| CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS Laura Darby McNally Receives NATA Servants Heart Award

Middlesex School athletic trainer Laura Darby McNally received the Servants Heart Award from the National Athletic Trainers Association. This award is given to one person annually in every district of the United States. Middlesex is in NATA District One which includes Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and Maine.

The Servant’s Heart Award recognizes deserving secondary school athletic trainerss in each district for their service to the athletic training profession, their schools and their communities.

This award recognizes ATs who have: Demonstrated a long-term commitment to the secondary school setting; provided public awareness, promotion and education about the AT’s role in their local communities; helped establish and maintain the athletic trainers’ presence in the secondary school setting; promoted the secondary school setting as a career-destination; and exhibited a consistent and exemplary level of student athletic health care

Laura grew up in Harvard, Massachusetts, and graduated from Middlesex in 1980 along with her twin sister Karen. After receiving her B.S. in biology from Trinity College, Laura joined the faculty at Brooks School, where she taught math and served as the head trainer and a dorm head. She returned to Middlesex as the athletic trainer in 1989 and is now also the girls’ varsity crew coach. A strong rower at Middlesex and Trinity, Laura has been active in national and international crew. From 1988-94, she was the head trainer of both the U.S. men’s and women’s rowing teams as they competed in world

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championships in Italy, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Tasmania, and Austria. She was also a USOC trainer in the 1984 Olympics, the 1989 Olympicfest, and the 1987 and 1995 Pan Am Games. In 2001, Laura took on the annual task of teaching plaque carving to all Middlesex seniors, each of whom is required by tradition to carve a mahogany plaque before receiving a diploma at graduation.

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