EAST LANSING, Mich. — John Powell and Sally Nogle, who teach in the Department of Kinesiology at Michigan State University, will be inducted into the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame on June 28.
The honor is reserved for athletic trainers whose long-standing careers represent the best of their profession.
Nogle, currently associate head athletic trainer for MSU, became the first female athletic trainer to work for a Big Ten football team when she went to work for the Spartans in the early 1980s. Out of more than 250 members, she is only the 12th woman to be admitted to the national Hall of Fame.
Nogle has accompanied Spartan sports teams around the globe for everything from match-offs to Olympic events. Today she oversees Spartan field hockey and tennis, in addition to football. She received her Ph.D. in Kinesiology from MSU in 2001.
Powell is an associate professor of kinesiology and director of graduate programs in athletic training. He joined the faculty in 2000 and has been instrumental in developing the undergraduate athletic training program, now a separate major.
His own research interests focus on injury prevention, sports injury epidemiology and the biomechanics of lower extremity injuries, particularly in association with traction qualities of the shoe-surface interface.
Both Nogle and Powell have received numerous other awards, including NATA’s Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award.
Earlier this year, they were awarded the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association Outstanding Educator Award, with fellow MSU trainer Dave Carrier, for their efforts to educate members of the association throughout the region.
The NATA Hall of Fame induction ceremony is part of the association’s annual meeting in St. Louis. Read a news release for more information about all 17 new inductees.
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