Welcome to the derek sheely conference, reducing catastrophic risk for student athletes. My name is brian hainline, the chief medical officer for the ncaa. I want to welcome everyone here, especially mr. And mrs. Sh eely, who will be speaking after me. Just a couple of housekeeping items. Refreshments are on the second floor. That is where we will be having lunch. This is an academic building. Classes are going on. This is being broadcast live. All of your remarks are going out to millions of people around the world who will be watching this. That is just the monday, and a few words of thanks. This is being cohosted with George Washington, University George washington university. Special thanks to president Thomas Leblanc of George Washington university, tonya vog el, the director of athletics who helped get this food together properly and chris kennelly, the associate director of athletics at George Washington university. John solomon is here from the Aspen Institute. The Aspen Institute has been doing such great work. I was involved in project play from the beginning. Theyre looking at sport as a Public Health issue. They are doing and norms important work. Enormously important work. Amy dunham helps get the good word out about sports and the way we need to keep getting the good word out about sports and keep abreast of everything that is happening. Spent countless hours to try to get this conference right. This is an academic conference. It is a conference in the living memory of derek sheely. We want to get everything about this right. This is in just a conference. This is part of is not just a conference. This is part of a movement to understand how we can mitigate catastrophic injury in sport. We have to do everything we can to mitigate the risk of sport. When i think of the ncaa and why i am so proud to be working with the ncaa, i think of john parsons, who went on to get his phd to understand how to get sport right from a Public Health point of view. Everything you do for this conference and the ncaa, and makes me proud to be working here. Y,nally, kristin and ken sheel this is the first time i got to meet you. You really have shaped this conference. You wanted to get this right in memory of derek. You wanted to get this right for the Derek Sheely Foundation. You want to get this right for how we do sport going forward. I really believe we have tried to do everything we can to get your voice into this conference because this conference really has your voice, and because it has your voice, it has the voice of derek. Prayery hope, it is my that we do get this right. Thank you for everything you have done. You have helped shape the ncaa because of your thoughtfulness and wanting to do the right thing. This is a full day. We have some incredible experts on catastrophic injury, and in the afternoon, we will have a wonderful Panel Discussion that is being hosted by the Aspen Institute and being overseen by john solomon. I think we will come away with some great information that is up to all of us to take that information and move it forward for the good of sport, for the good of society, and for the living memory of derek sheely. Thank you again. It is my honor and privilege now to introduce kristin and caken sheely. They are going to share some thoughts about derek. Ken thank you, brian, for those kind words. Welcome, everyone. I would like to welcome you to the derek sheely conference. Thank you for joining online, in haven, or on cspan as we an important dialogue on player safety. To the ncaa, Aspen Institute, George Washington university, and our speakers and moderators. This conference aims to educate you about the Risk Mitigation strategies and best practices for football. Our primary goal is to save lives through dereks story. Kristin and i would like to start the conference by sharing a few stories about derek, who you can see on screen. On april 14,n 1989, in harrisburg, pennsylvania. Earlier this week was dereks birthday. He would have turned 30, but he will is be 22 to us. He was a happy and healthy child who loved dinosaurs, cartoons, and you games. Derek was a smart and witty and kind boy. Pennsylvania, and in elementary school, derek played baseball, basketball, soccer, and for all football. When derek was eight years old, he joined the peewee football league. There were nearly 100 kids on that team, and most of the kids knew each other because they all lived in the same neighborhood. No one really knew derek because we lived outside the area because our community did not have a football team. Derek came up with a brilliant idea. Since he was a huge san fan, his plans was to wear that jersey to every practice, and he did. That little peewee team practiced six days a week, and that was not enough for derek. After rectus, he would come home and do extra situps and pushups. He had long chairs set up in the backyard so he could practice. Work was very successful. The coach and other players noticed him. He started that season on the second team. Made it say steve young to the second team. They still did not know his name, and whenever derek made a great play, the coach would say, the job, steve young. The themes of dedication, scholar, leader, champion would define dereks life. The summer before middle school, we moved to germantown, maryland. Once again, derek did not know anyone. He hadnt hit his growth spurt yet, and he was on the small side for a sixth grader. Derek boarded the bus, sat down. A few stops later, a couple of integrators got on the bus and came back to where derek was sitting. They told derek he was in his seat. In classic form, he stood u p, looked at the sea, said i dont see your names, and sat back down. The two eighthgraders beat up derek. This went on until the bus driver finally saw it happening. The two integrators were kicked off the bus for the rest of your good at that point, the other kids of the year. At that point, the other kids started thanking derek. The summer before high school, derek told us he was going to try out for the northwest football team. The announcement caught us by surprise because he had not played football since the fourth grade. He had been focusing on soccer. Uphill challenge once again because the coaches at the high school were more familiar with the other kids. That did not deter derek. His dedication, smarts, and leadership skills caught the attention of the coaches. I remember one night picking derek up, and he said the coaches told him if he kept up his efforts, he might get called up to varsity by the end of the year. That really motivated derek. He worked harder than ever in the field and the classroom. After the jv season was over, derek was one of the handful of freshmen that got called up to varsity. Northwest went on to win the state title in dereks sophomore season. As a senior, derek was elected as captain. Derek was given two awards. The award for highest fouryear gradepoint average on the team and the award for excellence in the field, classroom, and community. After high school, derek went to penn state, where he did not play football. When that first fall came around without football, derek missed it. Several of dereks High School Friends were already at or planning to transfer to Frostburg State University to play football. Kristin and i were not very excited when derek said he wanted to transfer. We made it very difficult on him. He stayed at penn state, we would pay all of his bills. If he transferred, he would have to pay his own way. Once again, that did not stop derek. He worked odd jobs and went without to pay his own way. Even though he was scraping by two pay bills, we found out later he was loaning his College Roommate and best friend money to pay the electric bills. Derek was planning a career in public service. He started the lengthy application process to join the cia. Throughout his life, derek was mature beyond his age, calm under pressure, compassion for those less fortunate, witty with a sarcastic streak that went heads, andeoples never complacent. Kristin i dont want to tell this story. I dont even want to be here today. I really dont. Am, i want to tell you the story that overshadows all the other ones we have because it is our last one. It is the story about what happened to derek. On monday, august 22, 2011, ken and i moved our daughter into her dorm room at penn state. The next morning we went out for breakfast before driving back to maryland. We talked about a lot of things, but the one topic the most were the case. We talked about dereks upcoming foruation, what to get him graduation, and i remember saying i hope he lives at home for a little while. We talked about keaton. She had been so ready for college. Her dorm was in a perfect location on campus. She and her roommates had an instant connection. How lucky keaton was. At breakfast that morning, we said how lucky we all were and that life was good. Then an hour later, we got the phone call. Son, my, my boy, my heart. My we were driving back to germantown, and i handed the phone to ken. To theped the car shoulder and slammed into a stop. We had to get to the hospital as fast as we could. That phone call left us reeling. So shaken. The injury was so severe that the doctors doubted derek would survive emergency surgery. Once at the hospital, i think i got out of the car before ken stopped. I did not know where i was going. There was a trauma nurse waiting in the lobby, and so was the narrow surgeon who told us over the phone that derek was not going to survive the surgery. The trauma was so severe that dereks brain shifted 11 millimeters from the midline. The surgery he should not have survived but did relieved the swelling, but the impact was so great that it likely would not help for the longterm. It was a shortterm solution by a small hospital to fix a catastrophic injury. That waiting room was full of coaches and trainers from frostburg. I could not look at anyone. Someone said they dont recall seeing a big hit. They dont know what happened. This morning at practice, he was fine. Then they changed for the second practice, and at some point he said he did not feel well, and he collapsed. That night, a helicopter took him to Shock Trauma Center in baltimore. One doctor asked us if derek was in a car accident. We said, no, football. The doctor asked if he was wearing a helmet. Yes, he was. Somehow we told keaton. Thatt know how we made call, book we had no choice but to ruin her life the news about her brother. Horrible weather filled that horrible week. I remember an earthquake on wednesday centered near richmond. On saturday, hurricane irene hit the east coast. I remember derek fighting for his life in the hospital for 166 hours and 52 minutes. We were told this was a freak accident. We were told there was no unusual violent hit. We were told we dont know what happened. Later, ononths thursday, march 22, 2012, we received an anonymous enough from john doe. Email from john doe. Im going to have to read the ow, titled information behind the death of derek sheely. The only changes i have made to replace the actual coaches nams with the word coach and to abbreviate the curse words. Please imagine receiving this email about someone you love. Hello, i would like to start out by saying i am very sorry for the loss of a great spirited man as derek. Known derek since the spring of 2011. Im proud to say he was a friend and teammate of mine. Ive struggled with revealing to the family some information that nto be toldforgotte to the family by the coaches or left out. I can say after reading many interviews from the family that Important Information was left out about what happened that day and the days preceding his death. The reason i have been so conflicted with telling the information with it being so vital as i did not want to cause more hurt and pain and confusion to the family after losing their son and brother. Now i feel the family must note that it was not just an ordinary concussion, but also negligence on the part of some frostburg football coaches. Playing fullback, derek was a lot of the time in the violence and grime of football. During practice, our fullbacks were working on blocking and positions, which was normal. However, the coach made it way more dangerous than it should have been. One thing fullbacks would do is run through our place so we could correct mistakes. The fullbacks were not in the current offense of position had to go and play defense. These players giving the visual could not defend themselves. When the fullback would go to block, the coach would say, knock the fh out of him. Would try to make contact to defend themselves from they were often met with fury for not following the drill. I say all of this to give background on what happened with derek. Derek happened to be one of the defenseless players just because he was caught off guard. Im not 100 sure if a helmet helmet to helmet occured, but he looked woozy. He shook it off. Later, derek told the coach he had a headache. I kind of felt like something had to be wrong because derek never showed pain. Was, stop response and bitching and moaning ord andting like a pw get back out there. Derek did as he was instructed and continued to practice for a few more minutes. Later, if only she and was called formation was called where derek was not needed. For air. Knee, gasping a few players yelled for the coaches, look at sheely. Scoffed and waited for him to get back up. When he tried, and they realized he could not, they waited a few minutes and then walked over to him and talked to him. I dont know what was said, but then they called the trainers over, and they went back to practice. That is when i went back to practice. The next thing i saw it was the trainers trying to help them off the field when suddenly he collapsed. Told tosure what was you as far as him telling the coach that he was a headache, but two coaches were aware he had a headache and took no precautions to ensure his safety. My thoughts are still with the shealy family as they have been since august 2011. That ends the email. Were it not for the courage of brandon henderson, dereks teammate and the author of the ail, we never would have known what happened to our son. We still dont know what happened. Aid fourt for medical times over three days and was told to get back on the field every time. Dereks death was preventable. Preventable. In just six days at preseason football practice, derek suffered so much brain trauma that he died. My beautiful, smart, 22yearold son in the best shape of his life. He died, and we werent there to protect him. Our lives, our family will never be the same. We will never be the same. Ken within a few weeks of in two thousand 11, we established the Derek Sheely Foundation to prevent this kind of tragedy from happening to other children. Dereks spirit is the inspiration of his foundation. Derek was recorded in a video for a school project. In the video, he said that football is the greatest sport on the face of the air. Later the earth. Later in the video, derek passionately said if you are not going to give 100 , then keep your hands off the rock. Derek loves football. We are not trying to eliminate football. We are trying to say football. Everyone knows football is a contact sport. Everyone expects coaches and trainers to put safety first and to reasonably minimize the risk. We believe football is at risk, not because of the game itself, but because of the credibility issue with footballs leaders are having with future players. We believe there are ways to reverse this trend and we have six proposals to restore the credibility of footballs leaders. Eliminate all pointless and dangerous drills from practice. Limit both the frequency and the duration of full contact practices and replace them with noncontact practices. Aid toprovide immediate all injured players and do not injuredured berate players. It seems strange to have to say this. Hold coaches, trainers, and institutions accountable for their actions and inactions. Accountability and credibility needs to come from the coaches, trainers, and institutions. They must do the right thing after they have made a mistake. Should be have erred open to being suspended, sanctioned, or banned. As far as we know, at least one of the coaches is still Coaching College football today. Investigate all catastrophic injuries and death. This is not only required to provide due process, but it is necessary to learn lessons to further improve player safety. To our knowledge, there is no investigation in dereks case. Finally, as we are here today, raise awareness. I know this seems counterintuitive, the people and institutions are more credible when they openly discussed their flaws. The commitment has to begin with real discussion be g enuine with real discussion and follow through. Finish we would like to with one of dereks favorite poems. This is the beginning of a new day. You can use this day as you will, to waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, the state will be gone forever. In its place is what you have left behind. Let it be something great. Thank you for being here to honor derek. [applause] brian thank you, mr. And mrs. Sheely. Our hope is that we do get this right. In those of you that came later, my name is brian hainline. I am the chief medical officer for the ncaa. Im going to discuss with you now a document that is going to be coming out shortly. It is an interassociation document. I will take you through the process of what that means and what it means once we actually put it out. This is just my academic disclosure. I have no conflict of interest in presenting this information. I work fulltime for the ncaa. That is my only paid work. My volunteer work is working on many Sports Medicine organizations as a member of the board of directors or medical advisory panel. Brief in this presentation, i am going to give an overview of the ncaa Sports Science institute, talk briefly about catastrophic injury in sport, describe the process of how we put together a document and review the six areas a document, and review the six areas of discussion. Let me talk briefly about the ncaa. Ncaa is thehe person speaking in front of you now. Im a fulltime paid professional on the staff. People who about 514 work in indianapolis. Our job is to serve the membership. Member schools,