Joseph Eberhardt and Dawson Sports Medicine were preparing for a 3-peat at the time of this recording. Spoiler alert they placed 3rd in the 2025 state championships.

Chris Shaddock brought me into Sports Medicine as an eighth grader

GHATS hosts a workshop for student Athletic Trainer Aides.

The workshop is to educate and expose students to the profession.

Numerous courses and rotations provide students with opportunities to learn and explore their interests.

I was uncoordinated and unathletic, and I needed people who understood me.

My sophomore year was the first year of the QuizBowl in GHATS.

Chris told them: Do not embarrass me, watch the quiz bowl, and learn.

Learn it, love it, win it.

My senior year, I wanted to keep competing and so we were doing speed drills, we acquired a quiz bowl buzzer, we did scrimmages…And we finally won.

I went on to college and came back to GHATS to recruit the student AT aides from Houston.

We won 5 championships and have been in the finals 7 times.

I began developing the program so that we as a staff, are involved.

We start studying for them in August.

As part of our student AT workshop, before school starts.

If we win this year, we will be the leading state title holders in our entire district.

We study one 30-minute session each week starting from week one.

13 students were at each of these sessions

I write 200 new questions each year so the students can not just memorize them.  I introduce them only at the scrimmage.

Region 6 has created a clause that requires the question to be fully read before the students can buzz in.

The quality of competition has increased 

1 year at Texas A&M Corpus Christi we competed.

It was a different style quiz bowl that was more like Kahoot.

The last two years was at Tarelton State.  We came in early Sunday to settle in

Then they host the AT Olympics.

Monday morning they start the state competition like a track meet.  Multiple events and your points total place you.

This year there is a rubric that enables the student to learn exactly what is being required.

After lunch was the quiz bowl just like GHATS.

Tournament style with buzzers, head to head.

They have a skills requirement list that they must learn and have signed off on by the professionals.

Both

I push hard but it’s because they show up and want to be there.

ENJOY IT – the whole process

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