About Playsafe
Educating, promoting, supporting, and fostering safe athletic participation
“Thanks in large part to Tom Kemmerle, a PlaySafe athletic trainer at Pendleton, and the addition of requiring schools to have Automated External Defibrillator devices, which were used Friday, Sutherland was given those precious minutes needed to give the ambulance and paramedics the time they needed.”
WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO
The sports medicine services in our community are unfunded by the state. PlaySafe, a 501c(3) nonprofit organization, strives to support essential sports medicine services to our athletic youth and community by providing certified athletic trainers to secondary schools in our community. We believe that professional, comprehensive sports medicine services begin with a certified athletic trainer (ATC) and are critical to safe and healthy athletic participation. Certified athletic trainers are experts in sports-related injury prevention, assessment, and care. Simply put, the presence of a certified athletic trainer can save a life.
SPORTS MEDICINE CARE FOR ALL
PlaySafe provides full-time athletic training services to all student athletes in our area. A certified athletic trainer will be available in all secondary schools dedicated to the provision of comprehensive sports medicine and health services for all students. These services will promote healthy and safe athletic participation and return-to-sports activities, as well as healthy lifestyle and educational programming for both student athletes and non-athletes. PlaySafe’s secondary school program will serve as a community-based wellness program from which additional community programming can be developed and delivered.
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ATHLETIC TRAINING STAFF
Belton Honea Path High School, SC
Jennifer Roberts Smith
“Having an athletic trainer on campus when an injury occurs and them knowing exactly what to do to assess the injury and give the care needed in that instant is a huge help to schools and athletes.”
