The athletic training education program at the University of Arkansas will present three speakers March 31 to talk with students about balancing work with other aspects of their lives. 

Stephanie Mazerolle, an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut, will speak at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 31, in Room 103 of the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Building. Two additional speakers will join the conversation by webcast from Boston.

Mazerolle directs the undergraduate program in athletic training education at Connecticut. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles in the past eight years on subjects related to work-life balance, professional commitment and retention, and professional socialization.

Her work focuses on determining factors that contribute to work-life conflict for the athletic trainer working in a variety of settings as well as strategies that can minimize the negative impact of those conflicts.

Mazerolle is the lead author on the National Athletic Trainers’ Association position statement on work-life balance in athletic training, which is currently being written for publication. She is a section editor for the Journal of Athletic Training and serves on the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education annual review committee. 

Scot Spak and Brian Vesci will speak with students at the event through distance technology. Spak is in his eighth year as an athletic trainer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is responsible for the prevention, evaluation, rehabilitation and treatment of all athletic-related injuries and illnesses. He also works as a preceptor for Boston University, supervising and mentoring BU athletic training students.

Spak is a member of the board of the Athletic Trainers of Massachusetts and a member of the College and University Athletic Trainers Committee College/University Value Model.

Vesci has been senior athletic trainer at Boston University since January 2011. He has worked at BU since 2006 and is primarily responsible for the men’s soccer squad. He is also a part-time instructor for the undergraduate athletic training program at Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Services at BU.

The event will be recorded for people to view later.