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12 football players hospitalized with exertional condition
Twelve University of Iowa football student-athletes are recovering after being admitted to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Monday evening.
Twelve University of Iowa football players are recovering after being admitted to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on Monday evening with exertional rhabdomyolysis, the Gazette learned Tuesday evening.
This condition is an acute breakdown of muscle fibers resulting in the release of muscle fiber contents (myoglobin) into the bloodstream. In serious cases, it could affect the kidney’s ability to clear the toxins and has potential for permanent kidney failure.
All Iowa players admitted are doing fine, according to a source close to the situation. University of Iowa sports information also had a release Tuesday that stated the players were “safe and stable condition.”
The exact details of the workout that might have led to this are unclear. Iowa players did recently participate in lower-body drills that included a series of 100 squats followed by sled work.
It’s a drill the Iowa program has used in the past, according to sources. It’s a fast-paced workout that a former player described as the “worst experience in your life.”
NCAA rules allow winter workouts for football and they are industry standard.
At around 6:45 Tuesday evening, UI sports information sent this, “The Hawkeye football players admitted to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics were all participating in NCAA allowable winter workouts. The symptoms, for which the student-athletes are being treated, are likely related to those workouts.”
A UI official cited HIPPA privacy rules when asked Tuesday night about the identities of the hospitalized athletes.
“We’re at the point now where HIPPA laws don’t allow us to go any further,” UI associate athletics director Rick Klatt told The Gazette. “We can’t identify student-athletes. We really can’t get into much more specifics about what their illness is. They are protected by those privacy laws.”
UI sports information sent a release Tuesday afternoon that stated a UI staff physician and football team physician said the student-athletes were responding well to treatment.
“The student-athletes were admitted throughout the course of Monday evening,” the UIHC staff physician said in the statement. “All of the individuals are responding well to treatment as of Tuesday morning. All are in safe and stable condition. At this time we are not sure when any of the individuals will be discharged. Hospital discharge will be on a case by case basis.”
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz is out on the road recruiting. Iowa is in the final stages of recruiting for the 2011 class. The Hawkeyes have 20 commitments. The national signing period begins Feb. 2.
Iowa athletics director Gary Barta said Ferentz “is aware of the situation and is being kept abreast of the progress being made.”
“Our No. 1 concern is the safety of our student-athletes, so we are pleased with the positive feedback,” Barta said in the release. ”Our next step is to find out what happened so we can avoid this happening in the future.”
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SO–WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE ATHLETES???? IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO GIVE ANY INFO—WHY PRINT A STORY. STUPID!!!!!
Check the first 2 paragraphs…
Did you not read the article. I believe it say what is wrong with them in the first paragraph
This is the first I’ve seen of this story on here so maybe Sissy’s comment was posted before the story was updated. Who knows.
Yes. That’s what we typically do. Post whatever news we can and then start reporting. I think that’s what this story called for.
Thanks for the clarification Marc. The first I even heard of the story was on KCRG at 6.
I’m just waiting for all the humorous posts about detoxing and STDs
As Paul Harvey says, what is the rest of the story?
12 at once? Sounds more like a drug reaction to me. Several drugs can cause that.
I’m appalled that these students were run through weight lifting training to the point where 12 student athletes were put into a potentially life-threatening situation as their muscles began to break down and their urine was brown. This can result in kidney damage and worse. The University of Iowa Athletic Dept. needs to give us more than “the health and safety of our athletes is our paramount concern,” which is obviously untrue.
Somebody needs to lose their job over this.
I want answers and follow-up, not platitudinous lies.
Maria,
Once again, you go spouting off your mouth without knowing WHAT you’re talking about.
First off..this was hardly a “life threatening situation” What this is a case of is overexertion plain and simple. The UI football staff recognized the issue and took immediate steps to treat the affected individuals. No one’s life was in danger.
Of course, you’re going to throw out all sorts of accusations, which is what you always do…you’re always outraged over something.
That’s rich……….let’s see how your logic train works Maria. 12 out of 100 plus over exerted themselves and had to go to the hospital. Heck you could just as easily say 12 out of 100 were in terrible shape and hadn’t kept up their en do the bargain to maintain their “conditioning” like the rest of the team obviously had….
See Maria we can all jump to conclusions, it’s the sign of a weak and easily brain washed mind!
Chad
Maria Houser Conzemius -what? give me a break. Iowa has done this for years, and no one was hurt. I am guessing the kids were either using a new Supplements or had some kind of illness that left them dehydrated. stop being over dramatic. the kids are fine which is the most important thing.
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Great well soon guys! Go Hawks
Pretty poor timing to mass report something like this. Its now on the front page of ESPN. We look like complete $hit to the national media between DJK, Adam Robinson, and now this, a story that is probably blown out of proportion. How does this look to the new prospective recruits. I don’t think there is a need that this even made it to national news.
Easy there buddy. I think you’re missing the forest for the trees here. 12 guys worked too hard. Whether they were made to do so, or were being overly-competitive and did this to themselves, we don’t know, and we never will know.
As far as Iowa looking like crap in front of the entire country, highly unlikely anyone other than Iowa fans even remember this by the end of the week. Recruits aren’t going to de-commit because of something like this.
In other words: calm down.
Most likely not but if you’ve seen ESPN or other sites the past 2 months its been all poor press for Iowa aside from a bowl win. Drugs, rape, players hospitalized. In the latter event, you’re right no one may notice however why then is it even reported?
This is a serious condition… and yes, even doing the same drills which have been done for years, can now be too much… our kids are stronger/faster than ever before. It used to be that ‘rapido’ only was seen by people doing crazy stunts like doing 5000 situps or running up & down the empire state building. My 19 year old son held the US ’3 minute speed jump rope’ speed record. Look up ‘Jayson Fisher’ on youtube and you’ll see him. While training, to beat his own record, he developed rapido and was hospitalized for several days.. his urine was the color of coffee … since that happened 1+ yr ago, he has had several attacks because his muscles have learned to shut down when he over does it.. (he’s also a AAA hockey player)… basically his ‘thermostat is forever broken’ and he has to watch how much he pushes his body… both in hydration & mineral replacements… And no he didn’t do any supplments/drugs … until now… After many months of searching on how to prevent rapido but still playing hockey, we finally found a mountain biker expert who was very familiar with the syndrome, Bikers call this ‘bonking’… PLEASE don’t ignore this… it is a real crisis with our athletes especially those who won’t quit on a drill/workout.. our overacheivers.. because they want to be the best… we need to have nutritionists working with our coaches to ensure our athletes can excel both in their sports and stay healthy now & in their future… i pray this is a warning call for all coaches & families… IT’S REAL and NOT DRUG related…