Eight Athletic Training Students from Southwestern College have been recognized by the Kansas Athletic Trainers’ Society (KATS) honor roll.
•    First Team—Caitlin Hays, Garden Plain.
•    Second Team—Amanda Watson, Miami, Okla.; Kayla Lovell, Waukomis, Okla.
•    Honorable Mention—Blake Smith, Dexter; Rachel Vieyra, Hutchinson; Kayla Demel, Wichita; Heather Gilmore, Kinsley; and Tiffany Rieger, Manchester, Okla. 

First-team nominees had to be junior or above in academic standing, active within the professional phase of the Athletic Training Program (ATP), and achieved a 3.8/4.0 KATS honors average which is the average of the student’s spring grade-point average (GPA), fall GPA, and cumulative GPA.  Second-team nominees had to be junior or above in academic standing, active within the professional phase of the ATP, and achieved a 3.6/4.0 KATS honors average which is the average of the student’s spring grade-point average (GPA), fall GPA, and cumulative GPA.  Honorable Mention nominees had to be sophomore or above in academic standing, active within the professional phase of the ATP, and achieved a 3.4/4.0 KATS honors average which is the average of the student’s spring grade-point average (GPA), fall GPA, and cumulative GPA.

“It’s nice for our students to get recognition at the state level for their hard work in the classroom.  They are all very deserving of this honor and I am proud of each of them.”  Lisa Braun, director of athletic training education.