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Athletic Training Facilities


The U-M Athletic Campus Map from the mgoblue site. Click on map to enlarge.

Introduction

There are currently thirteen Athletic Training Rooms that service University of Michigan student athletes. These include two main and eleven satellite facilities. The main facilities are open from 7:30 AM to 6 PM Monday through Friday and on weekends as needed for sport coverage. These facilities are used to provide morning treatment and injury rehabilitation to the student athletes. The main athletic training rooms also house the offices of the certified athletic trainers on staff.

The satellite facilities are used to provide athletic training services to varsity teams during their scheduled practice times. These athletic training rooms typically are open 45 minutes prior to practices and close when post-practice treatments are completed. The satellite athletic training rooms are also used during home events at their respected facilities.

 

Main Training Rooms

Schembechler Hall

Located on the main level of Schembechler Hall, this is U-M's largest athletic training facility. It serves as the main training room for football, men's basketball, men's hockey, men's and women's golf, and wrestling. Morning treatments and injury rehabilitations for these programs are performed here. In the afternoon it's used for pre-practice treatments and taping, injury rehabilitation, and post-practice treatments for the football program. With the aid of a Foot Tech orthotic system the staff athletic trainers can construct custom fit orthotics which are used to correct biomechanical abnormalities of the lower extremity.

A medical suite area includes offices of the team physicians, 3 private exam rooms, a conference room, and a storage room for medication and other medical supplies.

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Canham Natatorium

The U-M men's and women's swimming teams call Canham Natatorium home. Located between the IM Sports Building and the Canham Swimming pool, the "Nat" houses offices of the certified athletic trainers for the following sports: gymnastics, women's basketball, volleyball, softball, baseball, soccer, field hockey, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's track and field, and men's and women's tennis.,

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Satellite Training Rooms

Cliff Keen Arena

The Cliff Keen Arena Athletic Training Room is used by the women's volleyball and men's gymnastics programs. It's used daily for pre- and post-practice treatments, injury rehabilitation, and taping. Its equipment includes: an ice machine, hydrocollator, whirlpool, a therapeutic ultrasound unit, and a high volt muscle stimulation unit. There are also assorted dumbbells, theraband/tubing, a body blade, lower extremity range of motion and proprioceptive training equipment, and a Swiss exercise ball available for use in injury rehabilitation. Stationary bicycles, a rowing machine, and a nordic track are also found here. This facility is used by the women's gymnastics and wrestling programs during home competitions.

This athletic training room is maintained and operated by a certified staff athletic trainer and 2-3 student athletic trainers.

The Coliseum

The Coliseum Athletic Training Room is the satellite facility for the women's gymnastics program. This facility is used to provide treatments and injury rehabilitation during team practices.

This athletic training room is equipped with an ice machine, hydrocollator, small whirlpool, therapeutic ultrasound unit, and a high volt muscle stimulation unit. Injury rehabilitation equipment includes: 2 swiss exercises balls, assorted theraband/dumbells, and lower extremity range of motion and proprioceptive training devices. Stationary bicycles and a treadmill are located outside of the athletic training room.

The Coliseum Athletic Training Room is maintained and operated by a certified staff athletic trainer and 1-2 student athletic trainers.

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Crisler Arena

The Crisler Arena Athletic Training Room handles the wrestling and men's and women's basketball programs.

This facility is equipped with an ice machine, a hydrocollator, a large whirlpool, and an electrotherapy/ultrasound combination unit. Assorted theraband/dumbells, cuff weights, medicine balls, and lower extremity range of motion and proprioceptive training equipment are available and used in injury rehabilitation. In addition, there is a varsity weight training facility located in which is also utilized for injury rehabilitation.

This area is maintained and operated by 2 certified staff athletic trainers, 1 certified graduate assistant athletic trainer, and 3-5 student athletic trainers.

Fisher Stadium

The Fisher Stadium Athletic Training room is the satellite facility for the men's baseball program. It handling AT operations for both baseball practices and home contests.

This athletic training room is equipped with an ice machine, hydrocollator, a large whirlpool, a therapeutic ultrasound unit, and a high volt muscle stimulation unit.

The facility is maintained and operated by a certified staff athletic trainer and a student athletic trainer.

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Michigan Stadium

This Athletic Training Room is used only on home football game days. Pre- and post-game treatments, as well as pre-game taping, are performed here.

A new team training and locker facility was completed for the Fall 2003 season.

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Rendering of the new Michigan Stadium facility. photo: Athletic Dept. and mgoblue.com

Softball Facility

The Softball Building is currently under construction. When completed it will include an athletic training room that will serve the women's softball program.

It will be equipped with an ice machine, a whirlpool, a therapeutic ultrasound unit, and an electrotherapy unit, and will be maintained and operated by a certified staff athletic trainer and 1-2 student athletic trainers.

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South Ferry Building

The South Ferry Building opened in the summer of 1997. The athletic training room in this building serves the women's soccer and field hockey programs.

This facility has separate treatment, hydrotherapy, rehabilitation, and taping areas. The treatment area is equipped with an electrotherapy unit, an ultrasound unit, and a hydrocollator. A whirlpool and an ice machine are located in the hydrotherapy room. The rehabilitation area consists of stationary bikes, a stairmaster, Swiss exercise balls, a Back system back stretcher, lower extremity range of motion and proprioceptive training equipment, assorted therapeutic tubing/theraband, and ankle weights.

The South Ferry Building Athletic Training Room is maintained and operated by 2 certified staff athletic trainers and 3-4 student athletic trainers.

Varsity Tennis Center

The Varsity Tennis Center opened in the fall of 1996. This athletic training room serves the men's and women's tennis programs, and is used daily for pre- and post-practice treatments, injury rehabilitation, and taping.

Its equipment includes: an ice machine, a hydrocollator, a large whirlpool, assorted theraband and hand dumbbells, as well as plyoballs, used in injury rehabilitation. Treadmills, stairmasters, and bikes are located nearby and are also used for injury rehabilitation.

The Varsity Tennis Center Athletic Training Room is staffed by 2 student athletic trainers.

Yost Ice Arena

The Yost Arena Athletic Training Room is used by the men's ice hockey program for practices and home games.

This athletic training room is equipped with an ice machine, a hydrocollator, 2 large full body whirlpools, a massage unit, a therapeutic ultrasound unit, and an electrotherapy unit. Assorted theraband and hand dumbells, as well as lower extremity range of motion and proprioceptive training equipment are available for use in injury rehabilitation. In addition, there is a varsity weight training facility here, used for injury rehabilitation.

This facility is staffed by a certified staff athletic trainer and a student athletic trainer.

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