Fred Smith
Head Athletic Trainer

Ron Jones did an outstanding job with our spring football strength and conditioning program, this is my 20^th year as the athletic trainer at Bakersfield College and the strength gains were very impressive with very few injuries.  I have been concerned with our single sport athletes losing some of their athleticism and Ron incorporated strength, balance, coordination, explosiveness and quickness in a progressive program that molded our football players into athletes. 

 We screened our football players for strength, body control and flexibility in the fall and again after 6 weeks of our spring program and there was a vast improvement in all three areas.  I was actually able to raise my level of expectations while working with the few that did have injuries.  I asked them to do exercises that in the past were too difficult, and when they did them, they did them with good form and they remained under control throughout the movement.

 Ron’s program was new and I monitored how things were going and in addition to the physical improvements, the athletes had nothing but praise for Ron.  I believe this was due to the fast gains they were making and the variety of activities that they were doing, which kept their interest level up.

Fred H. Smith, MA, ATC, PES
Head Athletic Trainer
Bakersfield College
May 2004

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