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As Summer Sports Heat Up

Coaches must provide frequent water breaks, watch for heat illness, and place children’s health ahead of competition during summer sports.

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Through the years, I’ve been asked many times if there was one particular incident that compelled me to create the National Alliance for Youth Sports.

While there are many that I can point to as contributing factors, one certainly stands out because it involved my own son.

I was at home in Munster, Ind., during one of those typical hot and muggy Midwestern summer afternoons in the 1970s when my son Eric returned from his baseball game.