Rich Carey

I was born in Aberdeen, WA. After graduation, I enrolled in Grays Harbor Junior College seeking a pre-physical therapy major. Upon graduating with my Associate's Degree from there, I enrolled as a health education major at the University of Washington (Seattle). Also worked as a student athletic trainer in their Athletic Program. Upon graduation in 1971, I stayed at the University doing some post-BA work until was hired in 1972 by the Department of Orthopaedics on a federal grant (via Dept. of H.E.W.) as a research athletic trainer to study athletic injuries at the high school level. I was assigned to Garfield HS in Seattle until 1975. From there I enrolled at Penn State University on a grad assistantship to do sports injury research. Upon graduation in 1976, I was hired at Lyons Township High School in LaGrange, IL as a health educator and their school's first head athletic trainer.
Since retiring in 2005, I have been active in the state athletic trainers association as a Board member and now as its archivist. Other interests now in retirement include barbershop chorus and quartet singing; publishing cookbooks for charity; stamp collecting for US and Germany only; movie collection; WWII reading; and costume creations.