Company Profile
Athleticare Sports Health Foundation, Inc
Company Overview
Athleticare Sports Health Foundation is a nonprofit organization seeking to create safer high school sports programs. Athleticare Sports Health Foundation also serves as a premier resource for athletic trainers, offering professional and education resources and access to a world-class athletic training fellowship program.
Athleticare Sports Health Foundation is committed to four tenets, which will help to make youth sports safer for everyone:
Promoting safer sports programs
Protecting student athletes
Supporting the community
Empowering athletic trainers
Company History
Athleticare Sports Health Foundation was founded in 2014 by Dr. Ron Wagner. Dr. Wagner, a life-long athlete himself, noticed the number of high school sports programs in St. Louis that were ill-equipped to run safely. Sports are cornerstone programs at many high schools and a lack of safety can lead to injury-prone activities and even the untimely end of young athlete’s sports careers. Dr. Wagner knew that the only way to address this problem was to increase the access to certified athletic trainers for these under-served schools – to assist in training, prevention and treatment of sports injuries. To combat this growing problem, Dr. Wagner founded Athleticare Sports Health Foundation with the goal of creating safer sports programs – not just in St. Louis, but across the country.