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This season the Mules varsity players are equipped with wireless impact sensors. “Basically it’s a liner that goes inside the helmet,” explains Gene Philips, the Alamo Heights School District athletic director. He says the Mules’ booster club paid $8,000 dollars for the impact sensor system.
As concussions garner debate in the football world, Hortonville High School is doing its part to protect young players and keep concerned families from pulling out of the sport. This fall the Polar Bears step onto the gridiron every Friday night with a high-tech lifeline inside their helmets. In the words of Jen Kalwitz, mother of senior linebacker Blake Kalwitz, the cutting-edge Riddell InSite Response System is “one more set of eyes of the field” to aid the athletic trainer and coaches.
Jason Spells does a live interview with Coby Fleener at USA Football’s Protection Tour event in Indianapolis.
Coby Fleener is with us and he is here to talk about the USA Football 2015 Protection Tour... Coby how did you get involved with this? "I think it was a good fit because USA Football is based in Indianapolis. I have talked with Riddell before because I wear their highest rate helmet, actually the highest rated helmet available, because I want to protect myself as best as possible... and so it was only a natural fit when they came and said hey we are trying to make the game safer, would you try to get the word out there for us, and I said yeah."
We are entering the third year of a ground-breaking study between TGen, ASU, Barrow, AT Still University, and Riddell that correlates accelerometer data in football helmets with biomarkers in the blood, urine and saliva to objectively diagnose concussions.
Riddell invested in a technology called HITS or our sideline response system, which is an instrumented on-field helmet technology that can monitor the head impacts that players are seeing on the field and wirelessly report that information back to the sideline.
Varsity football players are wearing new top of the line helmets this year. They have sensors which send an alert to a coach if a player is hit especially hard.
Now one district is implementing new technology to better protect players. The team outfitted about 50 helmets with a battery operated sensor system designed to measure the severity of impact. The sensors are then installed inside the helmet underneath protective padding.
For this upcoming season, the league plans to introduce 15 to 20 new helmets that will use Riddell InSite, a technology from the helmet-maker that allows for impacts to heads to be measured in real time using a sophisticated monitoring system.
When Madison-Grant's football team takes the field Monday for the first official IHSAA practice, nearly half of the players will wear the latest in football helmet technology. The Riddell SpeedFlex not only flexes to absorb head impact, the helmet also has a monitoring system that can alert coaches and trainers to potential concussions.
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