NMFL Renews Partnership with Sports Care Connect, State Bank
March 12, 2013
The NMFL is proud to announce that it has officially renewed its partnership with Sports Care Connect (SCC) and State Bank in hopes of helping youth athletes play safely. Last season, the NMFL, SCC and State Bank brought a sense of relief to parents, coaches and athletes by helping to protect each athlete in the league from the effects of concussions. The generosity of State Bank allowed for the NMFL to utilize the services of SCC, which through its partners offered concussion insurance to each football player in the NMFL.
In addition to the concussion insurance this year, each NMFL football player will also receive a baseline test that will help physicians and neuropsychologists better determine whether or not a player has experienced a concussion. The baseline test, which measures cognitive (brain) function, is a key component in the fight against concussions.
Davis Butler, President of SCC said, “With Sports Care Connect, big hits in football don’t have to end in broken dreams.”
SCC, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was founded by the Sports Concussion Institute, an organization dedicated solely to the prevention and state-of-the-art treatment of sport-induced concussions for the past seven years, and Encompass International, an organization of former Olympic and sport marketers with a long history of generating revenue for the benefit of sports worldwide. With a focus on young athletes, Sports Care Connect provides both funding and leadership in the battle against sport-induced concussions: the single largest health-related concern in athletics.
SCC serves to build healthier communities, with a particular emphasis on the underserved, by promoting awareness, education and prevention of sports related concussions in young athletes and significantly improving the care and support to young athletes and their families who have experienced a concussion.
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Sports Care Connect Receives Recognition from GA House of Representatives
The Resolution recognizes Sports Care Connect and State Bank and Trust for their generous financial support in providing concussion insurance for every NMFL participant last year with up to $25,000 of coverage.
The NMFL was recognized as the first league in Georgia to offer such a benefit to its players and the first to take such a significant step toward addressing the issue of sport induced concussions in Georgia
Listed below is a link to the full text of the resolution. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/133793.pdf
Pictured, from Left to right: Mark Woodall, Executive Board Member, North Metro Football League, State Representative Demetrius Douglas, State Representative Chuck Martin, J. Martin Small, Senior VP of State Bank and Trust, Ralph Clinton, President of North Metro Football league, Davis Butler, President, Sports CARE Connect, and Phil McCarn, Executive Vice President, Sports CAREConnect.
Our Mission:
Building healthier communities, with a particular emphasis on the underserved, by promoting awareness, education and prevention of sports related concussions in young athletes and significantly improving the care and support to young athletes and their families who have experienced a concussion.
“With Sports Care Connect, big hits in football, soccer, hockey, cheerleading and other youth sports do not have to end in broken dreams.”
- Davis Butler, President
Sports Care Connect
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