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BSU
Athletic
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News
Letter

Happy
New
Year

January,
2005
Passing of a Great Friend 

It is with great sadness that we must report
the passing of long time BSU team physician
Matthew Roush. The following was a press release
from Jeff Reynolds, BYU Athletic
Communications.
PROVO, Utah
(Jan. 10, 2005) -- While
traveling with the BYU
women's gymnastics
team in Cancun, Mexico,
for the Cancun Classic
Invitational, team
physician Dr. Matthew
Roush suffered a heart
attack at the team's hotel.
Roush passed away
Saturday, January 8, as a
result of complications
from the heart attack. Roush's wife, Tiffany, was in
Cancun with the team and was at his side when he
passed away.
"Dr. Roush was a very dear, personal
friend," BYU head trainer George Curtis said. "I
don't think we will begin to fully comprehend this
tragic news for some time. He was a very dedicated
physician, not only to the BYU athletics program,
but also to the sports medicine program he directed
for IHC. This is a great loss. Our thoughts and
prayers are with his wife and family at this time."
Dr. Roush, who had served as a team
physician at BYU for the past year, was the director
of the Utah Valley Sports Medicine Clinic in Provo.
He also served as the director of the Sports
Medicine Fellowship program for Intermountain
Health Care's Southern Region.
Roush (41), a native of Ogden, Utah,
received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from
BYU in 1987. While attending BYU, he was also a
member of the rugby team. Roush received his
medical degree from the University of Utah and
completed his residency program at the Good
Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Phoenix,
Ariz. After his fellowship at Ball Memorial
Hospital in Muncie, Ind., he served as the associate


director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship program
at Ball Memorial Hospital. Roush also served as a
team physician for Ball State University for 10
years until being recruited to IHC in 2003.
Roush is survived by his wife Tiffany and
the couple's six children. Funeral services have
been tentatively planned for later this week.
Additional details will be published later this week.
In honor of Dr. Roush, the main flag on
campus will be lowered to half staff on Friday.
From the Director’s Office
Tom Weidner, PhD, ATC, LAT
And so here we are again with this
important opportunity to communicate with you
about our Athletic Training Education Program.
Please know that we consider you an invaluable
asset and friend. Let me give you some brief
updates regarding our students, clinical education,
and faculty/staff.
I am excited and pleased to share that both
the quality and quantity of students applying to our
Program has never been higher. We are getting
applications from many freshmen and transfer
students from throughout the state. Their GPAs,
previous athletic training student experiences,
community involvement, and professional maturity
have been terrific. These strong students help us to
maintain, and even elevate, the standards of our
Program. To a significant degree, we depend on
your referrals/recommendations for these students
to enroll at BSU. Please keep up the good work as
we are experiencing very positive growth. Too, the
students currently in the Program are bringing a
great deal of commitment and excellence to the
table. A
wonderful
example of
this is the
fact that
BSU won
its first quiz
bowl at the
IATA state
meeting in
October! We had three different teams participate.
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Our winning team now represents Indiana at the 

GLATA district competition in March, 2005. The
“Golden Scissors” plaque and many hundreds of
dollars of prize textbooks are being placed in the
Athletic Training Lab. Our overall student
attendance at this meeting was fantastic, as well.
Through this year’s Athletic Training Club
community service/fund-raising projects, we
anticipate having finances to once again bring more
students than any other university to the GLATA
winter meeting. We are very pleased and
appreciate Gary’s leadership as advisor of the club.
The clinical education portion of our
Program has also seen positive growth. This past
summer, for instance, three of our students
completed summer internships with professional or
amateur teams. This included placements with the
Indiana Fever (Liza Schuck), Indianapolis Colts
(Darren Dase), and Michigan amateur hockey
(Drew Buchanan). We note a rising interest and
motivation from our students to complete these
clinical experiences that are above and beyond
Program requirements. With the assistance of our
Medical Director (Dr. Kent Bullis), I am in the
process of establishing a menu of alternative
medical and allied medical settings/experiences
from which our senior practicum students can
choose. Examples include radiology, podiatry,
physical medicine, and chiropractcy. Dr. Stacy
Walker (our new faculty hire) is beginning to
assume the coordination/leadership of clinical
proficiency evaluation within our Program. As
well, Dr. Walker and I are developing research
grant proposals regarding evaluation of
proficiencies. I believe that BSU is once again
ahead of the curve nationally in this area. For many
of you, who are Approved Clinical Instructors
(ACIs) for our Program, please be reminded of the
continuing training requirement to maintain this
credential. Information about this requirement and
your particular status in this regard is available at
http://www.bsu.edu/web/00tgweidner/aci_completi
on_list.htm. Once again, CEUs are awarded for this
training. We deeply appreciate your commitment to
our Program expressed through maintaining this
credential and responsibility.


Our BSU Athletic Training staff continues
to be an indomitable group. While straining to meet
the demands of athletic health care, they are still
making time to provide clinical instruction and
mentorship for our athletic training students. Our
total team package is one of professional
commitment and personal relationships/support.
We are proud that Tony Cox was recognized in the
summer as the IATA collegiate athletic trainer of
the year. What an asset a professional such as Tony
is to our Program! I am also delighted to report that
we are hiring another new faculty member for next
fall. I am taking on the responsibility to capitalize
on the large student interest in our program and to
bolster the enrollment in the professional program.
I ask you to please remember Shawn and Teresa in
your thoughts and prayers. The continued physical
and emotional strain they are under is exhausting.
Because of the type of people they are, they carry
on with life without being a burden to anyone. Talk
about positive; this couple is the real deal and is a
model for all of us as we face adversity in our lives.
Request for Information
Attention all BSU athletic training alumni
and friends! I am working on creating archive of
BSU athletic training photos. This would include
any class photos, snapshots, or action photos of
your time or connection with BSU athletic training.
Those of you that were at the alumni gathering in
Baltimore saw a small preview of what I would like
to put together for the Ring of Honor/Alumni
gathering this year in Indy. This also would be a
great way to archive the rich and storied tradition of
the Ball State Athletic Training program. So please
e-mail or mail me your photo’s to the addresses
below. If you mail them to me, I will get them
scanned in and returned to you promptly.
Thank for your support and Go Cards!
Troy Hershman 92’
1804 W. Earl Dr.
Muncie, IN 47304
troyher@hotmail.com
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January,
2005
Note from Neal 

Fellow Alumni and Friends,
It is with great appreciation for all of you
that I write to you this day. Each of you has
contributed to the storied and stoic history of Ball
State University Athletic Training. From its
infancy when the legendary Sayers “Bud” Miller
first put us on the map up through the current day,
Ball State University Athletic Training has
developed and maintained a national reputation of
which we are all very proud!
This is a day and age that provides
tremendous opportunity for the athletic training
program. Never before has there been such a
terrific resolve amongst our alumni to embrace,
capture, and eternalize the wonderful history of
OUR PROGRAM… the program that each and
every one of you has helped formulate. The
challenges in the profession of athletic training are
well documented and Ball State University is
certainly not immune to these challenges. Our
alumni, friends and staff are our strength and will
continue to sustain the program.
Many of you have been very generous in
supporting the memory, posterity and eternity of the
program. We truly have something very special
here at Ball State University. Unlike many
professional opportunities that are just a job….BSU
offers an experience and a permanent place in time
and in its long standing history.
In back to back football trips this past
season, I had the unique opportunity to speak to Jim
Dickerson, Denny Miller and Rex Sharp. In a one
week span I was provided with a terrific review of
athletic training history. Bud Miller’s father was
the team physician for Pinky Newell at Purdue,
which ultimately launched Bud into his legendary
prominence in athletic training and athletic training
education. Rex’s experience as a student and head
athletic trainer at Ball State University covered the
years 1975 to 1996 with the exception of a few
years. JD’s legacy covers his days as the first
athletic training student starting in 1958 up through
the present day. His involvement with the program


has ranged from student to assistant to head athletic
trainer to program director of the education
program and even to head tennis coach.
Next year’s national convention will be one
to behold and embrace! Please mark your calendars
now and plan to attend June 12-16, 2005 in
Indianapolis. We have already begun planning
many festivities for our alumni.
In the past year the staff has completed a
comprehensive SWOT Analysis of the program
along with formulating a strategic plan. This
process in conjunction with the tremendous rallying
of alumni support give us great cause for hope and
the potential for a very bright future and a program
of leadership.
Alumni support has been absolutely
fantastic! I can not imagine another program with
such a dynamic, active and supportive alumni
following. As a group you have been generous
financially, with your moral support, suggestions,
and creative endeavors.
2004-2005 Athletic Training Students and Staff
The Cardinal Sports Medicine Society
“Ring of Honor” is a medium set up by our alumni
for our alumni and the continued advancement of
the program. The potential for the Ring and the
Fund (CVC # 880) is only limited by those of us
who comprise Ball State University Athletic
Training Alumni and Friends! The fund was
established to ensure the perpetuation of the
tradition and excellence of the program and its
remembrance of those who have helped establish
such a devout and strong program.
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2005
If you have contributed to the fund already, 

thank you very much for your financial support.
Some may not yet be in a position to make a
monetary commitment, but help out the program in
one or more of many ways. (Time, energy, moral
support, donation, teaching, etc). If you are in a
position, please consider making a financial
commitment to the Ring. It does not have to be a
lot of money to make a difference. Please consider
spreading a gift out over a 5 year period. There are
also a couple tax advantages. For example, if you
are a resident in the state of Indiana, you will
receive a tax CREDIT (that’s dollars off your tax
bill or dollars added onto your refund from your
Indiana taxes). If you are single, you will receive a
50% annual Indiana tax credit up to $100 for a $200
annual gift. If you are married, you will receive a
50% annual Indiana tax credit up to $200 for a $400
annual gift. Additionally, you may be eligible for a
federal tax deduction, potentially making a $400
annual gift to the Ring of Honor Fund only cost you
$133.
For those of you who do not know, the fund
is utilized for the perpetual memory of the program,
an appropriate reception to honor the inductees into
the ring, rings for the inductees, scholarships,
endowments, equipment needs for the program out
of the budgetary realms, and possible staffing.
Your gift can truly make a difference,
please consider your commitment today. I would
be glad to answer any questions you may have and
welcome your involvement in the Ring of Honor!
Yours in healthy Sports Medicine,
Neal
Athletic Training Club
Gary Noble, MS, ATC, LAT
Dr. Weidner and Neal are hard acts to
follow. There is not a lot left to say after reading
their pieces of this newsletter. However, I do
believe that some things are worth repeating!
Congratulations to Ben Fox, Ryan Mautz, and Ryan


Evans for winning “Knowledge Bowl” at IATA this
last October. Their photo can be seen on page 40 of
the January NATA News. Additionally
congratulations to every student that participated in
the IATA conference and competition.
As mentioned by Dr. Weidner, our fall
fundraising activity of raking leaves was once again
a fantastic success. I would like to thank everyone
who participated, especially Megan Nixon (fall
2004 graduate) for doing scheduling and contacting
of interested individuals, everything ran much
smoother this year because of her efforts.
This year over the holiday season, we once
again took part in a canned food drive during our
November meeting and a toy drive during our
December meeting/Christmas party. Last year I
knew was going to be the record-setting year for
food and toys collected, I could not have been more
wrong. This year the athletic training club gathered
just under 300 cans of food that were taken to the
Salvation Army food bank and a bag of toys that
made Santa Clause blush. I am so very proud of
our students for their continued generosity and
caring for others less fortunate!
Finally I would like to congratulate the
following students for having a 3.5 GPA or higher:
Melissa Bernier, Catherine Bowen, Scott
DiFrancesco , Amy Morton , Jennifer Short, Anna
Adams, Renee Alvey, Kristen Malony, Erin
Morton, Megan Supan, Ryan Mautz, and Liza
Schuck. It is students such as these ones
mentioned, as well as the rest of our students that
make Ball State University Athletic Training a
leader in the field