Sunday March 18, 2001 Oakville Beaver Weekend 13 Sheridan College students in the big leagues Sports Injury Management student gets to rub shoulders with Toronto Raptors By Angela Blackburn and in the team clinic. OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Meanwhile, second-year student John Sage has picked up a similar scholarship with Jerome Camacho has hit the big leagues the Toronto Blue Jays. with the Toronto Raptors. Sage began work at spring training camp The third-year Sheridan College Sports with Blue Jays’ athletic therapist Scott Injury Management student has been sitting Shannon, another graduate of Sheridan’s 30- on the sidelines this year. year-old program — the first accredited ath­ “It’s like season’s tickets,” joked the 26- letic therapy program in Canada. year-old. “Many of our graduates work with profes­ His humour belies his career commit­ sional teams,” said Joe Rotella, co-ordinator ment, but probably helped him gain an inside of the program that’s been part of the track with the Toronto basketball team and Olympics, Para-Olympics, Commonwealth its big stars. Games and Canada Games. Since the beginning of the season, “This has been different than everything,” Jerome Camacho at Sheridan and plying his trade (below). Photos by Peter C. McCusker Camacho has been working as an intern with said Camacho, noting much of it takes per­ the Raptors as the recipient of the annual sonality. “These athletes are playing basketball almost Toronto Raptors Scholarship. “If you don’t gain the trust of the athletes, every day,” he said. He officially picked up the scholarship you’re done,” he said. Yet at day’s end, Camacho said, “It’s an from team management at centre court Camacho had to melt a lot of ice to gain entertainment business, that’s all. The play­ before the tip off of the Raptors/New Jersey the trust of both his boss and the superstars ers have to produce and fill the seats. Nets game at the Air Canada Centre on like Vince Carter. “One day they’re there, the next they’re March 2. “It’s difficult because everybody wants to gone. That’s the cold side of the business,” The scholarship carried $3,000 toward his be their friend. People latch onto the whole he said. $2,700 annual tuition, but more importantly celebrity thing. People ask me if I party with Camacho’s internship began last October it enabled him to work this season alongside them, but that’s not my focus,” said when he took off to Buffalo for eight days at Raptors’ athletic therapist Chuck Mooney, Camacho. training camp. also a Sheridan graduate. “I really expected the worst, but they’ve Now that his own season with the Raptors “I’ll stay with the'team until the play-offs all been really nice. They all say ‘hi’. I knew is wrapping up, Camacho makes no bones are over. Play-offs start April 21,” said I had to step up, they don’t have to go to my about wanting a job. Camacho. level. It’s a trust and confidence thing. As a Sheridan graduates can be found working The Mississauga resident earned a bache­ student intern, I had to break down the barri­ for major league sports teams like the lor’s degree in physical education from er,” said Camacho before he could, “get my Toronto Maple Leafs, Hamilton Tiger Cats, Brock University before going to Sheridan. hands on” star athletes like Carter or Alvin Toronto Argos, Vancouver Grizzlies, Camacho has continued his studies while Williams. Vancouver Canucks, Minnesota Wild and the working at Raptors practices, home games Basketball is a highly demanding sport. Toronto Rock (lacrosse).

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