Another day of productive meetings & researching around what is new in the world of athletic training Stateside & both businesses look in a stronger position. 

The daylight's experiences conclude & the evening starts at the BOC reception, where I am warmly welcomed by several of their staff & introduced to the head athletic trainer of the Seattle Mariners MLB team, Rick Griffin & his former colleague. Both guys were extremely knowledgeable & very open, whilst all too happy to extend an open invite to their facilities in both Seattle & Arizona, which is very exciting.

As that event drew to a close, Cathy (Ortega), my two new acquaintances from the Mariners, my friends from Winthrop Uni, Brittany Bingham & her colleague, Danielle Ribbons , headed off to the DJO party. The reacquaintances continued with warm handshakes from Leigh Weiss, a trainer I had met when spending time at the NY Giants last year, the annual hug & photograph with the organiser of the DJO party & Jun Matsuno, one of the AT interns we had worked with in pre-season at the Steelers. I was also warmly introduced to several of the DJO staff including Dwayne Treolo & Sandy Dollar, as well as some of the guys from TRX in California.

In conclusion it has been a fantastic visit to New Orleans with friendships & working relationships cemented & made. Maybe not so much time has been spent in terms of catching up on some of the research out there but the businesses have emerged as stronger propositions.