Trainer Olympics

I think last night was the most fun I've ever had in a training room. Each year, the Athletic Training department hosts the "Trainer Olympics". The trainers, minus the certified trainers, are split up into two teams with the Graduate Assistants as captains. This year we had the "Sternum Stabbers" against my team, the "Gauze-n-ators". To prepare, our team chose team colors and decided what all we would wear. We ended up making t-shirts and giving everybody names of different gauze terms. My name was "Fresh". And if I do say so myself, my shirt was pretty impressive. The number on the back of my shirt was outlined i gold with gold stripes, and with green and white dots between each stripe in different rows. I was pretty proud of myself; I've never been very creative, or creative at all. When I walk into the training room, my captain throws me a roll of gauze to decorate with. We start off with pizza and then move on to the scavenger hunt. In my opinion this was the worst idea ever made by athletic trainers. We ate a ton of pizza and pop... and then we ran around campus trying to be the first to find all of the clues. We lost that event. Then we moved on to Jeopardy. My team lost that event too. After that, we moved onto the skill events. These included one handed events such as ankle taping and hip spicas, blindfolded events like ankle taping and shoulder spica (blindfolded shoulder spica was my event. I lost by a split second), behind the back ankle taping, fastest ankle taping, and "Bloody Ankle" taping (taping an ankle with two gloves on). Throughout all of these events, there were quite a few debates on cheating. Stirrups were a big issue because it is almost impossible to do three stirrups without tearing the tape, and tearing the tape means extra time. After a few events, we had finally taken the lead. Unfortunately we ended up losing, but we still got the shirts that the winning team "won".