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Meg Abfall Frens, Class of 1996
While at Hope I played basketball my freshman year, was an Orientation Assistant and served as a student athletic trainer. I worked with men's lacrosse, women's volleyball, men's and women's track, women's soccer, men's basketball, softball, and football during my duties as a student athletic trainer. I also completed internships at Zeeland High School, Holland Community Hospital Rehabilitation Clinic, and Lakewood Family Medicine. After attending Hope I was accepted to Indiana University as the graduate assistant with the women's volleyball team. My favorite pastimes are found outdoors. I enjoy camping, hiking, biking, running, walking, going to the beach, tubing, sledding, basketball, volleyball, football, reading, writing, drawing, and traveling. I graduated from Hope in 1996 Magna Cum Laude while being on the Dean's list 7/8 semesters and maintaining a Presidential Scholarship. I received the Kathleen Ann White '76 Memorial Award in Kinesiology and a National Athletic Trainers Association Undergraduate Scholarship as a junior. As a senior I received the NASPE Outstanding Major of the Year Award in Kinesiology, a National Athletic Trainers Association Graduate Scholarship, and the Doc Green Memorial Scholarship. I was also presented with the Vanderbilt Senior Award for 95-96. I came to Hope College because of the people I met, the education I knew I would receive and the environment in which to take it all in. Holland is a great place to study and relax, both at the same time. Also, being from a small high school, the one-on-one treatment from professors increased my ability to learn, and the smaller number of students allowed me to form closer friendships. The faculty at Hope College wants to see you grow into a better person physically, mentally and spiritually. Being a three-sport athlete in high school I have great respect for those who continue to participate at the collegiate level. I enjoy watching the events and always felt that I would enjoy being involved helping others on a medical level. Athletic training allows me to combine my love for sports, medicine and helping others into a career that can bring me new experiences everyday. What I liked about my experience as a student athletic trainer at Hope College was the hands-on learning I was able to do. I had contact with the athletes which gave me feedback on a more functional level and courses that challenged me to learn more about my profession. As an underclassman I was constantly trying to learn, and as an upperclassman I was trying to learn and teach at the same time. The combination suited me very well. (Editor's Note: Meg graduated with her master's degree from Indiana University's NATA Approved graduate program in athletic training in 1997. After working as a certified athletic trainer at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania for one year, she joined the athletic training faculty at Hope College where she served for two years as an Athletic Trainer and Visiting Lecturer in Kinesiology. Meg took a two-year position on the athletic training faculty at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine and is now back at Hope College as an Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Assistant Athletic Trainer.) |
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My name is Meg Abfall Frens and I grew up on a small farm in Osseo, Michigan. I lived in Ransom, but went to Pittsford Area Schools. While in high school I played basketball, volleyball, and threw the shot put and discus in track. We did not have an athletic trainer at our school, nor were there any at the other schools in my conference. I had no contact with athletic training before I found out about Hope College. My first athletic training experience was a Cramer Basic Athletic Training Workshop the summer before I attended Hope as a freshman.