MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – To most, trainers are like children, which is to say they are better seen and not heard.
That never worked for John Mason.
Mason will retire in May, capping a 36-year career as an athletic trainer at Central Michigan. His final regular-season home game with the CMU men’s basketball team will be Feb. 28, when the Chippewas play Eastern Michigan.
The games are winding down for the Montgomery native, who graduated from CMU in 1978 and started working in the department in ‘81, when he was one of two full-time trainers.