2008 Woodie Awards
Baseball players keep their Griep
Head Baseball Trainer Scott Griep keeps team ready
Steve Goes
Issue date: 4/3/03 Section: Sports
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 Media Credit: Joel Nisleit Left to right: Head trainer Milton Leganchuk and junior Scott Griep are currently watching over the baseball team’s injuries. |
Griep is the head student trainer at Lakeland. For most sports a specific trainer is assigned to each team. This person becomes part of the team in many ways as he or she has the same schedule as the team they are caring for. "The only thing I'm missing is a jersey," said Griep, who was given first choice of which team he wanted and chose baseball without any hesitation.
"I like the team and the coaching staff," said Griep, noting that the coaches are very good to him, as they treat him like he's part of the team.
"I think the players respect me too. They don't complain and they have a great laid back attitude... The only complaint I have is sometimes they don't come in for treatment when they say they will."
Griep is a junior who hails from Luxemburg-Casco High School. "I wanted to be a trainer after I took human anatomy class (it deals with muscles). The field is always changing and there are endless opportunities in it," said Griep.
Griep's job is not as easy as one might think. He's required to be in attendance for every team event. That includes 45 minutes to an hour before each practice to get the water ready and to set up individual players' rehabs. Throw in the fact that each preseason practice starts at 5 a.m., and the difficulty increases. He also has to treat each athlete for whatever injury they may have both before and after practice. With Coach John Weber's grueling practices, that number can be quite high. During practice, Griep works with the players who are out of practice with injuries. He also sets up each individual player's rehabilitation programs.
Once the work in the training room is done, Griep heads to the gym. There he stretches players or continues rehab work. During down times, Griep has been known to take a few swings off the batting-T.