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KOREY STRINGER INSTITUTE 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PERTINACITY MOVING FORWARD FASTER: A Reflection on 10 Years of the Korey Stringer Institute Hello to our partners, collaborators, supporters, friends, and global network — What an awesome opportunity our first decade has been. Every day I pinch myself because it is an honor to do such meaningful work with such amazing people. The staff at KSI, now over 80 people strong, bubbles with THE MISSION OF THE KOREY STRINGER INSTITUTE inspiration, creativity, and passion. You just have to climb on board the wave of collective forward IS TO PROVIDE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, momentum and you are immediately the sense that KSI exhibits pertinacity catapulted to a destination closer to — persistent determination — when AND CONSULTATION TO MAXIMIZE PERFORMANCE, your goal. I had not known anything looking to overcome challenges like it prior, and I am wise enough to that have long faced those who do know it will likely never occur again. intense physical exercise as athletes, OPTIMIZE SAFETY, AND PREVENT SUDDEN DEATH But given my memorable past, having warfighters, or laborers. staff and volunteers who put in suffered life-threatening exertional the tough, thankless, and critical heat stroke at 16 years old, I can tell KSI has been unbelievably fortunate work overseeing research projects FOR THE ATHLETE, WARFIGHTER, AND LABORER. you that I will cherish every single to leverage connections in these and public health initiatives; to the second of this joyous experience. industries, along with active corporate partners who believed in collaborations in the academic and us; to the end user who showed faith I had a recent emotional experience medical space, to create a unique in what we could do to help them. All with one of my children where her not-for-profit. We not only work of it has helped us get where we are safety was briefly in grave danger, to mobilize public health policy right now. and another one of my children and changes to serve these constituents, I had to rise to the occasion to assist but being at UConn, KSI also gets My thanks to the entire KSI family my child in distress. We overcame in to do something most nonprofits for working together to honor the that wildly emotional moment, and don’t: we create new knowledge. legacy of Korey. I believe everything it was like a jolt of electricity being We implement our expertise in we have done and will do in the sent through my system. I had always the field to increase the safety and future, collectively, is a tribute to our cherished my second chance at life, performance of those in the military, namesake, and I hope with all my but was I doing every possible thing sport, and the workforce. We respect heart that our efforts will help the to make sure those who work for me this privilege and try to live up to memory of this great human being know that I appreciate them? Am I a high standard of leadership by endure. I can assure you, pertinacity inspiring them? Helping them? When remaining humble, intellectually will remain our guiding torch as we all the chips are down, am I coming curious, and engaged. push toward the next big thing. through in the clutch for them? I cannot begin to list all of those who And, yes, we will continue to stir the It is my everlasting hope that those helped us in the journey over the past pot so that we can move forward faster. who work for and with KSI not only 10 years, from the founders at UConn, experience kindness, knowledge, the NFL, and Gatorade who joined empathy, and problem solving, but Kelci and Jimmy and I to build out the Douglas J. Casa University of Connecticut most of all, I hope they’re left with bold dream of KSI; to the countless CEO, Korey Stringer Institute 01 KSI CELEBRATES INFORMATION KEY 10 YEARS HISTORICAL RESEARCH ADVOCACY MEDIA OUTREACH EDUCATION CONSULTATIONS TESTING LIVING OUR MISSION New Jersey and Texas are first states to pass heat acclimatization laws KSI begins formal collaboration with the We’re proud of a decade of accomplishments. with the help of KSI National Center for Catastrophic Sport Here are some of the highlights of the Injury Research 50 states pass laws on concussion PBS airs “Frontline: Football High” JANUARY 7TH with the help of KSI past 10 years. Timex Triathlete Training Camp KSI moves into new facility at multi-sport team research study Gampel Pavilion Pre-season research with the KSI organizes the Inter-Association Task New York Giants Force for Preventing Sudden Death in APRIL 23 Secondary School Athletics meeting NFL and Gatorade join UConn to announce the creation of the ESPN airs “Outside the Lines: KSI’s TED-Ed video, “What happens when you Korey Stringer Institute Heat Stroke” get heat stroke?” premieres (Nearly 1.5 million Kona World Ironman Championship views today) JANUARY “Good Morning America” interview elite triathlete research study The NFL, Kelci Stringer with Dr. Douglas Casa to discuss Research partnership begins with the (Korey’s wife), and Jimmy exertional heat stroke USA Cycling webinar “Exertional National Football League Gould (Korey’s agent) reach Heat Illnesses” out to Dr. Douglas Casa National Athletic Trainers’ KSI assists Portugal National Soccer Team as AUGUST 1 Association (NATA) Webinar, NFL Combine Health and Safety they prepare for the heat of the FIFA World Cup Korey tragically dies from SEPTEMBER Exertional Heat Illnesses Summit presentation KSI assists athletes at Ironman Lake Placid in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil the consequences of Key planning meeting to exertional heat stroke suffered create KSI occurs on KSI assists NASA with heat Pentagon and U.S. Army release new “Preventing Sudden Death in Sport and Falmouth Road Race research Work to improve heat safety policies with in pre-season practice UConn’s campus policies for training programs heat guidelines assisted by KSI Physical Activity (1st ed.)” is published studies begin major U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force bases begins 2001 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 HBO airs “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: Sudden Death” Over $1.5 million in funding secured Inaugural Collaborative Solutions for Safety in for Team Up for Sports Safety KSI hosts experts in the field to clarify Sport meeting held at NFL headquarters, APRIL 23 HBO airs “Real Sports with (TUFSS) initiative, impacting high hydration recommendations for athletes, hosted by KSI, the NFL, NATA, and the Ameri- 10th Anniversary of KSI Bryant Gumbel: Overheated” school sports safety policy across the coaches, and parents at the Practical can Medical Society for Sports Medicine U.S. through 2021 Hydration Solutions for Sports summit KSI and the TUFSS initiative help Louisiana pass ATLAS Project is initiated Wet Bulb Globe Thermometer (WBGT) law NPR Morning Edition airs “Off Your National Football League Foundation Mental Game? You Could Be Mildly SEPTEMBER funds Validation of Brain Function BrainScope research study starts with the KSI helps Florida pass the “Zach Martin Act,” a law requiring Dehydrated” MISSION Heat Lab Grand Opening Assessment Algorithm for mTBI from Department of Defense AEDs, AED training, cold water tubs, and WBGT in Gampel Pavilion Injury to Rehabilitation in College NPR Weekend Edition airs Athletes through 2019 First-of-its-kind online course for athletic “Return to Sports and Exercise during the COVID-19 “Researching Heatstroke in Athletes” KSI announces state Health and Safety trainers to meet evidence-based practice CEU Pandemic: Guidance for High School and Collegiate Athletic KSI, NFL team up to create video Policy Rankings for High School Athletics Boston Marathon Medical Meeting requirements developed Programs” position paper published designed to educate football CamelBak Products Hydration App at NFL Headquarters press conference presentation community about heatstroke Health Outcomes and CamelBak U.S. Tennis Association Meeting presentation KSI launches innovATe Team Sport Cooling studies Internal Body Temperature and Phys- on heat illnesses KSI hosts first HEATT Innovation iological measures validated during Douglas Casa works with the International Olympic Technology Summit NATA Research and Education Exercise and Rest study Marine Corps Marathon Medical Conference Committee in preparation for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Foundation Grant secured to presentations (through 2018) Douglas Casa works with the disseminate comprehensive safety “From Science to the Field” presentation . New Jersey signs two bills into law requiring high schools IAAF Track and Field World toolkit to improve best-practice at U.S. Soccer, Major League Soccer, KSI convenes first Youth Sport Safety to follow best practices guidelines for WBGT environmental Championships Organizing policy adoption at the secondary National Women’s Soccer League Head White House Roundtable on Climate Governing Bodies (YSSGB) meeting, hosted monitoring and implementing emergency action plans Committee in Qatar school level through 2020 Injury and Concussion in Soccer summit and Sports by the NFL at NFL Headquarters in NYC 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 03 2020 BY THE NUMBERS PUBLICATIONS MEDIA APPEARANCES STATE LEGISLATIVE 2020 FUNDING (KSI SPEAKERS) PUBLIC TESTIMONIES $1,820,148 TOTAL BOOK57 CHAPTERS/ 20INTERVIEWS/ 6 MANUSCRIPTS (published/in press) PODCASTS STATES MAKING POLICY $1,489,706 CHANGES IN 2020 RESEARCH ACTIVE GRANTS CY 2020 WEBINARS/8 CONFERENCES 17 $179,319 NON-RESEARCH RESEARCH9 NUMBER OF POLICY CHANGES IN 2020 OTHER1 $132,484 CORPORATE FUNDING/DONATIONS NON-RESEARCH3 PERSONNEL 76 TOTAL FUNDING BY YEAR RESEARCH TRIALS 22 PAID STAFF 2011-2012 $324,238 83 2013-2014 $384,700 341 VOLUNTEERS 2015-2016 $3,122,721 2015 2017-2018 $2,416,802 13 STAFF, 30 VOLUNTEERS 2010 2019-2020 $2,518,445 3 STAFF, 7 VOLUNTEERS 0 500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 2,500,000 3,000,000 3,500,000 04 05 NEW HAMPSHIRE November 2019 WASHINGTON MARYLAND September 2019 October 2019 MASSACHUSETTS August 2020 CONNECTICUT January 2019, 2020 UTAH NEW JERSEY March 2018 March 2019 DELAWARE October 2019 ATLAS PROJECT CELEBRATES 5TH ANNIVERSARY COLORADO WASHINGTON, D.C.

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