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A coroner’s inquest into the death high school rugby player Rowan Stringer will begin May 19.
Stringer, 17, was captain of the girl’s rugby team at John McCrae Secondary School in Barrhaven. She was knocked unconscious by a hit to her head during a game on May 8, 2013, and died later at hospital.
The inquest, announced earlier this year by Ontario’s chief coroner, is expected to last two weeks and will hear from 13 witnesses. It will examine the circumstances of Stringer’s death and cover “areas of head injury recognition in high school field sports, with a view to strategy, assessment and avoidance of serious consequences,” the office of the regional supervising coroner said in a release.
Jurors can make recommendations that they think can prevent similar deaths. The presiding coroner is Dr. Louise McNaughton Filion.
Researchers concluded that Stringer died from a deadly condition called second-impact syndrome, which can strike teenagers or young adults who experience more than one concussion in rapid succession. Stringer’s family agreed to allow part of their daughter’s brain tissue to be sent to a bank at the Boston University Centre for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy. The centre has gained international attention for its study of the brains of professional athletes.
In February, the family told the Citizen they support the decision to hold an inquest, although one was not mandatory by law.
“It is going to be hard,” said her father, Gordon Stringer. “There is going to be stuff we are going to hear that we don’t know about.”
The inquest begins Tuesday, May 13, in the Keefer Room at Ottawa City Hall.
bcrawford@ottawacitizen.com
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Stringer, 17, was captain of the girl’s rugby team at John McCrae Secondary School in Barrhaven. She was knocked unconscious by a hit to her head during a game on May 8, 2013, and died later at hospital.
The inquest, announced earlier this year by Ontario’s chief coroner, is expected to last two weeks and will hear from 13 witnesses. It will examine the circumstances of Stringer’s death and cover “areas of head injury recognition in high school field sports, with a view to strategy, assessment and avoidance of serious consequences,” the office of the regional supervising coroner said in a release.
Jurors can make recommendations that they think can prevent similar deaths. The presiding coroner is Dr. Louise McNaughton Filion.
Researchers concluded that Stringer died from a deadly condition called second-impact syndrome, which can strike teenagers or young adults who experience more than one concussion in rapid succession. Stringer’s family agreed to allow part of their daughter’s brain tissue to be sent to a bank at the Boston University Centre for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy. The centre has gained international attention for its study of the brains of professional athletes.
In February, the family told the Citizen they support the decision to hold an inquest, although one was not mandatory by law.
“It is going to be hard,” said her father, Gordon Stringer. “There is going to be stuff we are going to hear that we don’t know about.”
The inquest begins Tuesday, May 13, in the Keefer Room at Ottawa City Hall.
bcrawford@ottawacitizen.com
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