Advanced Career Education (ACE) Center at Hermitage

ACE @ Hermitage Instructor: Email Barbara Southard

State Course Title: Sports Medicine/Athletic Training I, Sports Medicine/Athletic Training II.

The Sports Medicine course is designed to provide eleventh and twelfth-grade students with a solid foundation in the field of sports medicine/athletic training and other medical fields. Students will develop skills in the prevention, recognition, assessment, management, disposition, and rehabilitation of injuries. Students will learn the principles of designing exercise programs for healthy individuals and developing proper diets through the essentials of nutrition. Upon successful completion, students should be able to assess injuries and illnesses, provide immediate and long-term care, determine the outlook, and design a basic rehabilitation program.

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Published: February 20, 2024. Check out our podcast! Click here to listen. In our latest episode, we speak with Bobby Southard, Sports
Medicine instructor at the ACE Center at Hermitage and Sports Medicine program graduate, Emma Jarvis. We talked with Emma about her career journey and how her Sports Medicine program affected that journey. We talked with both of them about the sports medicine program and why it is a great career to explore in high school and how it can help people prevent injuries.

Published: July 27, 2021. Check out our podcast! Click here to listen. Summertime is usually associated with lots of outdoor activities like swimming. Swimming might be the most popular summertime activity during a hot summer. Every year area pools have to deal with a chronic shortage of certified lifeguards. Two years ago, Henrico CTE partnered with SwimRVA to train our Sports Medicine students to train lifeguards. Please join us as we talk to Debbie Kelo, director of programs at SwimRVA, and Ms. Bobbie Southard, our Sports Medicine teacher, about this important program that helps train more lifeguards in our area.

Published: December 15, 2020. Check out our podcast! Click here to listen. In today’s episode, we again have a great success story of an ACE Center graduate. Brock Covington graduated from our Sports Medicine course at the ACE Center at Hermitage just a few years ago and he has recently opened his own gym called Iron Built Gym. We talk to him and his Sports Medicine teacher, Ms. Bobbie, about his experiences that led to opening his own business.

Published: July 2, 2019. Click here to listen. For today’s podcast we are meeting with CTE’s Sports Medicine instructor, Bobbie Southerd, Debbie Kelo, director of programs at SwimRVA and Tedd Quinn, director of safety school, SwimRVA. We are talking about how SwimRVA helps young people how to swim, their safety programs and how we have partnered with SwimRVA to help some of our students learn to be lifeguards and CPR certified. Listen to this great episode and share it with your friends.