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...than in the normal population. The condition usually gains public attention only after the death of an élite sportsman, like when Reggie Lewis of the Boston Celtics collapsed and died during basketball practice in 1993. However, all participants in regular athletic training - from recreational joggers to high school soccer players - are at increased risk. Almost all cases of SCD occur in athletes with hereditary or congenital cardiovascular diseases like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a thickening of the heart. In 80% of cases, these diseases are asymptomatic and death occurs with little or no warning, almost always during or shortly after sport...
...Sharma says he became convinced of the need for ECG tests through his work as head of the screening program for British athletes, for which he screens players in soccer's Premier League and Britain's Lawn Tennis Association as well as amateur athletes on behalf of a British cardiac-risk charity. He hopes to publish the results of his work in the coming years. "It's very difficult to justify cost-effectiveness of ECG screening without using an emotive argument," he says. "We've screened 8,000 British athletes and have picked up a potentially fatal condition...
Just one week into the season, the Harvard men’s soccer team seems to be walking on sunshine. The Crimson men are riding high on a two-game winning streak, defeating each of their opponents by at least a two-goal margin. Add to this a new class of rookie standouts, a record-setting point performance by co-captain Andre Akpan, and an impressive .207 successful shot percentage relative to its opponents’ .032 mark, and Harvard (2-0-0) seems to have found the recipe to success. However, as biting autumn winds drift through the leaves...
...striker had an answer just minutes later. Receiving a nifty pass from classmate Scott Prozeller, Rogers blazed past the Stony Brook defenders on a breakaway and lofted a shot into the top left corner to tie the score and announce his arrival on the collegiate soccer scene...
...According to LoHud.com’s high school soccer blog “Just Kickin’ It,” when Rogers was deciding between playing college ball at Harvard or Duke, Akpan—who once faced the same dilemma—was a major factor in swinging Rogers towards the Crimson...