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Next season every Eagles football player – from varsity to junior high – will wear Riddell’s state-of-the-art SpeedFlex Helmets, designed to disperse energy and reduce the risk of head trauma. The Exeter School Board this month approved purchase of 145 helmets at a cost of $55,825. Exeter players will be the first in Berks County to wear them.
Chargers first round pick Joey Bosa stops by the equipment room to get fitted for his Chargers gear for the first time by Riddell Sports' Tom and Kyle Shaw.
Flagler is the first school district in Florida — and possibly the Southeast — to purchase football helmets with new technology that will allow it to electronically monitor and track hits to players’ heads. The Riddell InSite Impact Response System contains a sensor inside the helmet that registers impacts in five areas — front, both sides, top and back of the head — and alerts coaches and athletic trainers on the sidelines when a player receives a significant hit.
The University of Iowa football program remains on the cutting edge of progress compared to most of its Division I peers. A recent example occurred May 4 when members of Riddell Sports trekked to the equipment room in the Richard O. Jacobson Football Operations Building where they scanned heads of 10 UI football players in order to design custom-fit helmets. With head injuries and concussions among the hot topics within the sport, Riddell has partnered with the UI to keep player safety at the forefront.
Flagler County football players will soon use helmets with new technology, Riddell InSite, that will monitor head injuries.
To celebrate the NFL Draft in Chicago for the second straight year, Riddell Sports scattered NFL team helmets around the city as part of the #FlexYourFandom campaign.
Riddell has a photo colleciton of NFL helmets in front of some well-known Chicago locations.
In an effort to enhance protection of student athletes at Flagler Palm Coast High School and Matanzas High School, the district today presented a plan to the school board that would replace current football helmets with Riddell InSite that arms helmets with sensors and enables coaches and trainers to know in real time who is getting hit in the head and with what severity.
For the Bear River Bruins football team, the future of football is now. In an effort to take another step towards the safety of its players, the Bear River varsity football team will be the first team in the area using new technology, the Riddell InSite monitoring system, this season that they hope will help make a difference in the reduction of head injuries and concussions.
When prep football kicks off this fall, Flagler County schools will be on the cutting edge regarding the prevention and treatment of high school football concussions. That's because the purchase of new helmet-based impact technology, Riddell InSite, will make it the first school district in Florida, and maybe the Southeast, to electronically monitor and track hits to players' heads on a district-wide basis.
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