receive all The glory. As Mr. Brock puT iT, Some would raTher sTay away from The hiTTing, buT wanT To be more Than iusT specTaTors. One problem Mr. Brock has Tound was easily solved wiTh The appoinTmenT oT a baseball sTudenT Trainer. Some of The Track and baseball evenTs coincide: and noT being able To go wiTh boTh, Mr. Brock goes wiTh The Track Team. He does This because pulled muscles and ligamenTs are rnuch more common in a Track runner Than a baseball player. Also, he may noT aTTempT To Tix a 'fin- ger ouT of ioinT, only To senT The sTu- denT To a docTor. One problem he has Tound is The players don'T realize Their iniuries and so Take Them home wiThouT knowledge of Their presence. The school wanTs Their iniured players To see The Team's docTor because he will usually send The player To a specialist BuT once home, a player usually ends up consulT- ing his own physician. WiTh Tew maior injuries in his Two years, Mr. Brock admiTs, we've been 'forTunaTe. Of course There is always a chance of an iniury in any sporT. So, Doc Brock musT always be There, ready To help any injured player as much as he can. ruiners

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4 'Doing something with my spare time' ' mit Ever wonder about the guy with the water bottle running back and torth dur- ing the tootball game? He is one ot the team's two trainers. He doesn't actually train the players, but he does care tor their minor iniuries and supply them with ice water and gatorade. Depending on the season, the trainers' work hours do vary. For in-season prac- tices, he donates about tour hours a day. Ott-season, trom the end ot football play to early May, he only works an hour and a halt. Every practice session a trainer spends about one halt an hour taping all the players who need it. Taping is an art exclusive to a trainer. It can be acquired trom many sources. Trainer Robert Miller attended a summer training session in Waco. But some, like Wes Hardeman, learned 'From experience. lt no injuries occur during practice, the trainer is lett with tree time. iFree time to perform other iobsi. Tasks such as set- ting up gatorade breaks keep him busy. A trainer must tirst have a basic inter- est in a sport to put so much time and ettort into it. He has usually been cl trom the team or suttered an iniury the had kept him trom playing. This being si it is logical to conclude that a trains would be looked down upon by the pla' ers. This is not true. Robert Mille believes most ot them appreciate mi iust kind of blend in. Four school sports have managers an trainers. Besides Robert Miller and We Hardeman as trainers, football also he two managers with Leslie Reeves an Tony Rodriguez. Basketball has acquire two sophomore managers with Do Wilkes and David Daily. David Russe returned this year as the track team manager. And the baseball team's mar ager Tony Rodriguez, along with traine Steve Saxon, make the list a total numbe ot ten. A team's manager, an impressiv sounding title, is actually iust the per 1 responsible tor game equipment in tc l ball, and statistics in basketball. As v the trainers, most managers remain atter being cut trom the team. Management ot the baseball team O includes care ot the equipment and uni- torms and an accurate accounting ot all the game's statistics. Data such as hits, runs-batted-in, and strike-outs must all be recorded during a game. Baseball manager Tony Rodriguez donates about as much time as the play- ers themselves. With a season trom early February to the end ot the play and practice sessions 'from 3 p.m. to dark, the manager is kept busy. Whether a trainer or a manager, any student taking this position seems to tind tultillment in doing something with my spare time and getting involved in a sport. Another side ot it, the teacher trainer. is Mr. Bobby Brock, a world history teacher. Also called Doc Brock a tavorite nick-name tor most trainers, t has now been at McCallum tor two year His iob as trainer tor all tour sports is ' supervise the student trainers and ma agers in their iobs. Mr. Brock's responsibilities are a litt more complicated than the student trai er's. For instance, he cannot administi aspirin to a player lhe can recommer that they take some, but it is illegal ti him to prescribe anything medicinall. Another ot Doc Brock's many respo sibilities is the appointment ot studei trainers and managers. Mr. Brock ar Coach Jim Acker decide on the be choices. They usually choose from bor who have shown an interest in a spor but don't have the ability or drive t play on a team.

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