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October 16, 2024Book Bonus: The Chapter on Exertional Heatstroke in the 2023 Book “Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning”
October 18, 2024P.S. OCTOBER 18
Conditioning drill casualty expert Scott Anderson, the retired long-time head athletic trainer for the football program at the University of Oklahoma, has corrected the first impression that the Ovet Gomez Regalado death was from exertional heatstroke.
The full story of the 2018 death of Braeden Bradforth at Garden City Community College in Kansas is told in the 2023 book WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning,.
The fourth youth football conditioning death in the last six years just in the state of Kansas — at least three or possibly all four from exertional heatstroke — occurred this summer.
At https://www.kcur.org/news/2024-10-14/shawnee-mission-football-player-died-of-heat-stroke-third-kansas-athlete-heat-death-in-6-years, Sam Zeff of NPR’s Kansas City affiliate KCUR, reports the details on Ovet Gomez Regalado, 15, at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School.