MINNEAPOLIS — Football players at all Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools received care and treatment from on-site certified athletic trainers for a second straight year thanks to a grant provided by the NFL Foundation and the Vikings in partnership with TRIA Orthopaedic Center.
Vikings Director of Sports Medicine/Head Athletic Trainer Eric Sugarman, who is in his 10th season with the team, has been instrumental in implementing the program.
Sugarman’s interest in sports medicine sparked when he was in seventh grade in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He became his high school’s first student trainer and learned lessons under Mike Macejko.