It's Wayne Mauser, local news.
Good morning.
I'm Wayne Mauser for Civic Media News.
The 47-year-old Milwaukee man suspected of robbing and shooting a man in Amro and leading authorities on a wild chase with a U-Haul in Winnebago and Fond du Lac counties has been sentenced.
Oma Brown was in Winnebago County Court on Tuesday, where he was sentenced to 31 years in prison and 21 years of extended supervision.
Brown's co-defendant, 29-year-old Shakira Ray of Green Bay, was previously sentenced on felony theft and felon in possession of a firearm charges for the July 15, 2024 incident.
She received seven and a half years in prison and seven and a half years of extended supervision.
According to the criminal complaint, the victim, a 65-year-old
was hit in the head and shot in the left hand during a struggle over a gun.
Brown was trying to buy a car from the victim using fake checks.
Brown and Ray used a U-Haul to get away.
The subsequent vehicle trace culminated in Fond du Lac.
Wapaka County law enforcement agencies are joining others across the state, suspending the use of the flock camera system automated license plate readers.
A joint press release issued Tuesday says,
Quote, to be clear, the decision is not the result of misconduct in proper searches or misuse of the system by Wapaka County law enforcement personnel.
Our concern is our ability to control sensitive information once it leaves our agencies and becomes accessible through a larger network, unquote.
The decision was reached jointly by the Wapaka County Sheriff's Office and police departments in Wapaka, Clintonville, New London, Iola, Manawa, Marion.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reminds deer hunters that the archery and crossbow seasons open Saturday and run through Sunday, January 3rd.
As hunters head out to the woods, be sure to make safety the number one priority and always use a harmless haul line and maintain three points of contact when getting in and out of a tree stand.
The DNR also reminds hunters that there were updates to several deer management units in 2025, referred to
the updated season structure and management zone maps to see if the unit you hunt in has changed.
Hunters will need to know their management zone and deer management unit number, county, when purchasing an authorization or license and registering their deer.
Bonus antlerless harvest authorizations remain available in many units.
Fundalight County's public health officer says any time is a good time to have conversations about what we are doing to prevent drug overdoses.
Bob Nelson reports for Civic Media News.
International Overdose Awareness Day was held on August 31st.
Kim Milner says that's a good time to remember those we've lost overdoses and talk about what communities can do to prevent more deaths.
In public health we've learned that we need multiple layers for prevention, education, treatment and recovery services.
That early intervention is so important as well.
She says the use of Narcan and test strips to detect fentanyl
have helped, but we also need to get those saved from an overdose into recovery.
She points out that we've been talking about drug overdoses for 25 years, but we need to consider what we're doing to make the next 25 years look better.
I'm Pop Nelson for Civic Media.
news.
As a new school year gets underway across the Oshkosh area school district, local residents are invited to engage with the district in a meaningful way.
Applications are now open for the 2026-27 Oshkosh Schools Academy.
The seven month program officially kicks off in October and runs through April of 2027.
Monthly sessions take place on Friday mornings from 8 to 10 a.m.
at the district administration office.
The academy gives participants an inside look at the decision
applications, budgets, facilities plans, and academic systems that support district schools and students.
Each session features direct interaction with district staff and Q&A opportunities.
Applications are open through Friday, September 18th.
The program is limited to 20 to 30 participants.
All applicants will be notified of their status by September 25th.
For more information and to apply, visit the Oshkosh Area School District website.
Their memorial fund has donated Epinephrine to the Dodge County Sheriff's Office.
The Andrew Miller Foundation provided Sheriff's Office personnel with free Epinephrine training.
The fund has equipped about a dozen Sheriff's offices in Wisconsin so far with Epinephrine and training.
Mark and Kristen Miller established the fund to raise funds for Epinephrine awareness and response.
Their son Andrew Miller lost his life due to complications from a peanut allergy he was not previously aware of.
The Wapaka County Sheriff's Office was another agency that recently received a similar donation from the Memorial Fund.
I'm Wayne Mauser for Civic Media News.
Aggressive yellow jackets are all the buzz around Wisconsin right now.
Reports from outdoor eateries everywhere from Green Bay to Milwaukee say this year seems worse than ever for bees swarming tables.
And it's not just restaurants with outdoor seating that are seeing the activity.
This is the time of year when just filling up your car a bit too close to the garbage can at a gas station could result in a sting worse than the price at the pump.
Experts say a combination of factors are making this year especially bad for the swarming pests.
Dr. Michael Draney is a professor of biology at UW-Green Bay.
Draney says, unlike bees that are pollinators, yellow jackets are predatory, typically feeding on bugs.
But as summer turns to fall and bugs die off,
Wasps need to find another food source, and they can get aggressive.
Plus, this time of year, Draney says yellow jackets need quick, efficient energy to survive.
That means sugar.
Making your soda, birthday cake, or beer, is especially enticing.
Experts say recent milder winters have led to more wasps surviving, meaning more nests.
One thing they suggest you could do is put a high source of sugar out to lure them away from your table to that other food source, but it's something they say we're going to have to deal with for a while, at least until the first hard freeze.
A new federal voter fraud investigation push is expected to include Wisconsin, according to CNN.
It comes as the November midterm election gets closer.
It's reported that Homeland Security plans to pursue leads, conduct interviews, and help prosecutors review possible cases through mid-October.
DHS says only American citizens should be choosing American leaders, but experts have said widespread voter fraud has not been shown in recent elections.
The agency has not released details on any Wisconsin cases.
Six, Wisconsin law enforcement agencies are ending their use of flock safety license plate reader cameras.
The Racine County Sheriff's Office and five agencies in Fond du Lac County recently announced they were discontinuing the systems.
Officials said they learned flock's technology went beyond traditional license plate reading after the company offered Sheboygan five years of collected traffic volume and speed data.
Several police officials say they did not know the cameras were collecting additional information.
agencies join Kenosha and Sheboygan, which are seeking to cancel their flock contracts.
The Green Bay Landmarks Commission is taking action against a historic downtown building that's more than 100 years old.
The property is reportedly sat vacant for more than 10 years, with plastic covering its upper windows for the past two years.
The designation allows the city to order repairs and potentially complete safety work at the owner's expense.
City officials say little progress has been made despite repeated warnings, while the owner says contractors have been hired and potential buyers are interested.
The building is the second property in Green Bay to receive a demolition by neglect designation.
42 locations in Wisconsin are receiving grants to build electric vehicle charging stations.
Governor Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation made the announcement on Tuesday the project, which totals $25 million, was secured through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program.
A Madison Elementary School is going by a new name.
The city board of education recently voted to change the name of Conrad LVM Elementary to Ada Deere Elementary, honoring a former Menominee tribal leader.
She passed away three years ago at the age of 88, but not before helping restore federal recognition of her tribe.
LVM, a former president of UW Madison, had ties to racial discrimination decades ago, leading to the change.
And that's your state news update.
I'm Connie Feldman for Civic Media
College football, the Wisconsin Badgers at home Saturday night against Eastern Illinois.
The Packers play the Vikings Sunday at 3.25.
Green Bay is now three and four at U.S.
Bank Stadium since Matt LaFleur took over as head coach with Sports on Mike Clemens.
It is going to be sunny and really nice today.
We're headed to 75 for a high this afternoon.
Tonight clear, low of 58 tomorrow.
Sunny and a little breezy tomorrow with a high of 76.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable.
Our guest at this time is Kathy Shlevy who is the administrator for the city of Wampan.
Thank you for joining us this morning.
Good morning.
Now a big deal recently Wampan was named as a Main Street to community.
Is this something that the city has been working to toward for a while?
Yeah, we have actually been working on trying to
Focus on Main Street revitalization since I before I got here I started in 2015 and if I look at some of the planning documents that were put together I think this really goes way back to 1988 when We formed a business improvement district and at that point I think the state of Wisconsin was really trying to introduce the Main Street model and You know our planning was built around the Main Street pillars
But we, you know, we had a bait basis for it, but we didn't go all in at that point in time.
And we've really been working on trying to bring that back and the focus on that.
And over the last year, we were invited into a cohort with WEDC to work through planning and trying to get a group aligned around this idea.
And that experience really did create
focus of a group here in Wapan that is committed to carrying the Main Street vision forward and so we applied right at the beginning or end of June and received notice in August that we have been accepted into the program.
So it's a long time coming I would say.
Okay so it's a program that's overseen by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.
Correct.
And they provide
Was it technical support for downtown revitalization and economic development efforts?
Right.
It's pretty extensive technical support.
It's everything from, you know, how do you attract small businesses into your community to how do you deal with these historic buildings that sometimes need a lot of repair because maybe they haven't had attention for a period of time.
How do you support that with capital?
So there's additional grant funding opportunities that come with this designation to help.
And, you know, it feels like they're always trying to equip these groups with tools from how do you deal with the question of promoting upper-level living.
And some of these buildings are just vacant downtown.
So can we encourage more...
construction of apartments and how do we go about doing that or if somebody wants to introduce that on the lower level, what are the best strategies to ensure you've maintained the integrity of your commercial district at the same time.
So there are just a lot of resources and tools to help support thinking through the challenges that we face today.
Not really sure how to ask this, so I'll just come up and ask it.
Who's gonna be calling the shots for Waupon Main Street?
So there's a group forming called Discover Waupon and their focus will be on kind of economic development and a tourism combination that's gonna fit within that and so they will receive some public money and by public I mean
Business improvement tax district tax funds.
So that's an elective tax paid by the building owners in a specified district our commercial district downtown as well as room tax dollars, which are dollars that come in from the outside and then used to really promote the community as well as some pretty significant efforts to fund raise and do events within the community that will contribute to their financial model
Okay
So, setting goals is still something that has to be done?
I
would say over the last years, this group has been working together.
They've established some goals.
You know, they're a startup, right?
And so, very much, they're in the early phases of trying to get this off the ground and kind of stabilize, if you will.
And over the next 18 to 24 months, I would say that those goals are going to become a little more crystallized and fine-tuned.
But I do think that there's a pretty good vision that's been cast because of the year-long planning process we worked through.
All right.
Kathy, you mentioned you've been with the city since 2015.
Have you seen a lot of progress since you started?
I would say that we've seen significant progress.
There's been some fairly significant investment that has been made by local entrepreneurs and at the same time we have been really Excuse me.
I'm in a cough, you know, I have a cold so I apologize.
No, that's okay.
That's
okay Sorry about that So at the same time we've been really trying to get some of the pillars working so there's been a group that's formed and
has been doing some event planning and promotion.
There is a group now that's forming around a pillar that's called economic vitality.
So it's all things entrepreneurship.
We do work very closely with Envision Greater Fond du Lac and the Ignite Network.
And so very much there's going to be a partnership model that's embedded to help bring some of those Ignite tools pretty consistently into WAPON.
And then design is something we've done, I think, for years, and that's been really done in the form of facade grants.
But
we've been really successful at bringing in a couple of vibrant spaces grants from WEDC to really look at how do we not only beautify but activate vacant spaces that, you know, where a building maybe has come down or, you know, because it's deteriorated or
um what have you so that we can you know programmatically also bring foot traffic into the downtown and so like there are a lot of moving pieces that have been working this is just a more cohesive kind of united front to make this successful
so what you're saying is that the main street program is a collaborative process then
100 i think you know like it
It is going to require a full-time director.
And so that group has been working on putting, bringing in an interim startup director.
But one person alone is not going to be able to do this work.
It's going to take ongoing cooperative, collaborative efforts to make this work long-term.
Okay.
Speaking as a city official, what is the city's role going to be in this?
So I personally feel some relief because of this, because it's no longer completely dependent on my input.
There is really a group that's carrying the weight.
So from my chair, I am going to be a participating member.
I'm going to sit on the board.
I'm going to help guide and direct and coach.
in a lot of ways, because I've had some success with the WEDC tools and trying to expand the knowledge and understanding of that and then build kind of a sustainable organization is really our next step.
So time is going to be the commitment, but it's consistent with what we've been doing.
So I'm excited to be able to transfer some knowledge here.
So will there be other city officials on the board for Main Street then?
So at this point, no, it'll function a lot the way our business improvement district has been functioning with some additions to the to the board, including a hotelier because of the tourism component.
So the mayor has historically appointed that business improvement district board.
So I would say it'll function in similar vein.
Okay.
So when will Main Street be up and running?
Is there some kind of target date or goal?
Yeah.
So, you know, for all intents and purposes, we're functioning as a Main Street now, formalized.
We're really looking at the final quarter of 2026 and then full implementation as of January in a perfect world, right?
That's the plan right now, 2027.
Okay.
Kathy, thank you very much for joining us today.
Thanks for having me.
We've been talking with Kathy Schlebi, who is the administrator for the city of Wapan.
Joining us at this time, we have Chris Schachtschneider, who is the athletic training lead for Rippin Community Hospital.
Chris recently completed an evidence-based practice fellowship project through SSM Health focused on concussion education in high school athletes.
Good morning.
Good morning.
That was just a summary.
Now we've got to expand on it.
I suppose.
All right.
So there's been a big discussion.
about concussions, especially when it comes to high school and college sports and, well, pro sports too.
But why do concussions often go unreported?
I think there's several factors to that.
I think we still have kind of an older school thought process of, well, while I was in school, I got hit and I was fine.
I think that's part of it.
I think kids I know kids don't want to report it because they Assume that that is going to keep them from playing which it does in the short term And so they they try to hide their symptoms and and power through And then I think there's also a part where the kids just don't either a understand the symptoms that they're feeling and that it is not normal or the severity
um, and what, uh, issues might arise from ignoring those symptoms.
So you're talking 40 to 50% of concussions go unreported?
Uh, yeah, that's correct.
Uh, I think, um, partly again, it's, it's kids not necessarily recognizing that they, they have something, you know, they, um, I've been at games where all of a sudden a parent comes out of the crowd and their ibuprofen and Tylenol getting thrown around.
And then you never see anything after that.
So yeah, I think there's definitely some stuff that goes on in the sidelines and the games that either they don't recognize or they ignore.
OK, so what are the dangers of not taking it seriously?
Well, just from the bare minimum, it's going to
increase the amount of time it takes to return to a baseline.
So, you know, you have an injury in the head.
There's chemical reactions that occur and synapses that don't quite connect right.
And when that happens, you can get, you know, dizzy, your eyes kind of somewhat almost disconnect from your brain so they don't necessarily, not physically, but they don't quite work the way that the brain is expected them to.
And all of those things just lead to those symptoms lasting longer.
And so when that happens, it's harder for kids to take tests.
They forget what the math problem was.
They forget what classroom they're in, you know, those types of things.
And then on the worst case scenario, because there's a healing going on in the brain, a secondary hit, especially in this age group, anyone under the age of 25 where the brain is still developing, there is
an incident of sudden impact secondary impact syndrome where It can lead to a coma or death, you know, we don't like to cheer you know harp on that with kids because we don't want them to be You know afraid to do anything, but it is something that you know the main reason why all these concussion protocols have been created
All right your project
You worked with two local high schools on educational intervention.
Can you tell us about that?
Sure, what I wanted to do is, you know, I know that kids don't like to report.
And so what I was trying to find is any sort of evidence-based study that showed an intervention that might actually lead to them reporting it.
So in the past, you would
you go to school, you get a handout that said this is what a concussion is, then you sign the sheet and you walk away.
Obviously, those aren't going to get read, and they don't really show any benefits as far as likelihood to report.
And so there were a few that I found throughout the research.
And I tried to find one that was effective, but also practical.
One that was effective was to do a pre-game huddle with the team and talk about concussions.
And that's not necessarily practical because that requires somebody to be at every game at every time.
And so the one that I settled on was there was a yet of Georgia where they take an athlete basically through a scenario and then there's a decision point.
And so like this is the injury.
Okay, now you have a decision to make do you tell somebody do you don't tell someone and here's what happens if you don't do here's what happens if you don't and so in showing going through that presentation to 169 kids throughout two high schools I showed a 22% like greater likelihood for kids to share their symptoms and concussion injury with
either an athletic trainer, a parent, or a coach.
Can you name the two schools or am I pushing it too
much?
Oh, no.
Nope.
It was ripping the market in.
Okay.
So those are the two
schools that I primarily cover, but, um, uh, and so it was easy to, to get in front of those groups.
All right.
So, um, the first thing that would come to mind is football, but you can get concussions in hockey, soccer,
Baseball, I suppose.
Basketball.
We've had
cross country and had them in every sport.
Right.
So we're not just focusing on one sport here, but the entire spectrum.
Correct.
Yep.
Okay.
So what were the key findings of your project?
Because I understand you're actually going to do a presentation on this for John Hopkins conference in November.
Yeah, that's got that par point up now and I'm a little afraid of it, actually.
The point of the presentation really is to just talk through the process.
So you look at what was your, what did you want to pick?
What's your statement, your PICO statement?
And then you look at what are you trying to accomplish?
How did you find the research?
And what did you come up with for an intervention and how did it turn out?
And so, as like I said, we took those students and we took them through that course and we showed an improvement in likelihood to report.
And since then, I guess what I've learned from that project is that getting in front of parents and athletes is the ideal scenario.
But that's not
really always applicable.
And so I tried to make it into a virtual course and did not have the same sort of results.
So now I've taken a different approach and shortened it up.
And no, so it was a 17-minute presentation.
Now it's down to a five.
And I have
you know, sending that out to coaches so that they are watching it with their team.
But when I can get in front of those groups and when our other athletic trainers can get in front of their schools, we really try to do that.
Okay.
So you talk with the athletes, you've done video presentation for coaches.
What about the parents?
Hi, parents are welcome to watch it as well.
And when we did have our, when I did do this intervention at the two schools,
Most of the meetings did include the parents as well.
And so they didn't have to answer the survey questions.
They just watched along, but I think it's important.
And the concussion process is very complicated.
It is not like an ankle sprain where, okay, they're limping, now they're not limping, okay, now we run, now we're good to go.
There's so many different
variables that can play into how a kid heals?
Are they playing video games?
Are they a headache kid to begin with?
Are they getting good sleep at night?
Are they just playing in bed?
I mean, there's so many aspects to it.
And so right now, we've got a few concussions that I'm dealing with.
And I think I've given the same overview of how a concussion process works at least six times.
And it's
each parent has a very different question and how do you know it's a concussion and how come this is taking so long and what how come this other kids on step two and my kids on step one you know so there's just a lot lot to it
so as with most health issues early reporting and treatment are keys right
absolutely and that is one one
part that I found in the research.
As an example, if an athlete sustains an injury and they're removed from play immediately, their average return time to that activity is about 17 days.
If they stay in for 15 minutes or less, it goes up to 30 days.
And if they stay in for 15 minutes or more, it can go up to almost 90 days to return.
the sooner that the injury is recognized and they're removed, the better the outcome.
Well, Chris, thank you very much for sharing information about your project and good luck on your presentation in November.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All I have to do is get through the concussion season, which is nine
months.
And that's just starting.
So, all right.
Yeah.
Thanks again, Chris.
All right.
Thanks, Bob.
This is Chris Schachtschneider, who is the athletic training lead for Ripon Community Hospital.
Joining us at this time, we have Chris Schachtschneider, who is the athletic training lead for Rippin Community Hospital.
Chris recently completed an evidence-based practice fellowship project through SSM Health focused on concussion education in high school athletes.
Good morning.
Good morning.
That was just a summary.
Now we've got to expand on it.
I suppose.
All right.
So there's been a big discussion.
about concussions, especially when it comes to high school and college sports and, well, pro sports too.
But why do concussions often go unreported?
I think there's several factors to that.
I think we still have kind of an older school thought process of, well, while I was in school, I got hit and I was fine.
I think that's part of it.
I think kids I know kids don't want to report it because they Assume that that is going to keep them from playing which it does in the short term And so they they try to hide their symptoms and and power through And then I think there's also a part where the kids just don't either a understand the symptoms that they're feeling and that it is not normal or the severity
um, and what, uh, issues might arise from ignoring those symptoms.
So you're talking 40 to 50% of concussions go unreported?
Uh, yeah, that's correct.
Uh, I think, um, partly again, it's, it's kids not necessarily recognizing that they, they have something, you know, they, um, I've been at games where all of a sudden a parent comes out of the crowd and their ibuprofen and Tylenol getting thrown around.
And then you never see anything after that.
So yeah, I think there's definitely some stuff that goes on in the sidelines and the games that either they don't recognize or they ignore.
OK, so what are the dangers of not taking it seriously?
Well, just from the bare minimum, it's going to
increase the amount of time it takes to return to a baseline.
So, you know, you have an injury in the head.
There's chemical reactions that occur and synapses that don't quite connect right.
And when that happens, you can get, you know, dizzy, your eyes kind of somewhat almost disconnect from your brain so they don't necessarily, not physically, but they don't quite work the way that the brain is expected them to.
And all of those things just lead to those symptoms lasting longer.
And so when that happens, it's harder for kids to take tests.
They forget what the math problem was.
They forget what classroom they're in, you know, those types of things.
And then on the worst case scenario, because there's a healing going on in the brain, a secondary hit, especially in this age group, anyone under the age of 25 where the brain is still developing, there is
an incident of sudden impact secondary impact syndrome where It can lead to a coma or death, you know, we don't like to cheer you know harp on that with kids because we don't want them to be You know afraid to do anything, but it is something that you know the main reason why all these concussion protocols have been created
All right your project
You worked with two local high schools on educational intervention.
Can you tell us about that?
Sure, what I wanted to do is, you know, I know that kids don't like to report.
And so what I was trying to find is any sort of evidence-based study that showed an intervention that might actually lead to them reporting it.
So in the past, you would
you go to school, you get a handout that said this is what a concussion is, then you sign the sheet and you walk away.
Obviously, those aren't going to get read, and they don't really show any benefits as far as likelihood to report.
And so there were a few that I found throughout the research.
And I tried to find one that was effective, but also practical.
One that was effective was to do a pre-game huddle with the team and talk about concussions.
And that's not necessarily practical because that requires somebody to be at every game at every time.
And so the one that I settled on was there was a yet of Georgia where they take an athlete basically through a scenario and then there's a decision point.
And so like this is the injury.
Okay, now you have a decision to make do you tell somebody do you don't tell someone and here's what happens if you don't do here's what happens if you don't and so in showing going through that presentation to 169 kids throughout two high schools I showed a 22% like greater likelihood for kids to share their symptoms and concussion injury with
either an athletic trainer, a parent, or a coach.
Can you name the two schools or am I pushing it too
much?
Oh, no.
Nope.
It was ripping the market in.
Okay.
So those are the two
schools that I primarily cover, but, um, uh, and so it was easy to, to get in front of those groups.
All right.
So, um, the first thing that would come to mind is football, but you can get concussions in hockey, soccer,
Baseball, I suppose.
Basketball.
We've had
cross country and had them in every sport.
Right.
So we're not just focusing on one sport here, but the entire spectrum.
Correct.
Yep.
Okay.
So what were the key findings of your project?
Because I understand you're actually going to do a presentation on this for John Hopkins conference in November.
Yeah, that's got that par point up now and I'm a little afraid of it, actually.
The point of the presentation really is to just talk through the process.
So you look at what was your, what did you want to pick?
What's your statement, your PICO statement?
And then you look at what are you trying to accomplish?
How did you find the research?
And what did you come up with for an intervention and how did it turn out?
And so, as like I said, we took those students and we took them through that course and we showed an improvement in likelihood to report.
And since then, I guess what I've learned from that project is that getting in front of parents and athletes is the ideal scenario.
But that's not
really always applicable.
And so I tried to make it into a virtual course and did not have the same sort of results.
So now I've taken a different approach and shortened it up.
And no, so it was a 17-minute presentation.
Now it's down to a five.
And I have
you know, sending that out to coaches so that they are watching it with their team.
But when I can get in front of those groups and when our other athletic trainers can get in front of their schools, we really try to do that.
Okay.
So you talk with the athletes, you've done video presentation for coaches.
What about the parents?
Hi, parents are welcome to watch it as well.
And when we did have our, when I did do this intervention at the two schools,
Most of the meetings did include the parents as well.
And so they didn't have to answer the survey questions.
They just watched along, but I think it's important.
And the concussion process is very complicated.
It is not like an ankle sprain where, okay, they're limping, now they're not limping, okay, now we run, now we're good to go.
There's so many different
variables that can play into how a kid heals?
Are they playing video games?
Are they a headache kid to begin with?
Are they getting good sleep at night?
Are they just playing in bed?
I mean, there's so many aspects to it.
And so right now, we've got a few concussions that I'm dealing with.
And I think I've given the same overview of how a concussion process works at least six times.
And it's
each parent has a very different question and how do you know it's a concussion and how come this is taking so long and what how come this other kids on step two and my kids on step one you know so there's just a lot lot to it
so as with most health issues early reporting and treatment are keys right
absolutely and that is one one
part that I found in the research.
As an example, if an athlete sustains an injury and they're removed from play immediately, their average return time to that activity is about 17 days.
If they stay in for 15 minutes or less, it goes up to 30 days.
And if they stay in for 15 minutes or more, it can go up to almost 90 days to return.
the sooner that the injury is recognized and they're removed, the better the outcome.
Well, Chris, thank you very much for sharing information about your project and good luck on your presentation in November.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All I have to do is get through the concussion season, which is nine
months.
And that's just starting.
So, all right.
Yeah.
Thanks again, Chris.
All right.
Thanks, Bob.
This is Chris Schachtschneider, who is the athletic training lead for Ripon Community Hospital.