A standing booking is easy to love. Same field, same night, same parking spot, all season long. By the third week nobody looks at the map, and the heat plan you made on opening day is sitting in somebody’s car. The trouble is that the field stays the same while the weather does not. A cool spring evening in week one and a sticky July afternoon in week ten are two very different days on the same grass.<\/p>\n
When a booking runs for a whole season, things change a little at a time. Days get hotter. New players join halfway through and have never heard the plan. The parent who brought the ice every week goes on vacation. The field owner locks a different gate or starts work near the entrance. None of it feels big in the moment, and that is how a team ends up on a hot day with a melted cooler and no one sure who calls 911.<\/p>\n
Look at the forecast a day or two before each session, not only on opening day. When the weather turns hot, add water breaks, move to shade between drills, and talk with the owner about a cooler time slot. Players who missed a few weeks, or who just joined, may not be used to the heat yet, so ease them in. The free acclimatization schedule<\/a> from National Stay Cool Day can help you build up practice time on the first hot weeks.<\/p>\n Look for any player who is confused, stumbling, acting strange, or who suddenly stops and cannot keep going. Familiar routines make it easy to miss a player who is struggling, so keep an eye on everyone, every week. Do not wait for them to ask for help.<\/p>\n Exertional heat stroke is 100% survivable when it is recognized fast and the athlete is cooled on the spot.<\/p>\n Take off whatever gear comes off quickly, but never delay cooling to remove gear. Around 104\u00b0F, the body loses its ability to regulate its own temperature. Cooling on the spot is what brings it back.<\/p>\n The free EAP Builder from National Stay Cool Day<\/a> puts the field address, gate, phone numbers and cooling steps on one page. Print it at the start of the season and update it whenever the gate, the slot or the people change. For setting up the tub and ice each week, see the cooling station checklist<\/a>, and for practicing the response, the heat stroke drill<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A standing booking is easy to love. Same field, same night, same parking spot, all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedayfields.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedayfields.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedayfields.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedayfields.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedayfields.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gamedayfields.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedayfields.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamedayfields.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedayfields.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamedayfields.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Watch for trouble<\/h2>\n
If an athlete goes down<\/h2>\n
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Put it on one page and keep it current<\/h2>\n