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Stephanie Kuzydym shares some of the background before becoming known as Safer Sidelines on Twitter (X).
Stephanie, where did the Safer Sidelines journey start?
I was a high school tennis player and visited the AT often.
My mom spotted the signs of overheating.
I started to train for marathons and learned more about heat illness.
I took a storytelling class in college and heard the story about a Louisville kid who died from heat exhaustion.
It was always a topic at the back of my mind.
When I moved to Houston and learned about the heat and humidity.
A baseball player with commotio cordis really was the tipping point.
Damar Hamlin was a huge catalyst for the improvement of the database.
We were working on SaferSidelines before he collapsed.
Scott Anderson and Dr. Steve Horwitz had their own databases, and together we created the Deadly Games Database.
What is one of the most eye-opening things regarding athletics?
Why is nobody seeing this thing???
Why are we so bad at reporting this?
Is anyone asking for the details?
Was there an AT, an AED?
Matthew Mangine collapses June 16.
Mike Quinn tells his daughters' girls' soccer league that they need to learn CPR.
A short time later he was running during their practice and collapsed.
Had Damar Hamlin not collapsed, they would not have been trained in CPR.
The Damar Hamlin incident activated a major push for CPR/AED training
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