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Welcome to the Hawaii Athletic Trainers' Association!

The mission of the Hawaii Athletic Trainers’ Association is to enhance the quality of health care provided by its members and to advance the athletic training profession.

In June, HMSA recognized 20 outstanding high school graduates who each received $5,000 HMSA Kaimana Scholarships, along with nine high schools that took home HMSA Kaimana Awards and $1,500 each. Mahalo to all the athletic trainers who played a role in the scholarship recipients’ success. It takes a village!

View the full list of winners here.

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Come join in on the fun by volunteering at this year’s HATA Foundation Scholarship Golf Tournament. If you are interested please fill out the google form link on www.hawaiiata.org

Join us for the 2025 Hawai’i Sports Medicine Summit on June 13-14 at the UH Mānoa Campus Center Ballroom. Register now on www.hawaiiata.org.

Congratulations to Karin as she was the NATA Secondary School Athletic Trainer of the Year Award winner for District 8!! 🎉 #FWATA2025

Fun times at this years HATA Social! #FWATA2025

Join us for some fun at the HATA Social for FWATA 2025. RSVP on www.hawaiiata.org

LINK IN THE BIO🔥💰

Listen Up👂: High School and College Students!!
Due Soon 🧭: March 15 by 5PM
Submit via Email: ktamura@hawaii.edu

The Hawai`i Athletic Trainers’ Association Foundation sponsors three scholarships to support students
from different levels (i.e. Graduate, Undergraduate, and high school levels). Each recipient receives a
$1000 monetary award and a plaque. These scholarship awards are given to continue promoting the
education and profession of athletic training and to recognize outstanding students who represent the future of the Athletic Training profession.

Come and join us for our first ever HATA Fun Run on March 30, 2025. The mission of HATA is to enhance the quality of health care provided by its members and to advance the athletic training profession here in State of Hawaii. This event will help raise funds for future events and scholarships.

RSVP TODAY!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIGLOO57UKRcssUuK5-H1qsNnjh4ExeYyZRxxcXhJca-Gm-Q/viewform

The Neuro Huddle: The Emerging Science in Sports-Related Concussion Management Conference on January 18-19. Space is limited, so please register ASAP to reserve your seat!

Punahou School is currently seeking a Full Time Regular Athletic Trainer. To view this job opportunity head to NATA Career Center where you can apply if you are interested!

Job Opening at Damien Memorial School. For more information head to the NATA website and click the Career and Education tab. 🤙🏽

Welcoming our 2025 HATA Executive Board! 👏🏽🎉

Congratulations to our HATA Foundation Research Grant and Scholarship Recipients! 👏🏽
• Ivet Llonansi Rodriguez, PHD Student at UH Mānoa
• Yoko Sakurai, MS in AT Student at UH Mānoa
• Kayla-Jane Padayao, Student at James Campbell High school.

June 1-7 each year is National CPR AND AED Awareness Week, spotlighting how lives can be saved if more Americans know CPR and how to use an AED. American Heart Association’s Campaign reinforces these skills but also places importance on the willingness of bystander to act in a cardiac arrest emergency. ❤️

Thank you so much to all the student who participated in this year’s HATA Student workshop held at Nanakuli High & intermediate school. We started out the day with a yoga session led by Alexe Navarro (Kailua High School.) Our speakers included Diamond Miller (HCAMP), Dr. Kiyomi Goto (Queens Sports Medicine), Dr. Kaori Tamura (UH-Manoa) and UH Graduate students Gianna Ramiscal & Cheyenne Fuertes.
Lastly thank you to all the volunteers who dedicated their time in helping to make this workshop a success!

Keep on the lookout for next year’s workshop which will be held possibly at Waipahu High School.

We would like to extend our sincere thanks for attending this year’s HATA 14th Scholarship Golf Tournament! Please consider joining us again next year as we are continuously planning throughout the year. ⛳️

Mahalo!

🚨Reminder🚨
HATA General Meeting on June 8th, see you there!

Help spread the importance of mental health and awareness. ATs Care is a great peer-to-peer support program for Athletic Trainers who seek help.

To seek support please visit https://forms.nata.org/ats-care-contact
or contact Sharyn Kodama at (808)330-9918
#mentalhealthawareness

Volunteer at this year’s Special Olympics Summer Games!!

• 3 day state wide competition
• Friday 6/7: Softball at CORP, Opening Ceremonies at UH Manoa
• Saturday 6/8: Softball at Jefferson Elementary, Track and Field at Kaiser HS, Power Lifting at UH Manoa, Swimming at UH Duke Kahanamoku Pool, Victory Dance at UH Manoa
• Sunday 6/9: Track and Field at Kaiser HS, Power Lifting at UH Manoa, Swimming at UH Duke Kahanamoku Pool.

•Plenty of Food, Snacks, and Drinks will be provided
• Medical Shirts will be given

Interested/ Questions Please contact Elise Cuaresma at (808)421-9309 or email her at chap3po@aol.com

Nominations are open! Please consider nominating a fellow HATA member or yourself for a position on the Executive Board. All positions are up for nomination:

- President
- Vice-President
- District 8 Representative
- Secretary
- Treasurer

Nominations will be open from today until Friday, May 31, 2024

For more information please visit www.hawaiiata.org.

Come join in on the fun by volunteering at this year’s HATA Golf Tournament. If you are interested, please fill out the google form link on www.hawaiiata.org by Monday, May 7th. ⛳️

Our HATA Athletic Training Student Aide Workshop will be coming up on June 5th! Please spread the word and let your students know! 📣
For more information and to register visit www.hawaiiata.org

Congrats to @garvtsuji! FWATAs 2024 Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer 🎉🎊🙌🏽 #fwata2024 #fwatad8

Viva Las Vegas! Day 2 of the 2024 AMCS was filled with lots of learning and networking! After a long day of sessions, district and state meetings, HATA members gathered at the J. Bar Golf & Lounge for good eats and good fun!

Viva Las Vegas! ✈️🎰
HATA members kicked off this year’s FWATA AMCS at the Paul Schecter Memorial Golf Tournament. It was the perfect day for golf and fellowship at Desert Pines Golf Club. Day 1 in the books! Looking forward to tomorrow!

Join us for our HATA Social at J Bar and Golf Lounge on April 19th at 7:30pm. Light pupus and drinks will be provided. See you there! 🏌🏽‍♀️🏌🏽

Register now for the Hawai’i Sports Medicine Summit! June 7-8 at The University of Hawai’i at Manoa Campus Center Ballroom and Virtually via Zoom. See you there!

It’s a Tie Breaker!!

Please check your email from FWATA to vote for our next District Secretary. Voting will be open from Tuesday, April 2 through Tuesday, April 9. Closing at 12am HST.

If you are attending FWATA 2024….

Please go to hawaiiata.org to fill out our google form to help us plan our HATA social! See you there 🥳

Happy NATM!

We spent our morning at Paepae o He’eia removing invasive upside down jellyfish from the pond 🪼. Mahalo to @paepaeoheeia for having us again this year! #natm2024

Happy Monday! Please check your email from FWATA to vote for our next District Secretary. Link will be provided in the email. Mahalo!

Meet our new PR Committee Co-Chair Taylor Magpuri! HATA is super excited to have Taylor aboard because of her dedication to our profession, and her vast experience in content creation. We really appreciate Taylor keeping HATA in the shuffle of her work at Kapiolani MC and her passion for dance! Mahalo and welcome in, Taylor!

A very big mahalo to our Presidential Sponsor Hawaii Pacific Health for their generous support that allows HATA to provide scholarships for aspiring athletic trainers and healthcare professionals, and grants for certified athletic trainers who work hard to advance our profession through research studies!

#HPH #NATM2024 #NATA

Meet our new PR Committee Co-Chair Bailey Gongob! Bailey currently works at Kailua High and HATA is very fortunate to have her aboard. When she isn’t busy taking care of the Surfriders, Bailey volunteers her time and programs HATA in a very impressive light via Canva and other popular social media apps! Mahalo and welcome, Bailey!

A very big mahalo to our Presidential Sponsor Hawaii Pacific Health for their generous support that allows HATA to provide scholarships for aspiring athletic trainers and healthcare professionals, and grants for certified athletic trainers who work hard to advance our profession through research studies!

#NATM2024 #HPH #NATA

Don’t forget! The deadline for the HATA Student Scholarship is March 15th.

For details, go to www.hawaiiata.org

Save the date! We will be returning to the Kāne’ohe fishpond on March 29th 🐟. For more information go to www.hawaiiata.org

Hope to see you there!

Happy National Athletic Training month, HATA members! Stay tuned for activities and have an awesome month! #NATM2024

Registration is open! Please join us for the 14th HATA Scholarship Golf Tournament in May! Details can be found online at hawaiiata.org. We hope to see you on the links! ⛳️🏌🏻🏌🏽‍♀️🏌🏿‍♂️

Mahalo Nui Loa for your overwhelming support for the Maui athletes affected by the recent wildfires to our island home. We are beyond grateful. Through your sharing and donations, we have reached our initial goal of $10,000 and have already begun to use that to benefit affected athletes directly. We are keeping our fundraising going and with thanks and humility have increased our goal to $20,000. Athletics on the island have officially re-started and more requests from athletes and families are coming in. We are also thrilled to hear that Lahainaluna, whose student body was most directly affected by the fires, will more than likely be able to participate in league competition this year! Our goal remains the same, to be able to remove barriers to participation for these students to be able to compete and regain some sense of normalcy and community within these challenging times. We cannot thank you enough. #MauiStrong

Our hearts are with all of Maui, and for those able to help, please consider donating to the student-athletes and families of the Maui Interscholastic League (MIL). We are very grateful to hear that the Maui ATs are safe from harm, but there is a tough road ahead for all. Mahalo to KS-Maui AT Erin Barnett for creating the gofundme page. We will do everything we can to support our Maui ʻohana!

Oh what a time to continue our education! Excited to see what’s in store for us at @fwatad8 AMCS this year! @cata_d8 @nevada_ata @uhm_sato @hawaiiathletictraining

Attention HATA Members! If you are attending AMCS next month in Kona, you are cordially invited to the 2023 HATA Social!

Light beverages and pupus will be provided. Whether you’ll be catching up with old friends or meeting new ATs to the HATA ʻohana, we look forward to kicking back and relaxing with you after a long day of CEUs and meetings!

If you haven’t already, please let us know if you’d like to attend the social! Check your emails for the Google Form, or DM for confirmation! SEE YOU SOON!!! 🤙🏼

The HATA 13th Annual Golf Tournament was a success! It was all made possible by generous donors and tournament participants that we cannot thank enough! But without further ado, we want to recognize our sponsors and give a BIG MAHALO!!!

Last but definitely not least, many thanks to the Golf Committee for hustling and planning another great tournament. Also, thank you to the volunteers who may not know much about golf, but they definitely know how to step up and support their fellow ATs. We appreciate you!

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It’s great to be back! The HATA Athletic Training Student Aide Workshop returned and it was a blast!

We were extremely fortunate to have speakers come in and present to the aspiring athletic trainers from Oahu high schools. Much mahalo to Andrew Takata of @HNLmovement, Dana Fong-Reyes of @coresportshawaii and Dr. Lafe Harris of Queens Sports Medicine. The students learned a lot and enjoyed the engagement!

Also, a BIG shoutout to @MoanaluaAthletics for hosting us in your awesome gym and for the prize donations!

Last but not least, the workshop would not have been a success without the help of our volunteers. Thank you all so much for the time you put in to the future generations of athletic trainers in Hawaii. Let’s run it back again next year and see if we can get our neighbor islands in on the fun! 🤙🏼

Music credit: DolbyMillz

It’s a beautiful day for golf!!! Big shout out to our Presidential Sponsor, @hawaiipachealth ! We deeply appreciate the support for our 13th Annual HATA Golf Tournament!

Proceeds go to scholarships for students aspiring to become certified athletic trainers!

Thank you Andrew Takata @hnlmovement for speaking with our Hawaii High School Student ATAs

The Hawaii Athletic Trainers’ Association Golf Tournament is steadily approaching and the playing field is full! That means it’s all hands on deck for behind the scenes and we are calling for all available volunteers!

If you are free on Friday, June 2nd please contact Garvin Tsuji at gtsuji@iolani.org ! No golf tournament volunteer experience necessary! We are athletic trainers! OTJ training is how we operate 🤭

It will be a great day filled with laughs and camaraderie, and it’s for a wonderful purpose! Proceeds go to the HATA Foundation Scholarships! For more info visit our website: http://hawaiiata.org

Special Olympics Hawaii Summer Games will be this June 9-11, and are looking for medical volunteers. Events will be:
Track at Kaiser on Saturday and Sunday (6/10-6/11)
Swimming and Powerlifting at UH on Saturday and Sunday (6/10-6/11)
Softball will be at UH, CORP, and Sand Island on Friday and Saturday (6/9-6/10)
Anyone interested can email Danny Kao at wei-en.kao@gmr.net

May is Mental Awareness Month. If you or anyone you know are dealing with critical stress situations and need someone to talk to, please contact Sharyn Kodama our ATsCare representative or go to the NATA website for more information.

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