Backgrounders

Company Backgrounder Founded in 1987, Barrie-based Trainers Choice is a classic "best kept secret" story. The company is now a leading supplier sports medicine product in Canada and the official supplier to many of Canada's top sports leagues and associations.

Rick Schaly, President and Founder Rick Schaly is the founder and president of Trainers Choice, a leading supplier of sports medicine products in Canada. A trained athletic therapist, Rick opened his first sport injury clinic in 1989 at the age of 23 after realizing the sports medicine industry was a large, but vastly underserved market.