USC Sports Medicine Center

Medical Coverage for High School Athletes

USC Sports Medicine Center provides free physicals every spring to athletes in the following high schools. To include your school in the S.M.A.R.T. Program, call (803) 434-6812.

• Airport High School
• Cardinal Newman
• C. A. Johnson Preparatory Academy
• Columbia High School
• Eau Claire High School
• Keenan High School
• Lower Richland High School
• Mid-Carolina High School
• Swansea High School
• Newberry High School
• Whitmire Community School

High School Physicals

The USC Sports Medicine Center is happy to offer free physicals every spring - usually in April - to high school (and middle school) athletes. As long as your school's athletic program participates in our S.M.A.R.T. Program, you don’t even need to schedule an appointment. Your athletic director can tell you the time assigned for your school; simply show up during that time and you will receive a free full physical.

The free physicals are offered as part of the S.M.A.R.T. (Sports Medicine for Athletes and Recreational Teams) Program, developed by Dr. Jeff Guy, the medical director for USC athletics. Established to increase the level of medical care available to South Carolina secondary school athletes, especially those involved in high-risk contact sports, the S.M.A.R.T Program aims to prevent serious athletic injuries and to provide medical support to rehabilitate athletes who have been injured. These annual S.M.A.R.T. physicals help us to identify and treat potential health problems that keep you from performing at the top of your game.

Physicals are offered one Saturday in the spring to local high school athletes. These physicals are free to athlete and schools.