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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 with the
prestigous National Athletic Trainer's Association 2007 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 works with other companies, such as Winning Medical International
(WMI Corp) ®contracting to work indoor and outdoor action sports such as freestyle motocross, bmx bike, skateboarding,
snowboarding, inline skate and more. WMI® provides the medical support for such events as the AST Dew Action Sports
Tour®, LG Action Sports Tours®, and many more events.
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 ®, 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 WMI Corp®, as well as 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, park/street & vert tracks, supercross racing)
- Boxing
(amateur)
- Cheerleading/Mascots/Majorettes (all star, mini's/pee
wee's, jr/sr high school & collegiate)
- Cycling (amateur &
Olympic)
- 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: street, park &
vert courses)
- Skiing (amateur & Olympic Snow: Downhill, Cross
Country, Paralympic/Blind Cross Country, Moguls)
- Snowboarding
(amateur, Olympic & professional)
- Soccer (amateur, collegiate
& professional)
- Softball (amateur, high school & collegiate)
- Swimming (amateur, high school, collegiate and Olympic)
- Taekwondo
(amateur & Olympic: preschool through senior adults)
- Tennis
(amateur, high school, collegiate & professional)
- Track &
Field/Cross Country (high school, collegiate, Paralympic & Olympic)
- Volleyball
(high school, collegiate & Olympic)
- Wakeboard & Water Skiing (amateur,
professional & Olympic)
- Weightlifting (middle school, high
school, collegiate & Olympic)
- Wheelchair Basketball (amateur,
collegiate & professional)
- Wheelchair Tennis (amateur, professional
& Paralympic)
- 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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