#2 What are your strengths?

One of my biggest strengths is that I am a people person. I love being around people, conversing with them, helping them, anything that involves interaction with people. For athletic training, this is a good attribute to have because you are constantly interacting with people, whether it’s the athletes, coaches, parents, or administration. You also have to communicate with all these people. A big part of athletic training is communication: educating the athlete on what is wrong and what they need to do to get better, explaining the injury to the parents, and telling the coaches that that athlete will be out of play for an x amount of time. If I wasn’t a people person, communicating these things would be very difficult. Another good thing about being a people person in athletic training is that I feel like if someone is a people person, it would be easier to trust someone. Trust is a big thing because the athlete has to trust that the athletic training is going to make them better.