Hotter summers are making high school football a fatal game for some players
Associated PressBRANDON, Mississippi — Soon after Ashanta Laster reached the hospital, she was ushered into the emergency room where she saw doctors performing CPR on her teenage son. “We know that heat stroke is the most severe version of heat illness, is the only one that is life threatening and also know that it uniquely afflicting football players specifically at high school and collegiate levels,” said Rebecca Stearns, the Institute’s chief operating officer, adding that their research found that 94% of cases over the past four decades of heat stroke in sports involved football players. They’re not prepared for sudden cardiac arrest, and they’re not prepared for exertional heat stroke,” said Laurie Giordano, who formed a foundation to raise awareness about heat illnesses after her son Zach Martin, a high school football player in Florida, died in 2017. Louisiana’s heat policy was on display the other day at practice for the Catholic High School football team in Baton Rouge. “I will never compromise the health and safety of my one of my players.” Members of the Baker High football team wait out a weather delay at practice in Baker, La., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024.
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