NSSO protects America's athletes
The National Sports Safety Organization (NSSO) was started with one specific goal in mind: to help schools do the best job possible in protecting and preventing student athletes from serious injuries and unnecessary deaths. Sports should be fun, not dangerous, and NSSO is implementing programs to promote safety in all collegiate sports programs.
"We want student athletes and their families to know what they can do to stay safe on the playing field," says George Wheeler, the founder of NSSO. "And we're inviting colleges and universities to work with us to make sports safety a very high priority in their athletic programs."
NSSO is working with leading health and sports safety organizations to establish realistic, cost-effective guidelines for their educational members to follow. NSSO believes that one athlete death or injury is one too many, and one that might have been prevented.
Is your school a sports safety leader?
Find out by reading NSSO's Collegiate Sports Safety Report. NSSO will publish a comprehensive annual report
that includes the safety equipment and procedures currently in use at participating colleges and universities.
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The NSSO Safety Kit
The National Sports Safety Organization has a paramedic on its advisory staff and has done extensive research
into safety kits and what they should contain.
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Fallen Athletes
The NSSO Fallen Athletes Registry provides information about athletes who
have died while participating in sporting events. Each entry describes the fallen athlete and the details of
their death. The registry chronology starts in August on 2001, the month when Rashidi Wheeler, son of NSSO founder
George Wheeler, died while participating in a practice for Northwestern University.
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Why you should become an NSSO member
All NSSO members receive the following package of services and benefits:
Subscription to Sports Safety USA
CPR and first aid training classes
Collegiate Sports Safety Report
Discount certificates & coupons
NSSO's Sports Safety Hotline
Sports Safety Articles
What's new at NSSO
Please click on the following links to view articles and videos that contain newsworthy information about NSSO:
Sports Safety USA First Edition
NSSO International Press Release












