Former Tusculum College athletic training student and cross country runner Jason Seaton recognized in the “NATA News,” the official publication of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.
Seaton, a 2011 Tusculum graduate, is currently serving as the certified athletic trainer at Beauregard High School in Opelika, Ala.
During an Alabama high school football game this past October, Seaton witnessed a player from the opposing team go down. Once at the scene, Seaton realized the player could not move his ankle or toes.
EMS helped Seaton carefully spine board the injured athlete and Life Flight was called to the scene. The athlete remained in the intensive care unit at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center and began to get feeling back into his lower extremities on the fourth day of hospitalization.
Seaton, a native of Greeneville, Tenn., was a four-year letterman on the Tusculum cross country team from 2007-2010. He was a four-time member of the South Atlantic Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll and the Tusculum Athletic Director’s Honor Roll. The West Greene High School graduate was also a member of the Dean’s List, President’s List, Iota Tau Alpha Alpha Chi and was the recipient of the Pinnacle Award.