{"id":690,"date":"2024-09-27T15:31:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/?p=690"},"modified":"2024-09-27T15:31:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:31:44","slug":"a-mixed-bag-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Mixed Bag of Everything\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Seven Hills trainer\u2019s day to day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jackson Irby, Law Kennedy and James Levesque<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might wonder who fills up the water at your games and practices. It’s not a teammate or coach. It’s Chad Rairdon, the athletic trainer who has worked for 7 Hills for two years. He has been an athletic trainer for a total of 6 years, including working for The Bengals and the Florence Y\u2019alls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On an average day at school, he arrives at 1 pm and sets up water for practice and games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He doesn\u2019t go to away games unless there is no athletic trainer. He will go with the teams to tournaments, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 At 2:20-2:30 pm after filling the waters, he will then document injuries that happened or plan Physical Training for student-athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 2:33 pm before practices and games students will start filling in, and the goal is to get therapy kids out and done first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He calms players down by empathizing with them and knowing how they got hurt; for example, Chad doesn\u2019t let players \u201cget too far down the rabbit hole and think [their] season is over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:30 pm after school, he tapes up students and takes care of stuff that happened last night or that day that he didn\u2019t know about, like treatments and evaluations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He sees himself working at 7 hills in the future as an advisory role but has aspirations to be a regional coordinator role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Chad\u2019s senior year of college at Wellington, he had a 10 month internship at The Bengals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His work for the Bengals mostly involved field setup. He did treatments on players like ultrasounds (an imaging test that uses sound waves to take pictures of organs, tissues, etc.), ESTIM (a type of treatment that sends electrical pulses through the skin.), and red light therapy (repairs skin and boosting new cell growth.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a mixed bag of everything,\u201d he said while working for the Bengals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2020-2021, Chad worked for the Florence Y\u2019all\u2019s, a professional baseball team in the Frontier League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chad treated players\u2014and warm-ups for the starting pitcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chad’s job included being there for anyone hurt during practice or before a game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chad also helped the team with field setup and post-game treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chad played baseball in college. He is a member of OATA (Ohio, Athletic, Trainers, Association) and believes in supporting locally. He sees himself working at 7 hills in the future as an advisory role or a coordinator role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seven Hills trainer\u2019s day to day By Jackson Irby, Law Kennedy and James Levesque You might wonder who fills up the water at your games and practices. It’s not a teammate or coach. It’s Chad Rairdon, the athletic trainer who has worked for 7 Hills for two years. He has been an athletic trainer for a total of 6 years, including working for The Bengals … Continue reading \u201cA Mixed Bag of Everything\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}