Stories

On a hot summer day, Zach had just finished running sprints with his high school football team when he collapsed. Zach was taken to Golisano Children's Hospital where they diagnosed him with a core temperature of 107 degrees, exertional heat stroke, devastating...

October 24, 2011, my twenty-year-old son, Joseph Ciancola, a healthy, athletic young man with no prior health conditions collapsed on a New England college campus athletic field during a baseball strength and conditioning practice. He was a pitcher, and this was the...

On Monday February 24, 2014 Hunter Knighton went to an off-season workout for football at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. The workout was called U Tough. Competing in lifts and drills, the best performers earned the coveted black jersey signaling a...

My son, Zac, suffered a heat stroke in August 2018, he was 15 years old. Thankfully he has a very rare, happy ending – recovering from what is usually a life-ending incident for students, and was able to play football again. Football practice was grueling on that...