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Published on: 8/16/2007
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Guido Arquilla, head athletic trainer at Lyons Township High School, tapes the ankles of Mike Blackwood before a recent practice.
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Guido Arquilla is an athletic trainer at Lyons Township High School and said even in the preseason, he puts in a lot of hours tending to the needs of the football team.
"I usually get here at about 5:45 (a.m.), with the boys getting here at 6:15," Arquilla said."We stick around even when they're on their break and we stay through their second session at about 2 o'clock.
"Usually I'm not out of here until about 3:30 (p.m.) in the preseason."
Arquilla isn't just a trainer, though, he also teaches introduction to sports medicine and health at LT.So he's usually at school before 7:30 a.m., teaches a full schedule, then takes over his athletic trainer duties after school during the school year.
"A typical Friday during football season, it might be midnight before I get home," Arquilla said.
Arquilla's situation is more unique just because he teaches at the school.
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As many duties as Arquilla has at LT, he doesn't look at being a trainer as work.Being a sports fan, he enjoys being on the field and around the athletes, coaches and fans.
"When it comes to the athletic training part, it's more than a job," said Arquilla, who also notes a broken neck as the worst injury he's seen - when he was a student trainer at LT in the late 1980s, no less.
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"We'll get them involved, sometimes we'll go recruiting, but most of the time they come to me and we'll help get them started," Arquilla said of how LT goes about finding student trainers.
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