WICHITA, Kan. – Ascension Via Christi will add an athletic coach to its staff assigned to trace and discipline and cross nation groups, bringing the variety of full-time athletic trainers devoted solely to caring for Wichita State University student-athletes to seven. 

That’s in accordance with its not too long ago renewed contract for Ascension Via Christi, which can function the unique WSU Athletics’ sports activities medication supplier for one more three years efficient July 1, 2023. The contract additionally supplies for a full-time affected person care coordinator who will assist the student-athlete affected person expertise together with help in navigating the medical system, scheduling appointments, in addition to billing and processing.

 

“We cannot understate the amount of gratitude for Ascension Via Christi regarding their commitment to expanding and enhancing the level of care for our student-athletes,” mentioned Madison Stein-Mason, Wichita State Deputy Director of Athletics/SWA. “Through our shared vision and collaboration, we will continue to be positioned to remain on the cutting edge of sports medicine and providing state-of-the-art treatment. This partnership has continued to grow since its inception, and we are excited to continue working and advancing together.”

 

Currently, Ascension Via Christi Sports Medicine has one full-time athletic coach assigned to WSU males’s basketball/ladies’s golf, one to ladies’s basketball/males’s golf, one to volleyball/males’s & ladies’s tennis and two to the observe and discipline and cross nation groups. Wichita State employs two full-time athletic trainers and three graduate assistants who work instantly with baseball, cross nation, softball, tennis, observe and discipline, and volleyball. 

 

“The collaboration with Ascension Via Christi over the years has been a tremendous benefit to the Shocker student-athletes,” mentioned Dan Cahill, Wichita State Director of Sports Medicine/Head Athletic Trainer. “These staff additions confirm the collective commitment of Ascension Via Christi and the Wichita State Athletic Department in providing industry-leading medical care to our Shocker student-athletes.”

 

Ascension Via Christi at present employs 16 full-time athletic trainers and three part-time athletic trainers who present protection and assist for different Wichita space sporting occasions. Five are assigned to WSU, two to Newman University and 9 to space excessive faculties.

 

Shocker Sports Medicine works beneath the medical route of sports activities medication specialists Andrew Porter, DO, and Paul Cleland, MD and three sports activities medication fellows doing fellowship coaching in Primary Care Sports Medicine.

 

“We have an experienced and well-trained team all working with one goal in mind: To help athletes of all ages and playing levels safely remain in, or return to, their game,” mentioned Ron Baker, the Ascension Via Christi challenge supervisor assigned to work with WSU. “We are excited to continue our professional association with WSU and its student-athletes for another three years.”