PLAY Campaign: Texas Rangers Event

The PLAY Campaign

PLAY, Promoting a Lifetime of Activity for Youth, is a campaign of the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society in conjunction with the Taylor Hooton Foundation. The PLAY Campaign is designed to promote awareness for healthy and active living among America's youth. The Taylor Hooton Foundation brings the component of educating about the dangers of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED's). The PLAY Campaign travels to all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums and teaches these important messages to thousands of children. This blog will follow the campaign around the country and post pictures from the events and interviews from people directly involved.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Texas Rangers Event

We had our first PLAY Campaign of the year on Saturday and it was a huge success. We hosted around 85 kids from RBI and JR. RBI of Dallas at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Joining the Rangers head athletic trainer Jamie Reed, asst. athletic trainer Kevin Harmon, all-star 2nd baseman Ian Kinsler, catcher Matt Treanor, and Don and Donald Hooton from the Taylor Hooton Foundation, the kids got to do fun activities on the field and in the training room.

There were 4 stations that the kids went through:

1. Agility Drills with Kevin Harmon in the outfield

2. Learning about eating healthy and the importance of taking care of yourself in the Training Room with Jamie Reed

3. Hitting baseballs in the batting cages with Ian Kinsler and Matt Treanor

4. Learning about the dangers of performance enhancing drugs (PED's) and the side effects that come along with it's use in the Media Room with the Taylor Hooton Foundation.

The kids spent 15 minutes at each station and then came together at the end for a great group picture in the outfield. It was a very successful event with a great media turnout. Check out some of these pictures from Saturday's event-