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Background information on Owner, Trish Bare Grounds |
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| 1999 World Championships, Edmonton, Canada |
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| Trish with 2000 Olympian Kay Poe |
Trish Bare Grounds is a Certified
Athletic Trainer (nationally certified by the National Athletic Trainer's Association) and Licensed in the State of Florida
Allied Health Professions, as well as Licensed by the Medical Board of the State of Pennsylvania. Trish
is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Florida preparing to defend her doctoral dissertation in Sports Medicine/Athletic
Training on the "The Biomechanical Analysis of Forces from Kicks to the Head in the Sport of Taekwondo and the Head Injuries
Sustained".
| Trish with 2000 Olympic Qualifier Jason Torres |
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| 1999 Olympic Qualification Tournament, Croatia |
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| 1999 World Championships, Edmonton, Canada |
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| Trish with Bronze Medalist Josh Coleman |
Trish Bare Grounds is an accomplished Certified
Athletic Trainer in her own right, as a Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC), published author, classroom instructor, and researcher.
Trish has received honors from the National Cheerleader's Association & National Dance Alliance ®as
Athletic Trainer of the Year every year for the past 12 years. Trish also has been honored in 2007 with the
prestigous National Athletic Trainer's Association Service Award. Trish has been the USTU, USA Taekwondo
& National Collegiate Taekwondo Association's Medical Committee Chairman since 1994, where she has been honored with
recognition for her contributions numerous times. Trish also proudly became the Medical Director in 2007 for AAU Taekwondo
National Championships, hoping for many continued years of service.
| 2000 Olympians, Taekwondo, Sydney, Australia |
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| Steven Lopez, Trish, Barbara Kunkel & Kay Poe |
Trish moved Bare Essential Sports Medicine Co LLC and her family to Pennsylvania in order to be physically closer
to the professional action sports athletes who live and train at Camp Woodward year-round in hopes of providing them some
much needed medical attention for the injuries they sustain while training for their extensive event season. Any professional
action sport athlete using the facilities has the availability to receive injury evaluation, treatment and rehab throughout
the year at no cost to the athlete. Trish also works summer camps at Camp Woodward as part of the phenominal athletic
training program created and operated by Camp Woodward's own Misty Carter.
Trish and BESM work with other companies, such as Winning Medical International (WMI) ® &
ASMF ®contracting to work indoor and outdoor action sports such as fmx, bmx, skateboarding, snowboarding, inline skate
and more. WMI® provides the medical support for such events as the AST Dew Action Sports Tour®, Winter
Dew Tour ®, Gravity Games ®, LG Action Sports Tours®, and many more events. Action Sports Medicine
Foundation (ASMF)® is a non-profit group providing medical coverage to the action sports world, particularly moto &
arena cross racing, bmx, skateboard & wakeboarding events, including Mini O's, World Mini's & Loretta Lynn's/Nationals.
Trish has worked with numerous
high level sports including: Division I Sports at the University of Miami ®; the first training site for the
inaugural season of Major League Soccer ® at Lynn University; post-season training site for the Miami Heat ®
and Cleveland Cavaliers®; numerous Olympic sports from taekwondo and judo to gymnastics, fencing and weightlifting;
and the professional athletes in the various action sports tours covered by BESM itself, along with WMI Corp® & ASMF
®, and more traditional sports organizations PGA & LPGA, MLS, MLB, NBA & NFL athletes.
Trish
also works with Parlympic and disabled sports athletes from amateur, collegiate and professional teams, with their unique
needs for such sports as wheelchair basketball, wheelchair tennis and roadracing.
| 2006 Pan Am Championships, Cali, Columbia |
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| 2006 USA Taekwondo National Team |
| Daughter Olivia & Stepdaughter Heather |
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| The Joys of Trish's Life |
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| Trish's Daughter Olivia |
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| Olivia & Brennan 2007 |
| Olivia & Gretchen Sheckler |
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| Olivia gets to meet all kinds of cool people! |
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| Alaska High School Wrestling Championships |
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| Sitka, AK - December 2007 |
Trish Bare Grounds has worked with many varied athletic teams and individual athletes, both nationally
within the USA & internationally on just about every continent of the world. Athletes have ranged in age and ability from
pee wees to high school, collegiate, senior, Olympic, semi-pro and professional sports, including the following:
- Archery (Paralympic &
Olympic)
- Badminton (Olympic)
- Baseball (t-ball, middle
school/high school, collegiate & professional)
- Basketball (amateur, high school, collegiate
& professional)
- BMX (amateur & professional: dirt, flatland, park, street & vert,
supercross racing)
- Boxing (amateur)
- Cheerleading/Mascots/Majorettes
(all star, mini's/pee wee's, jr/sr high school & collegiate)
- Cycling (amateur,
Olympic & professional)
- Dance (predadolescent through collegiate: ballet, pointe,
lyrical, ballroom, funk, hip-hop, kick, pom, tap, jazz)
- Diving (high school, collegiate
& Olympic)
- Equestrian (Olympic, amateur & professional: western, trail, jump,
Steeple Chase & English Dressage, seasoned rider/competitor herself)
- Fencing
(Olympic)
- Field Hockey (collegiate)
- Figure Skating (Olympic)
- Football
(amateur, high school, collegiate Div I, II & III, semi-pro & professional)
- Free-style
Motocross (amateur & professional)
- Golf (amateur, collegiate & professional
– PGA & LPGA Players)
- Gymnastics/Rhythmic Gymnastics (amateur, collegiate &
Olympic)
- Handball (Olympic)
- Ice Hockey (collegiate)
- Judo
(Olympic)
- Motocross Racing (amateur: preschool to adult; & professional)
- Rugby
(collegiate)
- Sailing (Olympic)
- Shooting (Olympic)
- Skateboard
(amateur & professional: park, street & vert)
- Skiing (amateur &
Olympic Snow: Downhill, Cross Country, Freestyle (pipe, rail & slope, Paralympic/Blind Cross Country, Moguls)
- Snowboarding
(amateur, Olympic & professional: pipe, rail & slope)
- Soccer (amateur,
high school travel teams, collegiate & professional)
- Softball (amateur, high
school & collegiate)
- Swimming (amateur, high school, collegiate and Olympic)
- Taekwondo
(amateur & Olympic: preschool through senior adults; poomse, boardbreaking, point sparring & Olympic style sparring)
- Tennis
(amateur, high school, collegiate & professional)
- Track & Field/Cross Country
(high school, collegiate, Paralympic & Olympic)
- Volleyball (high school,
collegiate & Olympic)
- Wakeboard & Water Skiing (amateur, Olympic & professional)
- Weightlifting
(middle school, high school, collegiate & Olympic)
- Wheelchair Basketball (amateur,
collegiate & professional)
- Wheelchair Tennis (amateur, Paralympic & professional)
- Wrestling
(high school, collegiate & Olympic)
| West Palm Beach Tropics, Senior Pro Baseball |
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| Trish with Tito Landrum of the St. Louis Cardinals |
| Jr World Taekwondo Championships, Istanbul,Turkey |
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| Trish & Sinaz Shabazi |
Trish is also a contracted Doping Control Officer for the United States Anti-Doping
Agency®, who provide in and out-of competition drug testing of Olympic, World and National Team members of Olympic sports.
But of all of her accomplishments Trish is most proud of having not only touched the lives of many young
athletes and medical professionals, but making even a small difference in their lives, and having an opportunity to see them
shine brighter than they ever imagined.
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Photos provided courtesy of : Bill Waite
Photography, Bill Spivey & Making Smiles Happen, Buddy Ramsey, Terry Mechalske & Freeze Frame Photography, Master
Jimmy Kim, Michael Tang, Susan Ryan & Custom Creations Photography and lastly Trish Bare Grounds. All images
and photographs are either Trademark Registered or Copyright (2006-2008) protected on this site. All rights reserved.
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