Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Andrew Hauser. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Andrew, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear about the best boss, mentor, or leader you’ve ever worked with.

I was lucky enough to come across my mentors path when I was still in college looking for an internship. As a college junior I remember Ken Crenshaw, who was the head athletic trainer for the Arizona Diamondbacks, call me to interview me for a potential internship. At the time, I didn’t realize how uncommon it was for the head athletic trainer for a professional sports team to be calling and interviewing potential interns. Approximately 5 years later I was working with the Diamondbacks and being mentored director by Ken and the staff in Arizona. The environment in and of itself was something like I had never come across since i was playing team sports. It was everyone pushing one another to be better at what we did. No stone was left unturned whether it be skills, knowledge or communication. It was a very open environment on sharing knowledge for growth, but also being brutally honest on what we needed to work on. This led to challenging conversations both when giving and receiving this type of information, but it assured you were being held to a higher standard and nothing was personal. Ken was always there to help when it was personal or professional and the level of care that he provided to all of his teammates was something I personally aspired to when I was able to go into situations where I was leading. He has been both a mentor and friend to many in the industry and I could never repay him enough!

Andrew, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I was in Major League Baseball in a variety of roles for 14 years that included strength/conditioning, athletic training, Director of Player Health & Performance, as well as, Director of Rehab, before getting into private practice. The private space was an opportunity to run an “A plan” consistently as in team sport there are a variety of factors that make this a challenge. I typically see athletes of all sports for a variety of things. Usually when they stagnate in their own rehab programs. This is something where being on the outside now allows me a better opportunity to see the forest amongst the trees. I am a able to take a very deep dive into everyone of these athletes’ systems. From their musculo-skeletal system, their cardiac system, their respiratory system and so forth. Being able to take this model and give intent and direction for an athlete is something that sets me apart in the work that I do.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

When I was 18 years old I was involved in a single car accident that left me a below-knee amputee. This was obviously a huge life paradigm shift for me and one where I had to learn a lot about who I was apart from being an athlete. This is something I see every single day with athletes that are injured as they’re trying to find out who they are when no longer the professional athlete. You could say that I was “lucky” enough to find this out at a young age.

Have you ever had to pivot?

Getting out of team sport and going into the private training and rehabilitation space was a huge pivot. I kept telling myself the easy thing to do was to stay in the team sport world; it was a new challenge and something that was re-invigorating for me.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.continuumhp.com
• Instagram: andrew_hauser_atsc
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-hauser-87044811/
• Twitter: @_ahauser