Coaches and parents and kids and officials and everybody to get on the same page to help kids. If youre an administrator in a high school, your being asked a question on how youre making this favor for my kids, and we can answer that now. Thank you. We appreciate you being here, your it recognized for five minutes. Thank you very much. I am 42 years old. I served as a starting goalkeeper for the United States Womens National soccer team for the years of 1994 to 2008. During that time i helped to lead the team and winning to 11 old metals, in 1996 atlanta games and 2004 athens games, and late 173 International Games over 15 years for the United States. That is a record among female goalkeepers. In the summer of 1999, my 20 amazing teammates and i captured the hearts of america by beating china in a healthy kick shootout alive in front of 90,000 screaming fans at the rose bowl in pasadena, california. I was the one that made the single safe save before she took off her shirt. I will that
Physical. And responsible play in our game, the National Hockey league working together with the National Hockey League Players association has gone to elaborate lengths to do that, and will continue to do so. We are pleased to have this opportunity to share with the subcommittee some of the measures enacted in this pursuit. The National Hockey league with the maker with the worst major professional link to a value of players after they incur head injuries. Beginning in 1997 the nhl and the nhl Concussion Program requires that all players on all clubs undergo preseason baseline psychological testing. After he player is diagnosed with a concussion he goes free is testedst did he to find when he will be able to safely return to play. That is pursuant to the Concussion Program that narrow psychological testing results that added value and should be taken into account along with player reported symptoms when making return to play conditions and decisions. And nhl Concussion Committee has a
Members, and members of the subcommittee, i appreciate the opportunity to testify this morning on the behalf of the National Football league, and i commend the getty for the committee for digging up this issue. Commissioner has stated repeatedly that he spent more time on health and safety of our board than any other issue that comes before him. Football has our day vital place in the resume of american life, there are nearly 6 million children who play football across our country. Another 1. 1 million that play in high school, 75,000 in college, and so whether Distance Games in our backyard, at thanksgiving, or games late in our local parks, or friday Night High School games, saturdays with college, or hopefully plenty of people watching the nfl on sundays and mondays and occasionally thursdays, football plays a significant role in our lives. We take that popularity seriously. With it comes a great deal of responsibility. That is what we risk we embrace. We understand that the decisio
A house energy and commerce subcommittee look at spore safety and brain injuries in football, hockey, and other sports. Nfl and nhl officials talk about the safety steps they have taken. Well also hear injury stories from a professional Soccer Player and a high school student, and medical professionals explain the Science Behind brain injuries. The hearing is about three hours. All right. I want to thank everybody for being here. Were now with the full Committee Ranking member, the gentleman from california joins us. We now have the ability to start our hearing. I will introduce you after my statement and before you start your testimonies. I will open with my Opening Statement will stop good morning, jan. Good morning. Welcome to this mornings hearing. Today it is my hope to learn what steps are being taken to make Sports Participation safer for all athletes. Every day, parents make choices about whether or not to let their son or let their daughter play soccer or what kind of mouthpie
We know that spencer has tested positive for he well be virus and new york is preparing for first ebola case for months and Officials Say they are are ready. Thursday night the big story on action news tonight is ebola in new york. And tonight, doctors are treating the patient and Health Detectives are repraiseing that patients steps over the last several days. Answer News Reporter Sharee Williams is live at the big board tonight. Sharee were getting a good deal of information tonight. That is the case, jim and theres a measure of concern tonight as we now know this person was moving along round new york city and including going to a Bowling Alley. He used Public Transportation and even took a car service in the hours before he reported showing symptoms. The patient is craig spencer. Here he is. Hes 33 years old. And we also know he works at new york presbyterian Columbia Hospital in emergency medicine and more recently he was in west africa working with Organization Doctors Without Bo