Blog #8: Mistreated Football Player

Marshall Rudd 

The topic I choose was football and how a football player died from a heatstroke. This topic has been showing up a lot in the past couple of years and people are trying to find a way to fix this problem from happening. Any time someone sees someone die from a heatstroke it brings a lot of attention to parents of children who play football and worry them. 

I chose the article “Maryland Fires Two Trainers Who Treated Jordan McNair Before his Death” by Marc Tracy. The article is about two trainers who attended to a football player who died after contracting a heatstroke and before he died people said that he was not cared for correctly when showing symptoms for a heatstroke. They said cold-water immersion, standard treatment was not conducted, and no one called 911 until about an hour later, and he died two weeks later. I chose this topic because it very interesting to me in how some coaches treat some players. What I learned is that all trainers need to know how to treat someone for a heatstroke and be more cautious when a player shows signs of a heatstroke. 

The thesis of this article is two University of Maryland athletic trainers who attended to a football player who died after contracting heatstroke at a spring practice are no longer employed there. In the article they say Jordan McNair was not treated correctly in a main reason they got fired. Also, they article says the two trainers had been paid administrative leave since mid-August. Finally, they also say the lawyer for one of the trainers confirmed he wasn’t employed at Maryland anymore. 

This article is informative because this article is just trying to inform you about the firing of two athletic trainers. For example, in the article they say two trainers at Maryland are no longer employed there. Also, they say another thing just to inform readers like in August, the university and Rick Court, the football program’s strength and conditioning coach, reached an agreement to part ways. The last example says Steve Nordwall, an assistant athletic director and director of athletic training this is just information and not persuasive in any way.