Sports Medicine

Vision Statement:

The University of Tennesse Southern Sports Medicine staff will provide exceptional care for the Student Athletes at University of Tennesse Southern through emergency care, injury prevention, rehabilitation, and maintaining overall health. The University of Tennesse Southern Sports Medicine staff is dedicated to each athlete and delivering the best possible care.

Mission Statement:

The University of Tennesse Southern Sports Medicine staff provides care for the student athletes at University of Tennesse Southern. Care is provided through traditional athletic training services through emergency care, injury prevention, injury management, rehabilitation, and maintaining a healthy, athletic, and injury-free lifestyle. We will educate and inform athletes when and where possible. We strive to provide care with the most efficient, clinically proven, and current technology there is.

Our program aims to help the athletes live a healthy lifestyle in many ways. Providing excellent sports medicine health care to our athletes is a primary focus. Along the way, we hope to promote a fun and safe environment for our athletes to participate in collegiate athletics. Athletes with injuries will be treated and rehabilitated to the best of our ability. The athletes will be returned to sport as soon as it is safe for them and there is no longer a threat of worse or more injury. Overall, we hope to prevent injury and decrease the amount of injuries. Lastly, we look to not only keep our athletes healthy and help them back to sport, but to educate them so that they may be able to do so. Our program will inform and inspire athletes on leading a healthy lifestyle and maintaining one, even in the future at a higher level of sport or after their sport life.

The University of Tennesse Southern Sports Medicine staff has a very strong philosophy of providing the absolute best care for each athlete. We will operate at the high standards of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) and this institution. We will do no harm and help wherever we can.

We are dedicated to providing quality care through constant re-evaluation. We will do this through internal and external assessment and will make adjustment for the better as deemed necessary.

In conclusion, our team is devoted to our student athletes and caring for them as best we can. We will do what it takes to execute and maintain an excellent program at the University of Tennesse Southern.

University of Tennesse Southern Sports Medicine Department

Director of Sports Medicine

Grant Fairchild, 20th Season (Southern Miss, 1999)

Office: (931)-363-9874

E-Mail: gfairchi@utsouthern.edu

Assistant Athletic Trainer

Madison Bennett, 1st Season

Office: (931)-363-9874

E-Mail: tbn378@utsouthern.edu