Convention Tracks Are Back!
After debuting in 2025, Tracks return to help you dive deeper into key topics shaping the future of athletic training: Sleep, Entrepreneurship and Athletic Directors.
Each curated track features a series of sessions designed to expand your expertise and connect you with leading voices across the profession and beyond.
Sleep Track: Rest, Recovery, and Readiness
Sleep is the ultimate performance enhancer, yet one of the most underutilized tools in athlete care. This Sleep Track brings together experts to explore the science, assessment and practical applications of sleep in sports medicine.
Together, these sessions will equip you with practical tools to evaluate, monitor and optimize sleep as part of a holistic approach to athlete recovery and performance.
Beyond the Tactical Nap: Sleep and Musculoskeletal Injury in the Military
Examine how sleep quantity and quality influence injury risk, with insights drawn from military populations. Learn how simple screening tools can help identify athletes at higher risk and guide targeted interventions.
Leveraging Sleep for Optimal Athletic Performance and Injury Prevention
Discover how sleep health affects performance, recovery, and overall well-being. This session translates current research into actionable strategies for integrating sleep-focused interventions into daily clinical practice.
Sleep, Nutrition, and Technology: The Untapped Trinity of Recovery and Risk Reduction in Sports Medicine
Explore the powerful intersection of sleep, nutrition, and technology — and how athletic trainers can use evidence-based approaches to improve sleep quality, reduce injury risk, and enhance readiness.
Entrepreneurship Track: Innovation, Impact, and Independence
Athletic trainers are increasingly expanding their reach beyond traditional settings, building businesses, consulting and creating new models of care.
This Entrepreneurship Track will empower you to think differently about your skills, your career, and your impact on the profession.
Together, these sessions will challenge you to think boldly, embrace creativity and harness entrepreneurial strategies that elevate both your practice and the athletic training profession.
Entrepreneurship in Athletic Training: Exploring Business Opportunities for Athletic Trainers
Discover the diverse business models available to athletic trainers, from private practice to consulting and performance centers. This session outlines key considerations, start-up essentials and strategies for turning your professional expertise into a thriving business.
Practical Strategies for Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Learn how to apply innovation principles to solve real-world problems in athletic training. Explore how to identify opportunities, manage risk and lead change within your organization or independent venture.
Profit From Your Practice: Leveraging Experience for Innovative Career Growth
Translate your clinical experience into professional value. This session focuses on career growth, monetizing your expertise and developing entrepreneurial mindsets that expand your influence and create new pathways within and beyond athletic training.
Specialty Track: Athletic Directors
Athletic Director Day
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 | Day 1
Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Aligned understanding of roles and responsibilities
- Shared language around safety and decision-making
- Practical tools to reduce institutional and legal risk
- Stronger working relationships between clinical and administrative leaders
- Clearer role alignment
- Improved communication strategies
- Reduced institutional and legal risk
- Stronger partnership around athlete safety and compliance
Day 1 Experience at a Glance
9:00–10:00 AM
Exclusive Expo Hall Access
Certified Professionals & Athletic Directors Only
- Athlete safety and emergency preparedness
- Risk mitigation and compliance solutions
- Staffing, equipment, and technology for athletics programs
10:00 AM–12:20 PM
Curated Education Sessions for Athletic Directors
10:00–10:55 AM
Recommended Sessions
Athletic Training Parallels with Public Health
A Call for Updated Screening Practices
Motion as Medicine: Using Exercise as a Pain Management Modality
10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Extended Learning Options (Optional)
Thursday Night Walk Through: Practicing Before the Emergency
HI-HO, HI-HO, It’s Off to Practice We Go: Enhancing Retention in Emergency and Sideline Care
11:25 AM–12:20 PM
Recommended Sessions
Legal and Ethical Implications of Technology in the Clinic and the Classroom
Where Helmets Help—and Where They Don’t: A Discussion about Helmet and Headgear Use in Modern Sports
Midday (Time TBD)
Press Conferences / Industry Briefings
- National safety initiatives
- Policy or legal updates
- Media narratives impacting athletics and sports medicine
1:15–3:15 PM
Afternoon Education: Recommended AD Sessions
1:15–2:10 PM (Choose One)
Return-to-Learn: What to Do for University and College Student-Athletes
“Tales from the Pit”: High-Risk / HALO Cases in Sports Medicine
Living the Dream (and the Reality): Managing Career Growth and Family Care in Athletic Training
1:15–3:15 PM (Extended Options – Optional)
Enhancing Athletic Recovery: Practical Applications of Olympic Lifts in Rehabilitation
Post-Traumatic BPPV: Simplifying Assessment, Treatment, and Referral
2:40–3:35 PM
Policy, Risk & Recovery Focus
When One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Regional Adaptation of WBGT Monitoring for School Athletics
Sleep, Nutrition, and Technology: The Untapped Trinity of Recovery and Risk Reduction
4:05–5:00 PM
Late Afternoon Sessions (Recommended)
Leveraging Sleep for Optimal Athletic Performance and Injury Prevention
The Continuum of Care: Bridging the Gap Between Rehab and Return to Athletic Performance
5:30–6:30 PM
Athletic Director & Athletic Trainer Happy Hour
Invitation-Only Reception
- Continued relationship-building
- Peer connection
- Reflection on the shared learning experience