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Message: [QUOTE="Orangeyes, post: 43267, member: 34"] [COLOR=#000080][B]This news has gone national, Fox, Washington Post, front page on AOL home page etc. It's a concern to all who care about our kids who play high school football. I can't remember the last local boy who died playing that sport. There was a kid at Westhill, Tim Metzger who died playing basketball and ironically it was in Homer NY. That punched this community below the belt. Car accidents, drug over doses and suicides are usually the way young kids die not on football fields and basketball courts.[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][B]"Tim Metzger, 17: Onondaga, N.Y.: Collapsed during a timeout with less than five minutes remaining in a basketball game on Jan. 31. He had passed a physical, but a week before his death, Mr. Metzger had complained to his coach about feeling dizzy, which can be a sign of heart or circulation problems. He died of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Robert Howe, the Cortland County coroner, said.[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][B]"Richard Cavallaro, the principal of Westhill Central School in upstate New York, said Tim Metzger's death has changed the way he watches an athletic event."[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][B]"That's part of what you can't shake," he said. "You're watching a game and all of a sudden a terrible thought will pop into your mind when somebody stops to catch their breath or someone goes down. There's a new sense of relief when the athlete gets back up."[/B][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#000080]From the NY Times March 14, 1994 [/COLOR][/B] [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/14/us/deaths-of-youthful-athletes-raise-questions-over-testing.html?src=pm'][B][COLOR=#000080][U]Deaths of Youthful Athletes Raise Questions Over Testing[/U][/COLOR][/B][/URL] [URL='http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-89251925.html'][B][COLOR=#000080][U]There is a scholarship named in Tim's honor[/U][/COLOR][/B][/URL] [COLOR=#000080][B]A very nice way to remember a good kid.[/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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