Korey Stringer Institute

and the importance of getting the response right.

An article that peaked my attention this week was an interview with Douglas Kasser, who is the CEO of the Corey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut.

That institute, based on a player who lost his life from exertional heat stroke, and they do a lot of work to try and avoid this happening to any others.

Douglas Kasser said that deaths almost always occur during the first week of practice when athletes have not yet acclimatized to the heat.

But that's an interesting insight, a timely reminder that urgency is key.

Early in the season is the most risky and that basic emergency provisions are absolutely critical to avoid the worst impacts.

He did note that there is progress and the Corey Stringer Institute says it's helped to bring about at least 300 policy changes in high school sport across the US because the science is very clear.

The solutions are often simple, but the challenge is ensuring that these are in place before an emergency happens to make sure that immediate action can be taken.

Yeah, I agree.

I mean, there was a lot of, isn't there a Corey Stringer Institute that specializes in getting information out about this? And yeah, You know, what Matthew Mayich's lawyer has said is, you know, when Arizona State said they're going to look at the protocols, he said there are good protocols in place.

The problem is they weren't followed.

And I think that's the other part of it.

Well, where can people, besides going to PubMed and searching for Dr.

Rob Huggins, where can people find more about Korey Stringer Institute?

Yeah, so if you just go to the Korey Stringer Institute, uh, search it in, in, in Google, um, or Korey St- ksi@uconn.edu, um, we have a, a library of resources.

Again, it's really focused on preventing sudden death in sport, um, and optimizing fitness in folks.

Um, we, we are educators, so there's a bunch of education on there.