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Northside Independent School District is launching a sports medicine magnet program at Stinson Middle School.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The magnet is starting with an inaugural sixth grade class of about 100 students on Aug. 10 and is designed to give students an early look at sports medicine jobs such as physical therapists and athletic trainers.<\/p>\n

Hosting the at Stinson was intentional, said Jeannette Rainey, the school\u2019s magnet coordinator. The schools is less than a mile away from the Northside Sports Gym, the Dub Farris Athletic Complex and the NISD Natatorium.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hope is the kids get the confidence to enter the health care care world,\u201d Rainey said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Soon-to-be middle schoolers already accepted into the magnet gathered on Thursday in the Northside Sports Gym on the far Northwest side of town, meeting their future classmates and hearing from local sports medicine professionals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speakers included Matthew Coston, a primary care sports medicine fellow with Sports Medicine Associates of San Antonio, and Danielle C. Aguilar, a sports performance therapist with Reaction Rehab & Sports Performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Future Stinson Skyhawks bombarded Coston and Aguilar with questions, but were especially curious about which professional athletes they\u2019ve worked with. To several students\u2019 disappointment, neither have worked with current Spurs players.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But students also wanted to know more about sports medicine jobs, what they looked like,\u00a0what it took to get into the field and why they were drawn to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one of the career fields in medicine where you can work with people who are really motivated to return to their passion,\u201d said Coston, who started out as a military medic, went through medical school, finished a residency and is in the last three weeks of a fellowship program.\u00a0He often works on the sidelines of sports games, focusing on non-invasive musculoskeletal system procedures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aguilar told students she was in the industry for a similar reason.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe help you get back to what you love doing,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cOur motto is \u2018build better athletes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Aguilar is a former college basketball player, which is how she got interested in sports medicine. During Thursday\u2019s icebreaker, she asked students to stand and squat to explain the importance of training and using correct form to prevent injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As part of the new magnet program, Stinson is getting a new physical therapy room that\u2019s currently under construction.<\/p>\n

On top of required math, social studies and physical education classes, magnet students also have to follow a tailored for sports medicine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sixth graders will take a science course that explores grade-level concepts through the lens of exercise science; a language arts course where students will read and write stories that focus on \u201cresilience and perseverance, where people and characters grow through movement and challenge\u201d; and a \u201ccareer investigations\u201d course tying in lab- and project-based learning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In eighth grade, Rainey said Stinson magnet students will get the chance to earn a CPR certification. There\u2019s also opportunities for students to get some high school credits early.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stinson\u2019s first magnet program comes as school districts are looking for more innovative programs to attract and retain students.\u00a0NISD is currently undergoing an \u201coptimization\u201d process to see which areas they should invest in more or consolidate for the same reason. <\/p>\n

The district has several magnet programs, industry-specific tracks where students can get hands-on learning and exposure to careers as early as middle school, sometimes elementary school. Primarily in high schools, magnet programs usually come with opportunities to earn industry-based certifications and college credit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

NISD already has a very popular health magnet program at Health Careers High School, getting over 500 school-choice applications for the upcoming school year, but educators are pushing for career and college exposure sooner and sooner in a student\u2019s K-12 journey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Magnets are also open-enrollment, meaning any student can apply even if they don\u2019t live in a school\u2019s attendance area or even inside the district\u2019s boundaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More than a draw for families, the Stinson sports medicine magnet also aligns with growing industry demands for professionals in the field, Rainey said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hospital systems are currently expanding in San Antonio, increasing demand for health care workers across all specialties. Texas is also the largest employer of athletic trainers in the country, and the second largest for physical therapists, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the Texas Workforce Commission, the field of sports medicine physicians is expected to increase by about 13.73% across the state in the next few years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alexis Green, 11, may not know all about the sports medicine industry yet, but she knows that she\u2019d like to work on the sidelines of big games like Coston and Aguilar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A soccer player and aspiring volleyball player, Green is one of Stinson\u2019s first magnet students. She\u2019s nervous about starting middle school, but she\u2019s also excited to learn more sports science.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her inspiration comes from watching Spurs games, paying close attention when athletic trainers rush the court when a player is injured.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought that was really cool,\u201d Green said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The deadline to apply to Stinson is July 1, and the deadline to accept an offer is July 10.<\/p>\n

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