Preventing • Heat Stroke

for and in Stringer's case it was also his job. The question that is left in the back of people's minds is "Is your love for a sport enough to kill you?" The answer has been proven this year and the answer is yes.

Stinger was a 6-foot-four, 335 lb. right tackle for the Vt.kingsand an allpro lineman in the NFL.

He had completed the morning practice and later began to develop symptoms of heat stroke. An ambulance was immediately called but according to NFL.com "Stringer was unresponsive at the time of arrival and had an extremely high core temperature of over 108 degrees."

It was later found out that earlier on Tuesday that Stringer "vomited during practice and got the wind knocked out of him during morning drills."

Q. What can be done to prevent something like this happening to other athletes?

Stringer was an all-pro lineman for the NFL before his sudden death on August 1, 2001.

Stringer went out on the field with a mission, a mission to prove to himself that he was a good athlete and he could fight through the beat and the pain to prove to himself, his teammates, his coach and the sport he loved so much. This mission led to an NFL player's death.