Cuts, bruises, blisters, black eyes, and sprained ankles. Athletes get all types of injuries when competing in school athletics. Our school’s athletic trainer Beverly Fowler has seen a lot during her career working with high school and collegiate athletes.

She’s been at Chaparral since the beginning of this school year. Her main focus is to make sure that safety precautions, policies and procedures are followed when there is a medical emergency on the field, court, weight room, or track.

“I have to have all the equipment that might be needed to handle medical emergencies,” explained Fowler. “Anything can happen.”

She said that the best part of being the athletic trainer is watching athletes playing and having sports bonding with the other team members. The worst part of her job is when an athlete gets injured and cannot play for the rest season.