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Remembering Korey Stringer
Stringer leaves legacy of awareness
July 31, 2011
By VIRGINIA SHANK - reporter (vshank@tribtoday.com) , Tribune Chronicle | TribToday.com

WARREN - Family, friends, fans and acquaintances of Korey Stringer typically agree that the famed football player loved Warren and the people who live here.

Born in Warren on May 8, 1974, Stringer was a hometown hero. He helped Warren G. Harding High School win the Division I state football title in 1990 before earning All-American honors at The Ohio State University and eventually sailing all the way to the Pro Bowl in the National Football League.

Although football took him from the area, family members insisted the beloved 6-foot-4, 355-pound offensive lineman, known as the "gentle giant," never fully left behind the small city he called home.

"He loved the people here," Kevin Stringer, Korey's older brother, said last week. "This is where he grew up, where he went to school and lived. This was home."

The Minnesota Vikings picked him in the first round of the 1995 NFL draft. He was a standout on the offensive line, earning Pro Bowl honors in what turned out to be his final season.

Ten years ago this week, Aug. 1, 2001, Stringer died from complications brought on by heat stroke during football practice at the Vikings training camp in Mankato, Minn. He was 27 and the first professional football player to die from the illness.

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Stringer?s death a loss, lesson
Institute aims to educate on heatstroke
August 1, 2011
By VIRGINIA SHANK - Staff reporter (vshank@tribtoday.com) , Tribune Chronicle | TribToday.com

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Minnesota Vikings offensive lineman Korey Stringer is shown on the first day of Vikings training camp in 2000 in Mankato, Minn. Stringer, of Warren, died a year later of complications from heatstroke.
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WARREN - Kevin Stringer said recognizing that his younger brother Korey did not die in vain has brought comfort to the entire Stringer family - himself included.

Kevin Stringer, president of the Warren City Schools Board of Education, said he realizes his brother's death has netted a heightened awareness of sudden death in sport and an increased knowledge of how to prevent it - two significant steps toward the bigger purpose in Korey's life.

"My brother's death was a loss," he remarked. "As hard as it was to lose him, knowing what has taken place since his death, that doesn't make it any easier, but if anything can help with the coping process, understanding God had a bigger purpose and accepting that has helped us accept my brother's death a little easier. ... Korey's life, and his death, were significant."

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Korey Stringer's death. In August 2001, Stringer, a Minnesota Vikings offensive lineman, died from complications resulting from an exertional heatstroke he suffered during football practice. At 27, he was the first professional football player to die from the illness.

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Ten years later, Korey Stringer's sudden death continues to be felt by his family and the Vikings
By Brian Murphy
brianmurphy@pioneerpress.com
Updated: 07/31/2011

Kelci Stringer has learned to accept what happened to her husband when he died of heatstroke during Vikings training camp 10 years ago today, and she is working hard to prevent a similar tragedy.

Korey Stringer's NFL career lasted six seasons and concluded with a Pro Bowl selection in 2000. His spirit lives in his 13-year-old son, Kodie, an eighth-grader in Atlanta who plays right tackle - the same position his father did.

His legacy as a 27-year-old athlete stricken in his prime endures at the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut, where researchers study the causes of heatstroke and sudden death.

The Vikings will pay tribute to Stringer today with a moment of silence before their initial 3 p.m. training camp practice at Minnesota State University in Mankato. His No. 77 will be painted on fields throughout camp. His locker at Winter Park remains a shrine to the fallen offensive lineman.

"With Korey's passing, we lost a valuable man, friend, father, husband and person," said Kevin Warren, the Vikings' vice president of legal affairs and chief administrator. "With the anniversary, we're just trying in our own way to remember Korey as a member of the Vikings family."

Stringer suffered heatstroke during practice on July 31, 2001. He was taken to a Mankato hospital and later died in the early morning hours of Aug. 1. His core body temperature was 108.8 degrees.

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DeLand column: Stringer's tragic legacy lives on
Jul. 30, 2011

It?s supposed to be hot and humid today in Mankato, with the temperature around 90 and a heat index pushing triple digits.

That?s pretty much what it was like exactly 10 years ago today, in exactly the same place, when exactly everything changed ? for football players everywhere, for the Minnesota Vikings, and especially for Korey Stringer.

On July 31, 2001, Stringer ? the Vikings? 335-pound All-Pro offensive tackle ? collapsed due to heat stroke after a full-pads, full-contact practice on a day when the heat index in Mankato was nearly 110 degrees.

He was unconscious and had a body temperature of 108 when he arrived at the hospital, and he died early the next morning.

It was the most high-profile heat-related fatality in NFL history. It also changed the course of things for the Vikings in particular, and for football in general.

?It definitely was an awakening,? said St. Cloud State head athletic trainer Julie Alexander, ?more for the public and administrators than for working athletic trainers. We always knew of the issue.

?And, unfortunately, heat-related deaths definitely happen every fall.?

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Stringer remembered a decade after his death
Article by: JUDD ZULGAD and MARK CRAIG , Star Tribune staff writers
Updated: August 2, 2011

MANKATO - As the Vikings prepared for their first practice of training camp Monday, coach Leslie Frazier gathered his players at midfield, where they had a moment of silence to remember Korey Stringer.

It was 10 years ago Monday that Stringer, the Vikings right tackle, died as a result of complications from heat stroke that he suffered during a practice. Earlier in the day, tight end Jim Kleinsasser had spoken to teammates about Stringer. Kleinsasser, a second-round pick in 1999, is the last remaining Vikings player who was a teammate of Stringer's.

"It's good to talk to the guys who didn't know him and tell them what he was like as a player, as a person," Kleinsasser said. "I sat down with [Steve Hutchinson] last night and was telling him stories. Korey would have loved having him play on the line with him.

"We have Korey's locker [behind glass] back at Winter Park. So guys see that as well. Maybe me talking to them will make it mean a little more when they walk past it."

Frazier was an assistant with the Eagles when Stringer died, but he certainly was impacted by what happened.

"It's a hard day for everybody leading up to this day," Frazier said. "... Everyone misses him. I wish he could come out and watch us practice today, but in a way I feel like he was there today."

The Vikings painted Stringer's No. 77 on a practice field at Minnesota State Mankato.
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Vikings remember Korey Stringer
Posted: Aug 02, 2011
By Guy Limbeck
The Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN


MANKATO ? Jim Kleinsasser is the last remaining Minnesota Vikings player who was a teammate of Korey Stringer. So it was only right that Kleinsasser was asked to say a few words about Stringer on Monday.

The Vikings officially opened training camp on Monday. It also marked the 10th anniversary of the day that Stringer died due to heat stroke he suffered while in training camp with the Vikings.

"I loved that guy," Kleinsasser said. "His comedy, just his humor, he brought you up in the middle of training camp. He was just a great guy. A big guy, but just a big teddy bear. I don't think there's a better teammate you could have."

Stringer's death rocked the Vikings a decade ago as the team struggled to recover after the loss of a friend and teammate.

"Losing a guy playing the game of football, that's something that should never happen," Kleinsasser said. "Korey was such a lovable guy; there wasn't a guy on the team who didn't like him."

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