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Libbey Breaker
Aspiring Athletic Trainer
About Me
Hi fellow readers,
I am here writing this blog about me being an Athletic Trainer with a hearing loss. First, I want to tell you a little about me as a person. I am one of the three people in my family that was born with a hearing loss and the other two are my older brothers. We are the first in our family with a hearing loss and we have no idea what caused us to have hearing loss. Living with a hearing loss does not stop me from doing things I love which are Hockey and being an Athletic Trainer. I have played Hockey thought out my life since I was 7 years old. I have played in high school, college ACHA D1 level and as well playing for Team USA! When I was in undergrad I got the chance to travel out of the United States twice. The first trip I got experience Ireland, Wales, and England and that was back in 2017. The second trip I got to experience Italy, Greece and cruise ship to the Greece islands. I loved both trips and wish I could go back and explore more. The rest of the blog will be about me and what I've done as an Athletic Trainer so people don't make an assumption that people with a hearing loss can't do this job because I for sure can!
Work Experience
Aug 2021-Dec 2021
I was an Athletic Trainer for Wausau East High School. It was a temporary position for someone to take over while on maturnity leave. I'll be telling more about this in my blogs
Summers 2015-2020
I was a Summer help for Pierce manufacturing in Wisconsin. IF your not familiar with this place its a place that builds fire trucks.
Performed a wide range of labor-intensive duties including clean the floors of the manufacturing building, painted fixtures, cleaned fire trucks, and putting things together on the fire truck like the doors on the cab and the panels and restocking things on shelves and cabinets, as well as cut the lawn and maintaining the facility to look nice for customers.
March 2022-
I Finally onbtained a Full time Position at Holy Family Memorial-Froedtert Health. I am an Athletic Trainer For Manitowoc Lutheran High School.
Education
2021/May
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Graduated with a 3.5 GPA with a Masters in Athletic Training
Member of Sports Medicine Club
Member of National Honors Society Club
2019/May
Lindenwood University
Graduated with a 3.4 GPA with a bachelors in Health Science
This is where I failed to obtain my Athletic Training degree because I had people that didn't believe that I could do it.