Complete schedule. Next, house hearing on efforts to protect you from sports concussions. Then a house hearing on the government accessing social media is part of background checks for some employees. After that, pentagon briefing pentagon briefing on the fight against isis and a briefing on the annual report on chinas military. Now, to mothers testify before a house energy and commerce a subcommittee about concussions in youth sports. Their sons died after suffering multiple concussions. The hearing also addressed Current Research and efforts to protect Young Athletes from injury. This is two and a half hours. We are on a tight schedule today with votes. The morning and welcome to the oversight and investigation hearing. Were were here to continue the ongoing examination of concussions. The hearing follows an initial table we had in march but we had a constructive dialogue with leading experts on how to address the challenge of concussions. Well focus on youth sports, specifically the
Janz, i am the mom to jakes naked burg. My son was your typical allamerican boy devoted to sports, his friends, and her family. Jake was often referred to as her social butterfly. He had a big heart and genuinely cared for those in his life. He had a joy about him that others could not resist. His a big a big brother summed it up best when he said jake drank up life like it was pouring from a fire hose. He gave 110 and everything, especially sports. On september 18, 2004 jake got up at 6 15 a. M. In anticipation of his freshman football game. He loved football and all its offered, the physical challenge, this spirit of competition, and most of all the friendship that were involved. He was excited about playing this game because he had been held out of a few practices because the week prior he had suffered an injury where his arms and hands went numb and tingly. What he described to us sounded like maybe he tweaked his core strength is now. He had had not lost consciousness, he did not
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we are live on capitol hill this morning for a discussion on concussions in youth sports. Parents and medical experts will be testifying this morning before the house energy and commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations. Talking about Research Efforts and whats being done to protect Young Athletes from injury. This is live coverage on cspan2. It should start in just a moment or two. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] tight schedule on tights. Were here on committees ongoing examination of concussions. This hearing follows initial roundtable we had in march where we had constructive dialogue with leading experts in the field how to challenge concussions. Todays hearing focus on youth sports, specifically areas of prevention and research. While there is always particularly sports at young age shown to have many benefits. Benefits of youth sports participation, better health, increased activity, improved aca
The amount of data generated seems to be at the nominal. Is this useful for phenomenal. Is this useful for anyone else in the sport . Is a general manager interested in these performance statistics . It just seems like this has the potential for changing the way competition is handled by the how well youre able to manage these large data flows. Would you meant on it . Mr. Eggert i think general managers have an increasingly great interest in Data Acquisition and management and i think the sport is moving in that direction to be more databased and less just see how a person swings the bat. Its gotten so far i think theres espn Fantasy Sports analyst who is good at this you may continue to watch this hearing online at cspan. Org. Did you want to add to that . There are many that actually employee members of their look atstaff that will players and see how they play in certain environments and decide how they select. The entire concept of the movie money ball and how he was selecting team
[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] speemac, thank thank you we are going to move right away so we want to give everyone the opportunity to testify. I would like to introduce the witness for the second panel. We have mr. Eugene buddy, well eat up the second panel he has been head football coach at Dartmouth College since 2004. He has implemented non contacted practices. I believe you are also a teammate of of the famous coach from Howard University named tim murphy. He is my twin. My like to welcome doctor andrew gregory. Mr. Kevin of usa hockey, he has 20 Years Experience as a certified athletic trainer now serves as manager player safety at u. S. Hockey. Next mr. Steve, he has served as executive director and no president ceo of la crosse since 1998. Then mr. Terry oneill was the founder and ceo of practice like prose,s mission is to educate High School Coaches on alternative practice regimens. Next, doctor dawn comstock who is asked associate professor Colorado School of