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The mission of the Korey Stringer Institute is to provide research, education, advocacy and consultation to maximize performance, optimize safety and prevent sudden death for the athlete, warfighter, and laborer.

🚨 A Major Milestone in Athlete Safety 🚨  Beginning this August, the Texas UIL will require schools to use WBGT-based act...
06/18/2026

🚨 A Major Milestone in Athlete Safety 🚨 
 
Beginning this August, the Texas UIL will require schools to use WBGT-based activity modification guidelines to help inform decisions during hot environmental conditions. 
 
Why does that matter? 
 
WBGT goes beyond temperature alone, accounting for factors like humidity, radiant heat, and air movement to provide a more complete picture of environmental heat stress. 
 
And when decisions are informed by better data, athletes are safer. 
 
📈 In 2018, only 12% of U.S. high school athletes participated in states with statewide WBGT requirements. 
📈 Just recently, that number had grown to approximately 30%. 
📈 Today, it has reached 53%. 
 
This milestone reflects years of research, advocacy, and collaboration from athletic trainers, physicians, administrators, policymakers, and sports medicine organizations committed to protecting young athletes. 
 
👏 Congratulations to the Texas UIL and everyone who helped make this advancement possible. 
 
Now let’s keep the momentum going. Every athlete deserves access to evidence-based heat safety practices—regardless of where they live.

🎬 That’s a wrap!After five days of filming, countless hours of collaboration, and plenty of time spent working through t...
06/17/2026

🎬 That’s a wrap!

After five days of filming, countless hours of collaboration, and plenty of time spent working through the summer heat, we’ve officially wrapped production on a series of sport catastrophic injury and illness scenarios to enhance the future of coaching education.

This project would not have been possible without the incredible efforts of our KSI team, the talented crew from Media 1 Productions, and the many volunteers who gave their time and energy to help bring these scenarios to life. While not everyone who contributed is pictured here, this photo represents a much larger group of individuals who helped make this week a success.

We’re grateful for the teamwork, professionalism, and commitment shown by everyone involved.

Stay tuned—we can’t wait to share more in the months ahead.

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Last week in Idaho, we hosted the final Team Up for Sports Safety meeting, marking a milestone nearly a decade in the ma...
06/09/2026

Last week in Idaho, we hosted the final Team Up for Sports Safety meeting, marking a milestone nearly a decade in the making: every state in the nation visited, plus Washington, DC.

What began in 2017 as Collaborative Solutions for Sports Safety grew into Team Up for Sports Safety thanks to the support of the NATA and NFL. Together, we set out with a simple goal: bring people together to make sport safer for high school student-athletes.

Along the way, we traveled countless miles, held meetings across the country, adapted during a global pandemic, and gathered with athletic trainers, physicians, coaches, administrators, policymakers, researchers, and advocates who all believed that athlete safety matters.

Most importantly, we listened.

We listened to experts who shared their knowledge.
We listened to leaders who championed change.
We listened to families who transformed unimaginable loss into advocacy, courage, and hope.

To every state leader who helped organize a meeting, every stakeholder who joined us, and every member of the KSI team who packed a suitcase, boarded a plane, and dedicated themselves to this mission—thank you.

This milestone is not measured by the places we've been, but by the relationships we've built and the conversations we've started.

The map is complete.

The mission is not.

Because adoption is only the beginning. Together, we will continue working toward a future where evidence-based sports safety policies are not only adopted, but ultimately implemented to protect every athlete, in every community.

Thank you for being part of this journey.

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NFL

Our occupational team was well represented at Connect, an association for scientists and professionals committed to pre...
06/04/2026

Our occupational team was well represented at Connect, an association for scientists and professionals committed to preserving and ensuring occupational and environmental health and safety in the workplace and community 🦺🥽 KSI staff were awarded recognition for their leadership on the Thermal Stress Working group 🔥 .gbrew (chair), Ceci Kaufman (vice chair), Dr. Morrissey-Basler (past chair) 🔥 and Ceci presented on hydration status and cognition with 💧📊

To top it off, the conference had puppies!!! Sorry Jonathan, please don’t be jealous 🐾

Heat stress in the workplace is more complicated than many people realize.    Workers are often exposed to:  ☀️ High phy...
06/01/2026

Heat stress in the workplace is more complicated than many people realize.  
  
Workers are often exposed to:  
☀️ High physical workloads  
⏱️ Long consecutive shifts  
🦺 Insulating protective equipment  
👷 Aging and medically diverse populations  
💵 Economic pressures that may discourage breaks or hydration  
  
Combined with rising environmental temperatures, these factors can significantly increase the risk of heat-related illness, injury, and productivity loss.  
  
The data is difficult to ignore:  
• More than 13 million U.S. workers are exposed to extreme heat during the summer  
• Occupational injury risk rises as temperatures increase  
• Heat-related productivity losses are projected to reach trillions globally by 2030  
• Research has suggested a “protective effect” of state-level heat regulations  
  
Heat safety isn’t just about comfort—it’s about protecting workers, maintaining productivity, and building safer workplaces.  
  
This is Post 2 in our series breaking down newly published best practice recommendations for occupational heat stress management developed in collaboration with &

KSI UConn and UNF staff, students, alumni & spent last week sharing data at the annual meeting in Salt Lake City! ✨ Sp...
05/31/2026

KSI UConn and UNF staff, students, alumni & spent last week sharing data at the annual meeting in Salt Lake City!
✨ Special CONGRATS to our COO .stearnsruns and KSI and UConn alumni Yasuki S., Gabe G., and Jake E. for being awarded Fellow! ✨

Heat stress doesn’t end when Heat Safety Awareness Week does.  As temperatures continue to rise, occupational heat stres...
05/22/2026

Heat stress doesn’t end when Heat Safety Awareness Week does. 
 
As temperatures continue to rise, occupational heat stress remains a growing challenge across industries—impacting worker health, safety, and productivity. Yet many workplaces lack consistent, evidence-based heat safety protocols and trained medical oversight. 
 
Athletic trainers are uniquely positioned to help fill that gap. 
 
From prevention and emergency response to recovery and return-to-work considerations, athletic trainers bring specialized expertise that can help employers better protect their workforce in real-world environments. 
 
In collaboration with the and , the Korey Stringer Institute contributed to newly published best practice recommendations focused on occupational heat stress management and the role of the athletic trainer in worker safety. 
 
This post is the start of a new series where we’ll break these recommendations down into practical, easy-to-understand takeaways: 
 
• Why heat safety matters 
• The athletic trainer’s role in prevention 
• Recognition and treatment strategies 
• Return-to-work considerations 
• What this means for employers 
 
Because heat safety awareness should extend far beyond just one week.

The Perry Weather Heat Lab at UNF’s KSI will serve as a hub for thermoregulation research and human performance testing ...
05/21/2026

The Perry Weather Heat Lab at UNF’s KSI will serve as a hub for thermoregulation research and human performance testing 🌡️

From athletes to occupational workers to military personnel (any everyone in between!), we are excited to support populations exposed to heat stress here in Jacksonville and beyond! DUUUVAL!

The lab will also offer basic fitness and wellness testing available to the general population. Using tools ranging from metabolic and body composition testing to heat tolerance testing protocols, Dr. Szymanski and .gbrew aim to better understand human performance, hydration, recovery, safety, and resilience in challenging environments.

We’re grateful for the opportunity to grow this work alongside UNF students, collaborators, and community partners. Thanks to for supporting this space! 🔥

Founded by Kelci Stringer to honor Korey’s legacy, KSI has always focused on bringing science into practice. As of Monda...
05/20/2026

Founded by Kelci Stringer to honor Korey’s legacy, KSI has always focused on bringing science into practice. As of Monday, our roots officially spread down the east coast. 🦪🌊🌴

We are incredibly grateful to everyone who helped make this vision a reality and to all who joined us to celebrate the beginning of this next chapter for KSI at UNF.

Jacksonville, we’re proud to call you home. DUUUVAL!

Highlights from an unforgettable milestone yesterday, celebrating the grand opening of our first satellite location at t...
05/19/2026

Highlights from an unforgettable milestone yesterday, celebrating the grand opening of our first satellite location at the University of North Florida! 🔥🌴

The Perry Weather Heat Lab at UNF’s KSI was built with a shared mission: advancing heat safety research, education, and implementation, founded in memory of Korey Stringer, who died from exertional heat stroke 25 years ago this summer.

Through this work, we remain committed to turning tragedy into action and improving health and safety for athletes, workers, military personnel, and other physically active populations.

The next chapter of KSI starts here.

If you’re in the Jacksonville area, come say hi!

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2095 Hillside Road U-1110
Storrs, CT
06269

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 4pm
Tuesday 8am - 4pm
Wednesday 8am - 4pm
Thursday 8am - 4pm
Friday 8am - 4pm

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+18604860265

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