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2 Highschool players dead from heat, GHSA isnt doing anything about it - The Falcon Jedi - 08-03-2011 03:10 AM
“It’s tragic and bad, but we really can’t take strong measures when it doesn’t affect everybody. So many times when a tragedy like this occurs, so many people want an immediate stop to all activities. And what keeps us from doing that is so many kids under the very same conditions have no negative effects.
“We’re going to find out as much information [about the two situations] as we can and go from there.”
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The GHSA may develop a stricter and more uniform heat policy in the near future. University of Georgia researchers are in the final stages of a three-year study on heat risks associated with high school athletics.
“They’ve got 30 high schools around the state with state-of-the-art equipment, and they have trainers that are taking readings every 15 minutes, starting before practice until after practice — and then they keep up with any heat-related issues that come up during practice,” Swearngin said.
“When that study is over, we’ll have hard and fast data that will maybe cause us to change our policy,” he said.
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-- Staff writers Christian Boone, Angel K. Brooks and Fran Jeffries contributed to this article.
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Are you FUCKING kidding me? 2 kids died, but since the majority of the players survived then the GHSA isnt going to do anything about it?
WTF world do we live in?
RE: 2 Highschool players dead from heat, GHSA isnt doing anything about it - terryowens - 08-03-2011 07:58 AM
Why are schools starting on August 1st?
It's too damn hot to go to school!
RE: 2 Highschool players dead from heat, GHSA isnt doing anything about it - Duff_Man - 08-03-2011 08:35 AM
Died from what?
RE: 2 Highschool players dead from heat, GHSA isnt doing anything about it - babuka - 08-03-2011 09:47 AM
The only thing that I can think of, is to make players pass a conditioning test before they can practice. You don't pass the conditioning test by just completing it in time, you also must have your heart rate down a certain percentage of your resting heart rate after a so many minutes. Really sad though. One of the kids went to school the same place I did for a few years as a kid. Kids in general just are not as conditioned to the heat as they were 30 years ago, they spend way more time indoors on average. When you couple that with the fact that kids are bigger on average it is not a good outlook. Maybe they can enforce some kind of conditioning test with a witness from a school official and doctor to help keep this from happening. Terrible.
RE: 2 Highschool players dead from heat, GHSA isnt doing anything about it - Beef - 08-03-2011 10:08 AM
People just need to realize that not everyone is born the same. Some have weaker hearts, blood vessles, bones, and brains than others. Some are susceptible to different kinds of stress much more than others. And if you go out doing activities that exert your body past it's limits without getting tested to see if you can do so, then it's nobody's fault but your own.
It's sad when anybody dies, but it's ridiculous to blame someone else just because that person was born with a weakness that caused his death or injury when they elected to blindly participate in the activity.
RE: 2 Highschool players dead from heat, GHSA isnt doing anything about it - Radical - 08-03-2011 06:39 PM
(08-03-2011 10:08 AM)Beef Wrote: People just need to realize that not everyone is born the same. Some have weaker hearts, blood vessles, bones, and brains than others. Some are susceptible to different kinds of stress much more than others. And if you go out doing activities that exert your body past it's limits without getting tested to see if you can do so, then it's nobody's fault but your own.
It's sad when anybody dies, but it's ridiculous to blame someone else just because that person was born with a weakness that caused his death or injury when they elected to blindly participate in the activity.
We are talking about kids here.
However, I am against shutting things down because of this. Analyze what happened, find the unique factors that led to this, and mitigate what you can. Shutting everything down is ridiculous.
RE: 2 Highschool players dead from heat, GHSA isnt doing anything about it - papachaz - 08-03-2011 07:20 PM
as powerful as our government THINKS it is, it's like Clint Eastwood says, "a man has to know his limitations" - the GHSA has no power over the weather, there fore they can't do anything about the heat
RE: 2 Highschool players dead from heat, GHSA isnt doing anything about it - Peyton - 08-03-2011 07:24 PM
I think they should just make them practice first thing in the morning or in the evening. I mean...practicing in football gear when it's 100+ degrees.....it's just stupid to expose teenagers to that.
RE: 2 Highschool players dead from heat, GHSA isnt doing anything about it - Nuccah - 08-04-2011 09:34 AM
(08-03-2011 07:24 PM)Peyton Wrote: I think they should just make them practice first thing in the morning or in the evening. I mean...practicing in football gear when it's 100+ degrees.....it's just stupid to expose teenagers to that.Don't know about in GA, but in Florida classes started at 7:15am. No way to slot a 3hr practice before that.
I don't know, maybe we were just lucky, but I never saw one of our guys pass out on even the hottest days.
RE: 2 Highschool players dead from heat, GHSA isnt doing anything about it - Zodiac - 08-04-2011 01:59 PM
(08-04-2011 09:34 AM)Nuccah Wrote: Don't know about in GA, but in Florida classes started at 7:15am. No way to slot a 3hr practice before that.
I don't know, maybe we were just lucky, but I never saw one of our guys pass out on even the hottest days.
That's another problem.. School should not be starting at 7 or 8 in the morning. for one a teenager's body doesn't respond to that... and it's been proven it leads to increased stress among other things.
School needs to start at around 10 and end at 4 or 5... I mean we have buses to take kids to school in the morning and then the parents could come and pick them up on the way back home... this would also help keep the kids off the streets.
This country's education system is just a gigantic failure.