An 18-year-old Florida high school basketball player died on Saturday after collapsing at practice a day earlier, one of his former coaches says.When I respond to people who want to sign up for my "Introduction to USPSA" class, I include the following boilerplate text:
"IPSC competition is safer than high-school football."
Perhaps I should widen that comment; perhaps I should say "safer than high-school athletic sports."
I've never seen anyone die on the Playing Fields of IPSC.
Which is more than we can say about Florida High-School Basketball.
2 comments:
You are right there are several deaths, and/or very serious injuries associated with high school sports every year. The only death I know of associated with IPSC occurred near Dallas, Texas probably 20 some years ago. A young man was killed by ricochet.
Antipoda
I got more serious injuries playing basketball than any other sport.
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