Emily Yorges has been working at North Platte Physical Therapy and with Goshen County athletes for seven years, but her athletic training practices are felt beyond the county lines.
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TORRINGTON – Emily Yorges has been working at North Platte Physical Therapy and with Goshen County athletes for seven years, but her athletic training practices are felt beyond the county lines.
Yorges got interested in athletic training in Douglas, where she went to high school. She took sports medicine classes that were taught by the full-time athletic trainer for the Bearcats and that is where she initially got the bug to work in the athletic training field.
Following high school, Yorges went to the University of Wyoming, but as a nursing major. Once in Laramie for a little while, she changed her major to athletic training, which is what her degree is in. She graduated from UW in 2010.
“That was the last class of athletic trainers that came out of there as a bachelor’s degree,” Yorges said. “June before my senior year, UW sent out an email that said the athletic training program has been dropped. If you are a junior or lower you have been dropped from your classes, but seniors can finish, so I was really lucky to finish.”
While a Cowboy, Yorges spent plenty of time with the collegiate athletics programs. She said that as a senior, working with the teams was basically a full-time job because there were only five seniors at the time that had to cover all UW sports practices and games.
After graduating from UW, Yorges moved to Torrington with her now husband. She used her old connections with the athletic trainer at Douglas to get in contact with Marnie Herring, the director of Torrington’s North Platte Physical Therapy. Yorges called Herring and the two set up the official athletic training program for the area high schools, although Herring was doing some athletic training at Southeast before Yorges got to town. The program started in 2010, with Yorges starting full-time a week after her graduation in Laramie.
“(Herring) was kind of already covering Southeast, but we just made it an official thing and proposed it to the school district,” Yorges said. “I have been doing it ever since.”
Although Yorges works with the local schools, she spends most of her daytime hours in the clinic, working with patients and athletes alike. She said she gets athletes in the clinic everyday. The clinic offers a bumps and bruises program that allows local athletes two free visits per sports season.