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mily Giorgi is a long way from Sacramento
on this gray October morning.
It’s 11:30, halfway through class, and
her elbow is bound securely in tape.
Various Achilles tendons, knees, thumbs, elbows and
other joints are taped up around her, making Jeff Beer’s
Master of Athletic Training clinical classroom look like a
congregation of the accident-prone.
During a recent football
season, Foreman works
with athletic training
majors Sha’ Howard ’15
and Zac Cowell ’15.
Beer moves around the room, critiquing the tape jobs,
offering guidance (“Little higher on the thumb … Cover
this joint”) and reassurance (“Everyone tapes differently”).
Meanwhile, to Giorgi’s dismay, it’s turned cold outside.
“Hey, don’t make fun of my home state,” she jokes,
pulling on a jacket as her classmates rib her about her
thin California blood.
Cold or not, though, here’s one thing Giorgi can tell you:
Manchester University, and more specifically Manchester’s
Master of Athletic Training Program, made her feel warm
inside from the very start.
“I applied to two schools,” says Giorgi, who grew up
in Sacramento and got her undergraduate degree in
kinesiology at Sonoma State University outside San
Francisco. “I applied to California Baptist University and
I applied to Manchester after looking through like 20
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