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A CHAMPP graduation: East High students celebrate with program
leaders Calvin Cole, far left, and Zachary Ferrara, far right, and
Cameron Apt, second from right. Photo taken pre-COVID.
CHAMPP training preps students for
lifelong health, academic success
Two Department of Orthopaedics and addressing them before they their trainees: work through the
physical performance programs lead to a medical event: challenges, adapt, and keep going.
have made steady progress since
they were founded about three “As a sports medicine surgeon I Center for Human Athleticism
& Musculoskeletal
years ago, and even COVID have treated many individuals Performance & Prevention
shutdowns couldn’t slow them who might have avoided injury (CHAMPP) Urban Outreach
down for long. with the right preventive
measures. And I’ve seen too Initiative
CHAMPP Urban Outreach and UR many gifted scholastic athletes CHAMPP trainers offer injury
Fitness Science serve different miss educational or athletic risk assessment, physical
patient populations, but share a opportunities because they didn’t conditioning, mentoring
core belief that keeping people have the academic preparation and academic support to
healthy is about more than and life skills to navigate the socioeconomically disadvantaged
physical conditioning and medical challenges of young adulthood. scholastic male and female
care. Their founders believe athletes in Rochester. Initially
helping athletes—or anyone— “The goal in developing Fitness offered at the Penfield YMCA
improve lifestyle habits, nutrition, Science and CHAMPP Urban when the program launched in
and mindset can yield long-term Outreach was to provide 2018, its 10-week training sessions
health benefits, and they’ve individualized support and are now based at East High
already published two peer- training so people can become School, part of the Rochester City
reviewed papers that prove it. stronger not just physically, but
mentally, academically, and School District.
Michael Maloney, M.D., Professor socially, too.” Some highlights and lessons
of Orthopaedics and chief of learned:
the Sports Medicine division, Both programs feature in-person
explained the philosophy of the training; when they faced a The approach works. Calvin
programs he originated, which significant barrier during COVID, Cole, Ph.D., Research Assistant
focus on identifying health risks they practiced what they teach Professor in Orthopaedics
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