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Mission StatementThe University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sports medicine staff will provide the best possible illness and injury care, treatment, rehabilitation, and reconditioning to all intercollegiate student-athletes at UWM. We will work in cooperation with the university health center staff and community health care providers. The sports medicine staff is committed to providing all healthcare services in a professional manner that demonstrates care, concern, and compassion. We acknowledge that the student-athlete should have a positive athletic career and be able to live the rest of his/her life to its fullest. All will be done within the rules of the State of Wisconsin, the NCAA, the Horizon League, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The people responsible for keeping the Panthers healthy on the playing field and off the sideline are UWM's athletics trainers and medical consultants. The full-time staff includes Director John Ochsenwald and athletic trainers David Beine, Becky Worman, Renee Manofsky, Sue Olbrantz, Joe McBeth, Strength and Conditioning Coach Chuck Serpa, as well as Tom Labish, DPT, ATC. They are assisted by 38 undergraduate assistant athletic trainers, all of whom are working toward becoming certified athletic trainers via the Athletic Trainer Education Program, in conjunction with the Department of Human Movement Sciences. The staff also includes Team Physicians Dr. Brian Hirano, MD, and Dr. John Stech, DO, both Columbia St. Mary's-based physicians, three team orthopedists: Dr. Don Middleton, Dr. William Smith and Dr. Todd Swensen--all community-based and work through Columbia St. Mary's Hospital and Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin. There is an athletic training room in the Pavilion. In addition to teaching the undergraduate student athletic trainers, the staff cares for the more than 275 student-athletes at UWM. This includes prevention of injuries through taping, bracing, flexibility, strength, computerized nutrition programs, injury evaluation, pre- and post-practice treatments, and rehabilitation. Each year, facilities and equipment are upgraded to maintain the care for all UWM student-athletes on the cutting edge.
Strength & Conditioning
Chuck Serpa, Strength and Conditioning Coach Chuck Serpa serves as UWM's strength and conditioning coach, working with all 15 of the school's varsity sports. Steven Felde was hired as strength annd conditioning intern in 2005, before joining the staff full-time in 2006. Serpa has spearheaded a number of positive developments in the strength and conditioning program, highlighted by the new dedicated athletics weight room in the new Pavilion. The strength training area features free weights, resistance machinery and specialized motor-skill and coordination equipment, all designed to condition athletes, increasing their strength, power, speed, endurance and agility. UWM's strength and conditioning program also incorporates plenty of work with athletes to develop and retain natural flexibility, jumping skills and reaction times. Serpa has also implemented the department's first training manual that contains nutritional information, along with general strength training exercises and sport-specific strength training exercises. He has also brought more structure and organization to the strength and conditioning area. Finally, Serpa has instituted a summer training program so student-athletes can continue their training year-round.
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