The Wisconsin Athletic Trainers' Association Inc. (WATA) is a professional membership association for athletic trainers (AT) and others who support the athletic training profession in Wisconsin. Athletic trainers are health care professionals who collaborate with physicians working toward the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of emergency, acute, and chronic medical conditions and injuries. The mission of the Wisconsin Athletic Trainers ' Association is to improve the quality of health care for the physically active in the state of Wisconsin by the promotion and advancement of the athletic training profession and the licensed/certified athletic trainer.
News/Events
Jan 28, 2013
Registration and housing are now open for the 2013 WATA Annual Meeting and Symposium. Tentative schedules and student schedules are also available. Visit the
Annual Meeting page for more information.
Jun 6, 2012
Longtime UW-Madison athletic trainer and director of sports medicine Dennis Helwig will receive Friend of Sport Award, from the Madison Sports Hall of Fame. To view more info, please visit the news release on the
UW Badgers website.
Feb 3, 2012
The Wisconsin Athletic Trainers’ Association (WATA) encourages you to watch
CNN on Saturday, February 4, at 7:00 pm CT for the encore presentation of “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Big Hits, Broken Dreams.” Additional promotional materials regarding the program can be found
online.