Pullman Regional Hospital hosting athletic fundraiser at Red Barn

PULLMAN — Pullman Regional Hospital is hosting an annual fundraiser to help support their athletic training program, which helps serve four local high schools.

The event will take place at Red Barn in Colton, Wash., and is scheduled for August 4.

Red Barn in Colton is located at 501 Wawawai Rd, Colton, WA 99113.

Ty Meyer, PRH foundation board member, and his wife Kay, Red Barn owner, are helping put the event on, with the help of a volunteer committee, which includes PRH foundation board members Connie Newman (committee chair), Ken Casavant, Dr. Rick Emtman, Jean Logan, Amy Rogers, and Jerman Rose.

The event is set to begin at 5 p.m. and will start with a social and hosted bar, then a barbeque will follow.

During the barbeque, local student-athletes, coaches, and athletic trainers will share their impact stories.

Tickets for the event can be purchased online at http://www.pullmanregional.org/redbarn.

The hospital has full-service athletic training care for more than 750 students at four high schools in the Whitman County area. The high schools are: Colton, Garfield-Palouse, Potlatch, and Pullman.

Each of the four high schools have athletic trainers embedded in the schools from PRH. The trainers will treat student-athletes in the schools for injury prevention, concussion protocols, and any other injury or issue an athlete may have.

During the 2022-23 school year, these athletic trainers helped and provided treatment to around 6,000 athletes during the course of the year.

The PRH athletic training program was also responsible for having up to $200,000 in care provided to the athletes at no additional cost the athlete, parents, or school.

Stretching, taping, and evaluations of athletes by the athletic trainers were completely free of charge for the four high schools.

Learn more about the event at the website, where you can also register for the event to help the athletic training program take more strides for the next school year.