Soccer Travels:

• Ben Black was with the U20's for the FIFA U20 World Cup in Canada.
• Sean McNeil was with the Futsal National team from the US Soccer Federation in Rio de Janeiro for the US Soccer Pan Am Games.

AthletiCo is proud to be a community partner by providing Athletic Training Community Outreach to over 40 local high schools and colleges including the following new affiliations for the 2007-08 year!

• Downers Grove South High School
• Driscoll Catholic High School
• Illiana Christian High School
• Maine East High School
• Maine South High School

Affiliate Congratulations:

Congratulations to the following AthletiCo affiliates on their recent accomplishments:

Congratulations to Fenwick High School on their recent selection as Sports Illustrated’s top Illinois high school athletic program. AthletiCo’s Tony McCormick, ATC, and Dana Sible, ATC, are the athletic trainers at Fenwick High School.

Congratulations to James Spinale, ATC, Aurora, and Sports Performance Volleyball in winning the 18 Open Division Women's National Championship, the highest level in Junior Olympic Volleyball. This is Sports Performance second national championship in the past 3 years!

AthletiCo and Oak Orthopedics hosted Chicago Bears Coaching Clinic!

On Tuesday, July 31, AthletiCo teamed up with Oak Orthopedics to bring AthletiCo and OAK’s affiliate high school athletic directors and football coaches this year’s Chicago Bears Coaches Clinic. The clinic included presentations from the Chicago Bears coaching and training staff including Head Coach Lovie Smith, Head Athletic Trainer Tim Bream, Strength and Conditioning Coordinator Rusty Jones, and Head Equipment Manager Tony Medlin, along with AthletiCo’s Performance Enhancement Specialist Will Haskell. Lecture topics included proper hydration for activity, nutrition of the athlete, properly equipping athletes, and sports performance enhancement for youth. Attendees were also invited to dinner and watched that night’s Bears practice from a VIP viewing area from Oak Orthopedics tent.

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The AthletiCo Golf Performance Center now has its own website! Check it out at www.athleticogolfcenter.com!

Congratulations to Jen Evola, LMT, RD, LDN, CGFI, Oak Park, on receiving her Level 1 Titleist Performance Institute certification. This certification coupled with Jen’s expertise as a registered dietitian and her involvement in AthletiCo's nutrition program provides another element in helping golfers improve their game on and off the course. Jen joins Oak Brook’s Cory Puyear, PT, MGFI, TPI CGFI, and Sam McKenney, Certified Golf Biomechanic, Teaching Professional, MGFI, TPI CGFI, as the third AthletiCo employee to receive his or her Titleist Performance Institute certification. Learn more about how AthletiCo’s Golf Performance Center and golf professionals can help your game!

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AthletiCo’s Sean McNeil, ATC, recently returned from the 2007 Pan Am Games in Rio de Janeiro where he was selected to serve as an athletic trainer for the Futsal National team from the US Soccer Federation.  This year’s Pan Am Games took place July 13-29 with over 5,000 athletes from 42 countries in the Americas competing in 34 sports.

While in Rio de Janeiro, McNeil lived in the Pan Am Village and worked in the sports medicine center with more than a dozen other ATCs as well as a half dozen physicians, one massage therapist, and one chiropractor who all worked together as a team to help ensure the best possible care for all the U.S. athletes.  McNeil was assigned to work directly with the U.S. Futsal Team, but he explains that when you volunteer with the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) you actually work with all the U.S. athletes as they report to the sports medicine center for injury evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation.  

Working with such elite athletes was a tremendous experience, but McNeil also says that the closing ceremonies were an event in themselves—unlike anything he had ever been a part of before.  They took place in Maracanã Stadium, an impressive stadium originally built for the 1950 World Cup and one of the most respected symbols of the city of Rio.  The delegations of the 42 countries that had taken part in the Games all converged together on the field in one giant celebration of sport and competition before an audience of 54,000 people.  There was also a brief slide show of the games, followed by performances by numerous Brazilian music artists and speeches from the Brazilian Olympic Committee and the Organizing Committee of the XV Pan American Games Rio 2007.  For McNeil, the overall experience was incredible, and he looks forward to working with the USOC in the future.

Sean McNeil is a certified athletic trainer who works at Moody Bible Institute as an AthletiCo outreach athletic trainer. He has traveled with numerous US Soccer National teams prior to the Pan Am Games.

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