{"id":128241,"date":"2019-10-25T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=128241"},"modified":"2019-10-25T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T20:55:52","slug":"bates-in-the-news-oct-25-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/25\/bates-in-the-news-oct-25-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates in the News: Oct. 25, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bates Football<\/h3>\n

How to tackle concussions? High schools get helmets with sensors \u2014 Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n

Mike Lowe of the Portland Press Herald<\/em> includes Bates in a story about Maine schools outfitting football players with high-tech helmets that use sensors to record the location and intensity of blows to the head so coaches can monitor for concussions and teach players to tackle more safely.<\/p>\n

Most Bates players use the new SpeedFlex Insite helmets. \u201cIt\u2019s helping us look at what we\u2019re doing, how can we coach our players better,\u201d said Nick Cooke, assistant athletic director of athletics for athletic performance.<\/p>\n

Also in on the action is Howard Vandersea ’63, founder and president of the Maine chapter of the National Football Foundation, whose $2,000 grant helped Saco’s Thornton Academy buy new helmets.<\/p>\n

Vandersea said it’s what the organization is looking for when it provides grants. \u201cIf it\u2019s going to help young kids and make (football) safer,\u201d he said, \u201cthat\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the story:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n