Tony Ortiz
Sept 5, 2008 18:02:26 GMT -5
Post by Fastbreak on Sept 5, 2008 18:02:26 GMT -5
Ortiz to oversee athletic training program at Wright State
By Tom Archdeacon
Staff Writer
Friday, September 05, 2008
FAIRBORN — One of the most familiar faces in all of Wright State University athletics has left the school's sports sidelines.
Tony Ortiz, head athletic trainer at WSU for nearly 24 years, has given up his seat at the end of the basketball bench and his spot in the ultra-busy training room — where he oversaw the care of some 250 Raiders athletes — so he can become the full-time director of the school's Athletic Training Program.
The new job is an expansion of what he's already doing —administering the program and teaching all the classes — in a discipline that had just six students when he began there and now has more than 60 athletic training majors.
Along with classroom work, Ortiz places and monitors all the students for their nine quarters of clinical hours at either WSU, the University of Dayton, Central State and Wittenberg or in one of some 30 area high schools.
He'll also supervise WSU students doing internships at everywhere from Duke University, the University of Alaska and the University of Texas to the Baltimore Ravens.
"I'll still be busy, but the hours will be more set," said the 53-year-old Ortiz, a member of the Ohio Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame. "Before, I might get off a bus with the basketball team at 4 or 5 a.m. and then be back to teach at 8. That took a toll, but this will give me a chance to breath."
And yet he won't be relaxing that much. Along with the new academic position, he'll be working with the WSU College of Admissions in the Hispanic community, both recruiting Spanish- speaking students to college and making sure the school has the infrastructure in place to help those students succeed.
Ortiz was replaced on the WSU sidelines Sept. 1 by former assistant trainer, Jason Franklin.
"I'll miss the players, but not all these practices," Ortiz said with a laugh. "As for the basketball games, I'll sit up in stands now. It might be fun to just be a fan."
www.daytondailynews.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/college/wsu/2008/09/05/ddn090508spwsu.html
By Tom Archdeacon
Staff Writer
Friday, September 05, 2008
FAIRBORN — One of the most familiar faces in all of Wright State University athletics has left the school's sports sidelines.
Tony Ortiz, head athletic trainer at WSU for nearly 24 years, has given up his seat at the end of the basketball bench and his spot in the ultra-busy training room — where he oversaw the care of some 250 Raiders athletes — so he can become the full-time director of the school's Athletic Training Program.
The new job is an expansion of what he's already doing —administering the program and teaching all the classes — in a discipline that had just six students when he began there and now has more than 60 athletic training majors.
Along with classroom work, Ortiz places and monitors all the students for their nine quarters of clinical hours at either WSU, the University of Dayton, Central State and Wittenberg or in one of some 30 area high schools.
He'll also supervise WSU students doing internships at everywhere from Duke University, the University of Alaska and the University of Texas to the Baltimore Ravens.
"I'll still be busy, but the hours will be more set," said the 53-year-old Ortiz, a member of the Ohio Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame. "Before, I might get off a bus with the basketball team at 4 or 5 a.m. and then be back to teach at 8. That took a toll, but this will give me a chance to breath."
And yet he won't be relaxing that much. Along with the new academic position, he'll be working with the WSU College of Admissions in the Hispanic community, both recruiting Spanish- speaking students to college and making sure the school has the infrastructure in place to help those students succeed.
Ortiz was replaced on the WSU sidelines Sept. 1 by former assistant trainer, Jason Franklin.
"I'll miss the players, but not all these practices," Ortiz said with a laugh. "As for the basketball games, I'll sit up in stands now. It might be fun to just be a fan."
www.daytondailynews.com/s/content/oh/story/sports/college/wsu/2008/09/05/ddn090508spwsu.html