The National Athletic Trainers’ Association will be inducting seven people into its Hall of Fame when it gathers at its 69th annual clinical symposia and exposition in New Orleans next week.

Among them will be Marty Matney, formerly of Petersburg. The association notes that Matney first became interested in sports medicine in high school in the 1970s. Since then, he has built a decades-long career that has spanned multiple job settings and blazed new trails for athletic training employment.

Matney started in the clinical setting, and his work has contributed to the expansion of the athle...