Katherine “Price” Snedaker is striving to be an agent of change in concussion education for youth sports thru public speaking, consulting, and social media.

• Mother of son with history of multiple concussions
• Personal history of concussions
• Concussion social worker in top concussion clinic
• Founder of organization to create change in attitudes, training and response to youth sport concussions in practices and games
• Founder of support groups to provide innovative ways for teens with concussions to connect with other “healed” teens

Katherine, an educator and expert in the mental health aspects of concussions, confirmed the site’s value when she presented in DC, on Feb. 25, 2013, to the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council Committee on Sports-Related Concussion. As she was waiting to present on the effects of sports concussions on young athletes and their families, she noticed that almost every presentation had some small section about differences in female concussion including those from the US Army and ATC of West Point. Female concussions kept coming up throughout the event as side comments from presenters who announced these female differences should be studied in more detail in the future. The DC experience combined with tweets and email coming in from female athletes, who had suffered concussions, encouraged her to continue working on the site.

This is the third website Katherine has launched in the last five years. She launched SportsCapp.com to deal with the loopholes in the 2009 Connecticut Concussion Law. Sports CAPP.com was designed to help recreational teams, town leagues and private schools build concussion awareness into their programs for players, coaches and parents.  She designed this website around her concern with middle school aged athletes who are not covered by CT Concussion Law since they play in private or town leagues rather than in public middle schools where they would be protect by the law.  She has been work with CT and NY lacrosse leagues for several years and hopes to bring concussion awareness to teams from other sports across the state.  In 2010, Katherine first founded of Team Concussion, a social media/web based support group for teenagers who were isolated at home with concussions.

Katherine has her Masters in Social Work and has worked as a school social worker. In addition to being a lifelong athlete, she has over ten years experience coaching boys lacrosse and co-ed soccer with children aged 5 to 15.  She has vast experience with concussions herself as an athlete, a professional, a coach, CONNy league advisor and a parent of three active sons.

To help with research, Katherine has agreed to donate her brain to the study of CTE after she dies and encourages all adult athletes with concussion histories to consider this option. Please contact her if you would like more information.

 

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• A Mind Game My meetings with the NFL
• Sports CAPP speaker on ESPN Sports CAPP speaker on ESPN, August 2012, video Outside the Lines Show
• The NFL invite me to a Meeting August 2012
• Mom fights Law Loophole about me, June 2012
• Concussion Awareness Night about the concussion event I created, June 2012
• A Concussion Story about one of Sports CAPP’s youth speakers, Chris Coyne, June 2012

Blogs which have published SportsCAPP articles

• Stop Concussions Com http://www.stopconcussions.com/2012/06/katherine-snedaker-parent-advocate-sportscapp-com
• The Concussion Blog http://theconcussionblog.com/2012/06/25/6239/

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