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pirates.com and various other outlets. The office also celebrated 50 and Dr. Samuel Church of Synergy Health.
Years of Pirate Athletics in 2016-17 with a year-long program.
Currently the second-longest tenured sports information direc- North Georgia’s Huggins, Smith Receive Dissinger
tor in the Peach Belt, Jackson will transition to the Georgia Southern Reed Athletic Training Graduate Scholarships
media relations office this summer.
HILTON HEAD, SC – North Georgia graduate
students Katelyn Huggins and Tanika Smith
have been named the 2017 recipients of the
Dissinger Reed Athletic Training Graduate
Scholarships. The honors were presented at
the PBC athletic trainers annual symposium in
Augusta.
Both students will receive financial sup-
port from Dissinger Reed as the continue their
studies towards a masters degree in health
and physical education at North Georgia
with the goal of becoming full time athletic
trainers. 2017 is the third year of the program.
Huggins began her graduate work
at North Georgia in the fall of 2016. From
Dahlonega, Ga., she earned her undergrad
degree in health & physical education while
working with nine Nighthawk programs as a
Young Harris Named Dissinger Reed Athletic Train- student trainer. She is now a graduate assistant working with men’s
soccer, men’s and women’s golf, mixed rifle and spring season women’s
ing Staff of the Year
soccer. A member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA),
she has also assisted at local high schools.
AUGUSTA, GA – Young Harris College was awarded the 2017
Smith earned her undergraduate degree from West Alabama and
Dissinger Reed Athletic Training Staff of the Year award on Tuesday
will begin taking classes through North Georgia while working as a
night at the Peach Belt Conference’s annual athletic training sympo-
graduate assistant at Columbus State University. From Demopolis,
sium in Augusta.
Ala., she earned her bachelors of science in athletic training from UWA
The award is the second for Young Harris, who also won in 2015.
while also a part of the varsity cheerleading squad. Smith is a member
This is the sixth year the honor has been presented.
of the Blue Key Honor Society, Iota Tau Alpha Honor Society and was
Overseeing one of the largest athletic programs in the Peach
named to the Presidents List three times.
Belt Conference, the Young Harris athletic training staff continues
Providing insurance for student athletes since 1982, Dissinger Reed
to provide comprehensive, high-quality medical services to every
is one of the largest and most respected independent athletic insur-
Young Harris College student-athlete. This is completed through the
ance agencies in the United States. The company currently advises 180
education of student-athletes in injury prevention, injury care and
higher education institutions and 19 state high school associations
rehabilitation, nutrition, training techniques, and healthy choices
across the country, including the National Federation of State High
for life. The Mountain Lion athletic training program continually
School Associations. Responding to the rising costs of premiums and
improves upon the current knowledge available in the sports
medical expenses, Dissinger Reed is proactive in securing the most
medicine field regarding the newest treatment, rehabilitation, and
comprehensive insurance coverage for any risk within a college/uni-
prevention techniques in order to enhance each student-athlete’s
versity athletic department, including insurance for camps and clinics,
athletic success.
international students and more.
Under the direction of head athletic trainer Jared Sandler, the
YHC staff includes assistant athletic trainer Halee Brown and grad-
uate assistants Ashton Phillips and Shanda Callenback. The staff
also works with Dr. John Vachtsevanos of Specialty Clinics of Georgia
Orthopaedics, Dr. Michele Thompson of High Mountain Healthcare
2016-17