Dixie Flyer Flash interviewed Football Trainer Mike Tolman at Dixie High School. 

He explained to us how his career started out.  He graduated in 1993 from BYU as an Athletic Trainer (AT).  

In 1994, he was hired to be the first AT at Alabama A&M University. 

It was a great experience  Tolman says, traveling all over the southeast. 

One football game was in the Georgia Dome. 

He later returned to Utah in 1998 to get his masters at the University of Utah in public health. 

He was hired as the AT at Salt Lake Community College and Tolman also had the opportunity to work with the Utah Jazz in the Summers and the AT for the Utah Blitzz USL soccer team that won a national championship in 2001.  

After a great 12 years at SLCC circumstances created an opportunity for Tolman to take a job here in St. George either with Dixie State College or Dixie High. Tolman chose Dixie High School. 

We asked Tolman what some of the most serious injuries were. Tolman says there have been a few serious injuries over the years with a bleeding head trauma, internal abdominal injuries and of the many knee injuries, some have been quite damaging says Tolman. 

Tolman says he values being a small part of these athletes’ recovery from injury setbacks and return to competition. 

Tolman appreciates helping athletes push through some adversity and still do the best they can to accomplish something they thought they couldn’t. Tolman is very confident in his job and what he does as he says he loves working with the kids and he says he has many more years left in him.