Alabama Athletic Trainers' Association ALATA eBlast News
October 29, 2008
   

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In This Issue:
•   Alabama Students needed for NATA iLEAD
•   SEATA Election Results
Runoff Election for Treasurer
   
   
 
Alabama Students needed for NATA iLEAD

To Fellow Members of ALATA,

The NATA has started a Student Leadership Program for Athletic Training Students that will be held in Washington, DC immediately previous to NATA Capitol Hill Day.  The program is called iLEAD.  ALATA would like to sponsor 3 students from Alabama to represent our state in this excellent program.  ALATA is prepared to pay for the flight, hotel, program fee, and food for each student that is selected.  The program is February 21-23, 2009.  The iLEAD itinerary can be seen at http://nata.org/2009febevents/iLead%20Web%20Site%20Info%20Clean.pdf.  We are very excited about this program and look forward to having our students in Washington standing with Certified Athletic Trainers to help improve our profession.  For all those that are interested you must be a current student of an athletic training program and need to send a letter of application, resume, and 1 letter of recommendation to Bryan Combs.  To expedite this you can and are encouraged to email them to bryancombs@uab.edu.  You can mail these to 5456 Virginia Way, Bessemer, AL 35022.  The last day ALATA will accept these applications will be November 7, 2008.  So, if you are a student and are interested or know a well qualified student to represent Alabama please send in your paperwork.  If you have any questions regarding this you can contact Bryan Combs at 205-260-0478.

Sincerely;

Bryan Combs
Vice-President
ALATA    

 

SEATA Election Results
Runoff Election for Treasurer

The SEATA Election Committee announces the results of the 2008 SEATA Officer Election.  Thank you to those members that took the time to cast your ballot.  Of the 3,565 eligible SEATA voters, there were only 313 valid ballots cast.  Congratulations to MaryBeth Horodyski and R.T. Floyd for being re-elected to SEATA President and District Director, respectively.

According to SEATA By-Laws, officer elections require a majority popular vote.  No candidate for SEATA Treasurer received a majority of the votes and a runoff election is necessary between Jim Mackie and Gerard White.  The runoff election will begin on Friday, October 24 and run until midnight EDT Friday, November 7, 2008.  We will again utilize an electronic ballot and members have the opportunity to print the ballot
and mail it to our accountant.  To view candidate bios, obtain a printable ballot, or link to the voting webpage, go to www.seata.org/elec08b.htm.