As the football season pushes on, a certain group of people who greatly contribute to the team are left without much recognition. These are the student trainers of the Noblesville High School football team.

The roles played by student athletic trainers differ greatly in terms of the student managers  jobs, how they get their jobs, and how this interact with players.

This year, the number of boys on the football team hit an all new high with more than a hundred players, which lead the coaches to enforce a dress list of only 75 players per game. This caused an increase in the members of trainers and student trainers to help out the team.

“Trainers are valuable,” head football coach, Lance Scheib said. “They assist Pete [Dewar] and Kate [Ash], our two adult trainers. They want to make sure the kids have water, the kids have any kinds of needs meant from a taping standpoint. They really make practice go efficiently.”

Becoming a trainer is an easier process than what people may believe. All an applicant has to do is go through an interview, and be willing to spend some summer days helping out.

“Trainers go through Pete, our head trainer, and they talk with the kids and they know the job description,” Scheib said.

Most of the trainers are helping out and spending their summer they have a career interest in the field. They simply enjoy being a trainer and helping out the team.

“I’m trying to be a trainer, like a physical therapist, and thought that doing this would be a good head start into what I want to do,” sophomore trainer Kate Nethery said.

Spending an entire summer with a group of people can affect how you treat a person, whether you treat them with respect or with disdain, For the students at the school on Fridays, they treat the players differently when they see the jerseys out an on, but trainers, they keep their opinions about the players the same throughout the season.

“The trainers treat the players like everyday people, nothing special,” sophomore football player Brandon Bzdyl said.

Scheib says trainers are important to the football team with all the hard work they do. He believes they keep the team running during games, not causing the coaches to have to stop every time a player is hurt, and being able to keep everything running smoothly.