BOE hired Jabari Moseley last week
For about five years now O’Neill High School has contracted with Access Physical Therapy for a part-time athletic trainer to work with the school’s student athletes.
But, as of next week, the school now has it’s own, permanent trainer, Jabari Moseley, who was appointed by the Board of Education on February 3.
It’s a full-time Civil Service position, which will involve Moseley arriving at the school at the end of each academic day to work with students as they practice and participate in games on the O’Neill campus. Moseley will also travel with the varsity football teams to away games, Athletic Director Debbi Crowe said this week. She is very excited about the new position.
“Having a trainer helps our athletes before, during and after both their games and sports seasons,” she said.
Moseley, who has been one of the contracted trainers for the district, is excited. He said he already knows most of the school’s varsity athletes because of his part-time work here over the 2020-21 school year (when all three compressed seasons of sports were held in the winter/spring of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). He told the Board of Education that he is “glad to be back” and finds it especially exciting due to all of the high school’s new facilities.
Crowe said an athletic trainer benefits students at both games and practices with things like taping, dealing with injuries, rehabbing from injuries and conditioning. She also added that Moseley will be involved in concussion pre-screenings and following up on concussion protocols.
Moseley is a 2016 graduate of Dominican College, “from South Jersey!” who lives in Cornwall. He’s a former D2 soccer player.
Crowe said eventually she’d like to see him in a classroom setting, talking to kids about what his job entails, as the school district continually works to give students a look at more career options.
