There is a member of the women’s soccer team that has an undiagnosed exercised induced disease. She has been to a vast amount of doctors and the only thing they have been able to do is to rule out seizures. Although, seizures may have been rules out she still presents with very seizure-like symptoms when it happens. She starts by losing cognitive function and no one is able to get her to respond to his or her attempts at getting her attention. She also has a tendency during this stage to start hitting her legs, in the belief that this somehow will help or just a twitch that comes with the episode. Her eyes also are no able to focus on anything and she starts to move very slowly without a lot of control. Normally when she hits this part of the
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That was until the game Wednesday, September 14th. It was an away game against Dordt College and the athlete with the condition was playing outside midfield. This is a position where the most running will occur. She had just made a run up the sideline of the field when the defense for Dordt got the ball and they started to attack BVU’s goal. Typically this is when the athlete with the condition would start to run back on defense, although this is not what happened. I was playing forward and running back with the play when a turned around and saw her showing the symptoms that she was having an episode. I started to walk towards her and yell at my team to kick the ball out and get our certified athletic training to come help. Even though I was trying to do all this as fast as possible no one heard my yells and before I even go to the girl having the episode she fell face first into the ground. At this point, the ball had finally been kicked out and I had arrived at the side of the girl. The team's another coach was there too and I had to instruct him to not touch her and to treat it like a seizure. Quickly BVU’s certified athletic trainer showed up and got the situation under control. After about a couple minutes of waiting for her to regain consciously, she was removed from the field and spent the rest
That was until the game Wednesday, September 14th. It was an away game against Dordt College and the athlete with the condition was playing outside midfield. This is a position where the most running will occur. She had just made a run up the sideline of the field when the defense for Dordt got the ball and they started to attack BVU’s goal. Typically this is when the athlete with the condition would start to run back on defense, although this is not what happened. I was playing forward and running back with the play when a turned around and saw her showing the symptoms that she was having an episode. I started to walk towards her and yell at my team to kick the ball out and get our certified athletic training to come help. Even though I was trying to do all this as fast as possible no one heard my yells and before I even go to the girl having the episode she fell face first into the ground. At this point, the ball had finally been kicked out and I had arrived at the side of the girl. The team's another coach was there too and I had to instruct him to not touch her and to treat it like a seizure. Quickly BVU’s certified athletic trainer showed up and got the situation under control. After about a couple minutes of waiting for her to regain consciously, she was removed from the field and spent the rest