The amount of data generated seems to be at the nominal. Is this useful for phenomenal. Is this useful for anyone else in the sport . Is a general manager interested in these performance statistics . It just seems like this has the potential for changing the way competition is handled by the how well youre able to manage these large data flows. Would you meant on it . Mr. Eggert i think general managers have an increasingly great interest in Data Acquisition and management and i think the sport is moving in that direction to be more databased and less just see how a person swings the bat. Its gotten so far i think theres espn Fantasy Sports analyst who is good at this you may continue to watch this hearing online at cspan. Org. Did you want to add to that . There are many that actually employee members of their look atstaff that will players and see how they play in certain environments and decide how they select. The entire concept of the movie money ball and how he was selecting teams for the oakland as was based on the analytics. Studying we have been doing the disruptors series. Its the way that date is now throughand managed every status of every strata of our ecosystem heard mr. Pallone made the observation driven becauses you might have players who are on a raster roster that is now interested in. While he was describing that, i couldnt help but think am i fast if this had been around it is purely speculation at this point. Purely speculative, mr. Chairman. I want to thank our panel. Yes, the young lady is recognized. Last night, i was one of 5 Million People who checked out john olivers explanation of , regardlessy sports of ones position on it, you might get a kick out of it. Im not his agent. I get no kickbacks from john oliver. It is humorous, but also informative. Seeing no further members wishing to ask questions, i do want to thank our witnesses for being here today. Before we conclude, i would like to submit the following records. Americanfrom the gaming association. A letter from the mellman group. Remember from the stop predatory gaveling group. A letter from the state legislators. Letter from the office it office of the attorney general from the state of texas. I remind members that have 10 Business Days to submit questions for the director and i asked him to submit their responses within 10 Business Days upon receipt of those questions. Without further objection, this meeting stands adjourned. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] announcer rob bishop, chair of the Natural ResourcesCommittee Discusses what congress is doing to help puerto rico address is challenges in drafting the bill. In this portion, he talks about the impact of delaying legislation. Date by which action becomes too late . In my mind, i think that happened about three weeks ago. Now, yes and no. Theyve had three defaults on their payments. May 1 was a huge default. Another one is coming on july 1, which is an even bigger potential problem. But the answer is, no. Because the problem does not go away. It only exacerbates. So whenever you do it, it is good. It isoner you do it, better. What do you say to taxpayers who are maybe hearing from their representative in their district that this is a bay offer puerto rico. There is no reason why anyone should say that. I dont care how you want to define the word bailout, this is not a bailout. There is no minute no money going down there. There is no taxpayer money that is going to be put in jeopardy. This is a structural reorganization of their Economic Situation so that people and be paid and Property Rights can be restrict respected. However, if this thing fails and we dont do it, there will be a large, huge, u. N. Cry for taxpayer going directly to puerto rico to help the situation. And even i cannot support that. But this is the appropriate approach. This is the best approach. And if you dont do this, then you have a good chance of ending up at the end of the day with a bailout and that is a worst scenario your that is what the speaker and everyone else involved took off the table in the beginning. That would not be one of the criterias. Lacks there are ads out there saying it is a bailout. We do not know whos behind them because they didnt have to disclose their donors. That runink those ads every few minutes on new channels here in washington and other places around the country, do you think that has hurt your efforts . Ironically, no. Andas was so overthetop unbelievable, once people were told what we were really doing with the bill, they were, like a mao, i get that. In my district, the nicest thing they did was put a phone number for them to call and say i dont want a bailout and staff was able to say this is what it is actually doing during people were saying, oh, will that make sense. So i am appreciative of them putting the number on there. If they had not put the number on there, no one had no one would have had taken the time to look it out. Announcer today at 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. On cspan. Announcer now a house and onrgy and commerce hearing youth sports. Medical and Sports Professionals were among those who testified. Efforts to protect Young Athletes from injury. This portion of the hearing is one hour and 15 minutes. Thank you. We will move in right away. We would like to give you all an opportunity to testify. I would like to introduce the witnesses of our second cow. We have mr. Eugene betty t vince to lead up our second panel. I believe you were a former teammate of tim murphy. Dr. Gregorys here as an advisor for usa football. Margaruchi serves as the manager of player safety. We welcome mr. Steve stennis and, executive director and coo of usa lacrosse since 1998. Mr. Oneill is a founder and ceo of High School Coaches on alternative practice regimens. Next, dr. Don comstock, who is in highiate Professor School injury surveillance. And finally, dr. Thomas told watch. School. R at the weldon he is also the founding mrirector of perdues facility. Thanks to all the witnesses for being here today. Aware. All objections tony testifying under oath . You are entitled to be advised of counsel. In that case, would you all please rise, raise your hand and i will swear u. N. Do you swear the testimonies the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Thank you. Both answered affirmatively and you are now under oath. Your subject to the penalties set forth in title 18 of the United States code. I will ask you to give a five minute summary of your statement therell be a light in front of you that will turn red when your time is up. Turn your microphone on and bring it close. Chairman murphy, and Ranking Members and members of the subcommittee, good morning and thank you for this opportunity to provide testimony on the important issue regarding youth and youth related sports concussion. I work with all age groups, peewee through high school aged kids. Game. Ll is a very special the life lessons, with all the team sports, things people learn, the friendships they make, the experiences they have. I love the game of football. But i love my players more. Looking at the concussion head injuries through time, five years ago, i made the decision that we would eliminate tackling from our practices. And the guarantee i make to parents is there son comes to harm of, there they will not tackle or the tackled for four years. I wasnt 100 sure i was doing the right thing. I worried about my players. Was i putting them at a competitive disadvantage . Themare was i preparing fully for games . I was convinced i did a lot of research on it. The way that we teach tackling is the is not the way that we tackle in games. I looked at the defensive tape. Then we tried to replicate what we saw in games against pads, pitting them against other players, tackling sleds. A mobile tackling device which has been quite beneficial in terms of actually replicating a moving target. With that, we actually tackle more than anybody else in the country. Each of my players annually, 800 , 500 to 800 tackles per year oneonone against another human being. What has happened is our injury injury reduction has been phenomenal. Me why. Sk quite simply, the skill of thaning, we practice more we did when we were tackling life. In our sport, tackling is practiced the least because of the fear of injury. By putting guys in a position to tactical to tackle with regularity, we have been much more proficient. You hear a lot about rugby tackling. Sport. L is a different shoulder tackling something we do preach. We take the head completely out of context or in spirit it is like riding a bike. You dont let you dont put someone on a bike and let them try to figure out. You use training wheels and support from parents. I do the same thing. Can you do that at Different Levels . Absolutely. Concussion results in practice are probably some of the best. A footballe from team that struggled at times to be a Championship Team in the last two years. This year. Nship and we had zero defensive concussion injuries. It is all how you present it to your players. It has been wonderful from a recruiting standpoint. I speak nationally with this. They all say, how do you teach someone who has never tackled a human being . Start with pads and progress forward. I would like to kick on a video right now if i could. This will demonstrate how we practice tackling. We tackle literally every day when we practice. We put people in a position to execute on game day. A defensive lineman will not execute the same skills [indiscernible] we have broken down levels of tackling. The end result is playing at a very high level. Thank you very much. Now we recognize dr. Get dr. Gregory for five minutes. Dr. Gregory chairman murphy, and Ranking Members and members of the subcommittee, good morning and thank you for this opportunity to provide testimony insured, usa football is the National Governing body, an independent Nonprofit Organization. We created resources and direct programs and standards using the best available science educating parents and athletes. We are endorsed by 40 organizations, including American College of sports organization. I would like to highlight three elements about you say football that addresses player safety. The first of that is education. We train more youth in High School Coaches can buy than other organization in the u. S. Education is the core of our heads up Football Program. We are going to highlight that. This is is delivered through online courses and imprison clinics. There are six educational components to this program which you can see listed on the sly. Concussion concussion recognition response, fairness and hydration, sudden cardiac arrest, proper equipment fitting and then tackling a blocking techniques. More than 6300 youth leagues in 1100 high school Hundred High School nationwides represented about 1 million Young Athletes in rolled in heads up football in 2015. The second element is research. Usa football football advances player safety by commissioning independent research. According to a 2014 youth football study encompassing more than 2000 players, leaks that participated in the heads up program showed a 76 reduction of injuries during practice, 38 of injuries during games, ready for fewer concussions during practice and 29 decline in concussions during games. A subset of this group showed the players in the leagues had enrolled in heads up football had fewer impact during practice which made quite to more than 100 fewer impacts in the season. On the High School Level, Fairfax CountyPublic Schools have have reported 43 decline in Football League concussions since 2013 for 3000 players since implementing heads up football. A 24 decline in overall football injuries. Finally well highlight innovation. Usa football provides practice guidelines, practice planning tools and defined levels of contact. You can see the levels of contact listed on the side including air, bag, control, which is a noncontact or nontaking down rule, flood which is a control drill what you are not taken to the ground but there is contact and then finally live action where you are taking down to the ground. More young football are in the fundamentals of advancing to full contact. Where usa Football Program is in place, todays youth football is not the same as it used to be for your children or what you may have watched. Will conclude with a video showing the difference that usa football has and the difference were making. [video clip] the Pilot Program for heads up football may be the first player safety coaches it completely changed everything. Were looking around going why are we not all doing this. There is nothing here that fundamentally changes the game of football. Theres nothing here that were not currently teaching. Were just were just teaching a 25 different ways. Ultimately there is a sena return that were making the game safer. Everything evolves. Everything grows. As a League Administration or administrator, i can i i cant even imagine a program that doesnt do it. Heads up football has changed the way we play, the way we act its how we are teaching our athletes to play the game. Is part of the fabric of what we do. We have seen a sound decrease in concussion, in collision injury. Data are able to show with. Thats a big deal. Now thatking tackles we may not have made a few years ago just because we constantly hammer in the basics. Our generation is getting taught a different way to tackle like this is the right way, do this. Do it yesterday, both from the youth core level and then from the High School Level. This is only making this a better game. Better, safer game. Thank you. I will now hear the testimony for 5 minutes. Thank you chairman murphy, Ranking Member and distinguish members of the subcommittee. It is a privilege to be here today on behalf of usa hockey to discuss the issue of player safety. Usa hockey takes safety as a top priority, it always has and has been a leader in safety among youth sports. Safety starts with our leadership and goes on down to the rest of our organization, from our president jim smith, our executive director, executive director, our chief medical and safety officer, who its from the mayo clinic in rochester, minnesota. The chairman chairman from our safety and protective equipment from Saint ElizabethMedical Center in boston, he chairs a committee that is been around for 40 years which guides our board and making Safety Policies for sport. The usa Hockey Foundation yearly awards grants in the areas of injury prevention and research with ice hockey injuries. Recently i was hired as manager of player safety, Fulltime Position that usa hockey. Which further shows a commitment to safety in our sport. Finally, we have had hockey equipment and certification counsel which was urged to be formed by usa hockey in 1978. This is an independent body which studies equipment that manufactures and meets the standards of protection in ice hockey. When we look at prevention, we start with our rules and enforcement. We have a very strict officiating Education Program which involves online modules for rest at every level. Classroom work and on ice clinics. At every level i officials are working, they are supervised, mentored and given feedback and shown videos of proper rule enforcement to make the game safer. We have implemented stricter penalties with emphasis on boarding, charging, checking from behind and had contact. In 2009 and 2010 a rulebook focused on the standards of a rulebook focused on the standards of play and emphasis on body checking. In 2011 our executive board rolled to make a rule change which increase the legal age of body checking in our sport from 12 and under level to the 14 and under level. This decision was based on Scientific Research, not only on player Skill Development but also safety and injury risk between those age groups. In 2009, usa hockey created the American Development model. This model is an ageappropriate Skill Development and training based off of research of longterm athlete development. Our coaching Education Program has been a Gold Standard in youth sports for years. In 2011 in 2011 and 2012, there became online required modules for coaches which include concussion awareness and recognition for all the ageappropriate levels. Within the structure we have published a check in the right way for youth hockey which is an ageappropriate for skills to properly body check in the game of hockey. It starts with skating and is always focused on attitudes, ethics, and respect for the sports and components. Opponents. It goes from skating positioning angling, stick positioning in angling, stick position coming body contact and body checking. Heads up dont duck was a program initiated in 1995, this was followed in 2010 buyer heads up Hockey Program. Both programs emphasis both programs emphasis is playing the game with your head up, specially when coming in contact with the words, go p