Off the Roll

Episode 5:  Dr. Alan Habansky was an orthopedic surgeon in Muncie, IN for over 35 years and 30 of those years as a team physician for Ball State Athletics.  His story weaves in and out of experiences and people like a woven blanket.  From being a classmate of Dr. Anthony Fauci during his undergrad at Holy Cross to being a Sports Medicine Fellow with Dr. James Andrews at the Hughston Clinic, and a few other places along the way.  He found his calling in Muncie, IN.  Today we talk about these experiences.  Some Ball State athletic department stories,  the athletic trainers he worked with at Ball State, his mission work in the Ukraine and few life stories that help us understand that it is not where you are at but the people you help along the way that is important.

Angie Miller has been an Certified Athletic Trainer for over 30 years.  She started out as an AT student at Ball State graduating in 1989 and then off to Ohio University as graduate assistant in a small high school.  After a short stint at a high school outreach position in Columbus, OH she landed at Avon High School, Avon, IN and has been there ever since.  She was their first full time athletic trainer and has built the program to have two other outreach AT's to help her with athletic training access to the student athletes at Avon.  Angie currently serves on the NATA historical archives committee as well as the Indiana Athletic Trainers Association History and Archives committee.  An IATA Hall of Fame member and a Cardinal Sports Medicine Society Ring of Honor member, Her contributions to the profession have been immense in her career.  This allows for some excellent stories to share in this episode of Off the Roll!  

When you say the name Leto around a group of Athletic Trainers in Indiana most will think about Ball State Athletic Training and few more will think about Hobart Jr Sr High School.  Mark Leto has been an athletic trainer for over 30 years and worked in all types of settings as an athletic trainer.  For the past 29 years he has been the athletic trainer at Hobart Jr Sr High school in Hobart, IN, His hometown.  Mark has worked in the college, professional and clinical settings in his time as an athletic trainer.  Mark tells his story today and what some great stories he has.  From his time at Ball State, his stint with the Indianapolis Colts and finally coming home to Brickie land, Hobart, IN.  In his spare time he is a reserve police officer in the Hobart police department.  Mark is also a husband to his wife Amiee and a father to his two children Ryan and Sydney.  

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Glen Snow aka "Snowball" has been involved in athletic training for over 50 years. He is an Indiana Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Famer.  He was a student of Sayers Bud Miller, Jim Dickerson and Ron Sendre.  He worked with Bud Miller at the University of Washington and eventually be became the Athletic Trainer at Floyd Central HS in Floyds Knob, IN.  At Floyd Central he was the Nutriment High School Athletic Trainer of the Year and over saw the construction of one of the largest and most modern high school athletic training rooms of the time.  He went to work for NATA Hall of Famer Dick Hoover with Physical Therapy Services and helped open over 100 private physical therapy clinics.  Glen's career journey has been unique.  He stories are fascinating as he tells them.  This is the first of hopefully a few more podcasts to tell his complete story and in some ways it not quite complete yet.

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Welcome to Off the Roll!  This is the first of hopefully many episodes.  We talk with Ron Sendre, alumni, former assistant AT, Co-Head AT and AT Education program director at Ball State University.  Ron spent 8 years at BSU and then left to go to Central Michigan University where he developed and instituted the first AT major in the the United States.  He tells his story about that process.  How he worked with Sayers " Bud" Miller and carried on Bud's vision for the AT profession through AT education.  He also talks about his good friend and former co-worker Jim Dickerson.  Great stories from a great contributor to the AT profession!