Sports Performance
Our sports performance program is dedicated to empowering every student-athlete to reach their highest potential.
Through year-round strength and conditioning training and comprehensive sports medicine care, we build resilience, enhance performance and support long-term health and wellness. From individualized strength programs in the Blaine Center to expert injury prevention and rehabilitation, our goal is clear: help every Quaker athlete become the strongest, healthiest and most competitive version of themselves.
Sports Performance
Penn Charter's strength and conditioning program engages, educates and equips student-athletes to enhance performance while building a foundation for lifelong wellness.
Success in competition demands power, stamina, and skill—along with resilience, grit, and determination. These qualities are developed through intentional strength and conditioning.
The Blaine Steinberg OPC ’11 Center operates year-round, with in-season teams and out-of-season athletes training multiple times each week under nationally certified strength and conditioning coaches. As part of Penn Charter’s comprehensive Upper School program, our strength and conditioning coaches integrate performance technology, introduce younger students to foundational training principles, and mentor aspiring coaches through a highly regarded internship program.
Sports Medicine
Penn Charter strives to ensure each student-athlete's safety and well-being while participating in athletics.
We employ the latest treatment and rehabilitation techniques and educate our student-athletes on overall body maintenance and care. We strive to return injured athletes to sports participation in the shortest, safest timeframe, placing their overall health and safety above all else.
Our 1,900 square feet training suite offers:
• Hydrotherapy Room with hot and cold tubs
• Private Consultation Room for appointments with medical staff and team doctors
• 10 treatment & taping tables
• Keiser Hydraulic Machine for strengthening programs
• Normatec recovery compression units and GameReady ice compression units
• Therapeutic modalities to increase care for acute and chronic injuries
Comprehensive Care
- Athletic trainers are licensed by the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine.
- Collaboration with school nurses to ensure students’ specific needs are met in the classroom.
- Access to the leading primary care and orthopedic physicians in the area; Penn Charter is affiliated with leaders in the sports medicine field.
- Weekly injury clinic with CHOP sports medicine physicians.
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Arthur Bartolozzi, MD, an orthopedic physician, partner in 3B Orthopedics, and former PC parent, is the supervising physician for the athletics department. In conjunction with 3B Orthopedics and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Penn Charter is provided with a sports medicine fellow who sees student-athletes on campus.
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13 AEDs on campus.
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All coaches are CPR and AED certified.
Athletic trainers are present on campus for all home competitions and during school-sanctioned practices. Our athletic trainers are clinical preceptors with the templE university athletic training education program (ATEP).
Penn Charter has been recognized as a First Team Safe Sports School by the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA). It is the first school in the five-county Philadelphia region to earn this distinction.
Sports Medicine Clinic at Penn Charter
Each week, a sports medicine fellow, who works directly with physicians at both 3B Orthopedics and CHOP, is present in our athletic training room. This partnership allows student-athletes to be evaluated by a physician in a timely fashion. This quick access to care allows students to progress through the concussion protocol, receive treatment in an easily-accessible environment, and hasten access to further care and evaluation if warranted.
Concussion Management
At Penn Charter, we employ a multidisciplinary team approach to the management of concussion in our students. Our management team aims to provide a smooth transition from injury to returning to academics and athletics. The PC Concussion Management Team includes: athletic trainer, school nurse, division director and divisional learning specialist.
Meet the Team
Strength and Conditioning
Mallory Benard
Associate Head Strength & Conditioning Coach; Physical Education Teacher
John Estok
Chair of Physical Education Department; Head Strength & Conditioning Coach, CSCS, PES, CF-L2
Adam Schneck
Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach & PE Teacher
Sports Medicine
Bashir Lauderdale
Athletic Trainer
Mary Jane McGlinchey
2017
Athletic Trainer, MS, LAT, ATC
Michael Williams
Head Athletic Trainer, MS, LAT, ATC, CSCS, SFMA
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