About
Team21 Training & Recovery
An athletic training practice with emergency preparedness at the center of it, founded by an athletic trainer who wrote the emergency action plan for her own school and then set out to make it easy for everyone else.
What Respara means
Respara combines response and preparation into one name, because an Emergency Action Plan is really both halves of the same job: the preparation happens on a quiet Tuesday, and the response is what that preparation buys back when it counts. Neither one works without the other — a response with no preparation behind it is improvisation, and preparation nobody can act on under pressure is just a document.
An emergency does not wait for anyone to be ready. The only preparation that counts is the preparation that was already finished: the venue address that EMS can be given without looking it up, the person who knows they are the one making the call, the AED that was checked last month and is where the sign says it is. That is what this platform builds, and it is why it carries this name.
Who Team21 is named for
Team21 Training & Recovery was founded by Evelyn Tandy, a board-certified athletic trainer. In November 2023, Evelyn's former college soccer teammate and close friend, JoBeth, was killed in an auto accident. JoBeth was the glue that held the team together and wore number 21. In a way to honor her friend, Team21 was born.
JoBeth was a details person. She noticed the small things other people walked past, and details are what emergency preparedness is made of: whether that gate opens from the outside, whether the AED on the wall still holds a charge, who is dialing 911 while someone else runs for the bag. A plan is only ever as good as the small things somebody bothered to check. Carrying her name means doing that work carefully, for every venue, before it is ever needed.
Who you are working with
Evelyn Tandy is a board-certified Athletic Trainer and former collegiate soccer player. Growing up as a Girl Scout, she learned the importance of being prepared for anything that may happen. Evelyn carried that preparedness mentality into athletic training after seeing the importance of having a plan in place. During an emergency, a successfully executed plan can be the difference in life or death.
Since earning her Master's in Athletic Training from the University of Arkansas, Evelyn has worked as a secondary school athletic trainer. In addition, she has provided athletic training services in a variety of areas including: USA Gymnastics, TBT's The Ville, US Soccer, USA National Cyclocross, and serves as the Head Athletic Trainer for Junior Volleyball Association. She serves as secretary on the Kentucky Athletic Trainers' Society's Executive Board, helping to push key health and safety legislature through the state government. She also volunteers regularly with Girl Scouts of Kentucky's Wilderness Road Council. She was voted the 2025 Kentucky Secondary School Athletic Trainer of the Year, and she and her college teammates were inducted into the Earlham College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2024.
How this platform started
After a 2025 Courier Journal article on her emergency action plan implementation for her high school, Evelyn discovered the need that so many schools, organizations, and communities have across the local, state, and national level. Her consulting with other athletic trainers on best practices led to the development of Respara.
The platform allows for quick, easy, and functional creation of venue-specific emergency action plans, so you can focus on the other aspects of running an athletic program.
The name came last, and it is the plainest description of the goal: Respara, combining response and preparation. An Emergency Action Plan does not save anyone by existing in a filing cabinet. It works when it was finished early, rehearsed by the people named in it, and posted where they will find it, so that the day it is needed, everyone is already prepared to respond.
Who this is for
Respara is built and supported by Team21 Training & Recovery, and it is not only for schools. Youth sports organizations, club and travel programs, community parks and recreation departments, and anyone else running practices and events at more than one site all face the same obligation: a written, venue-specific plan for every place athletes gather. Many states now require one for school athletics, and the standard of care does not change because a field belongs to a parks department instead of a district.
The full reasoning, and what protects a school that buys it, is on why it matters. Pricing is here, and the demo needs no account.
What is an athletic trainer?
An athletic trainer (AT) is a certified and licensed health care professional who prevents, recognizes, and treats injuries and illnesses in physically active people. During an athletic emergency the athletic trainer is usually the first medical provider on the scene. Athletic trainers are trained to diagnose and rehabilitate musculoskeletal injuries, provide first aid, perform emergency care, and manage the conditions most likely to threaten an athlete's life. They develop plans for those emergent situations before a season starts. Working alongside physicians, EMS, coaches, and administrators, emergency action planning tends to land on their desk as the people who would be activating and leading the plan.
Build your plans
Every venue, every role, every map, and the printed documents that go with them. Start with the demo if you want to see a finished plan first.