Hall of Fame - Phillip Hossler ATC

 

Inducted 1997

Phil Hossler's efforts in New Jersey included helping to write our 1984 Athletic Training Practice Act. He was a founder and 16 year officer in the state athletic trainer's association and was the first person in the state association to be re-elected president. His numerous professional articles, two textbooks and the two books he contributed to, have given him one of the highest profiles in high school athletic training in the nation.

He has been an athletic trainer at Madison Central and East Brunswick High Schools as well as Rutgers University. His student trainer program is respected in New Jersey and his guidelines/notebook are used by other athletic trainers. Phil created and currently directs The National High School Student Trainer Registry and the Micro Bio Medics' National High School Student Trainer Scholargrant program which are designed to expand the opportunities for high school students across the nation desiring to become athletic trainers.

His involvement with the New Jersey State Department of Education, State Interscholastic Athletic Association, State Athletic Trainers' and Coaches' Associations as well as State Games has made Phil one of the most visible athletic trainers in New Jersey.

In his first twenty years, Phil has been a national and international ambassador of athletic training having traveled to Europe and South America four times with Olympic-level teams. He is a holder of a United States patent and copyrights related to athletic training. He is the most published high school athletic trainer in the National Athletic Trainers' Association Journal and NATA NEWS over the last 20 years.

Phil Hossler, ATC has been named Micro Bio Medics' Scholastic Athletic Trainer of the Year (1993), New Jersey Interscholastic Athletic Association's Scholastic Athletic Trainer of the Year (1993), the Athletic Trainers' Society of New Jersey's Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer (1989), NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer (1995) and was one of the inaugural inductees into the ATSNJ Hall of Fame (1997).

 

 

 

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