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GCCC President To Meet With Deceased Football Player's Mother

THE BRADFORTH FAMILY
Braeden Bradforth in is Neptune High School football jersey.

A New Jersey congressman says Garden City Community College officials have agreed to meet about the death of 19-year-old Braeden Bradforth, who died of exertional heat stroke after a grueling work out last August. 

Republican Congressman Chris Smith says GCCC President Ryan Ruda has said he will meet with Bradforth’s mother, Joanne Atkins-Ingram.

Smith also intends to bring attention to the topic of exertional heat stroke in Washington.

“The first is to ask the Trump Administration to convene a commission that would look at this exertion heat stroke issue,” Smith said.

He said he will also offer legislation creating such a commission. 

Some 30 college football players have died following practices since 2000. 

There are protocols in place to prevent such deaths and Smith said he wants to make sure all coaches follow them. 

Ruda is expected to meet with Atkins-Ingram on April 26.
 

Sam grew up in Overland Park and was educated at the University of Kansas. After working in Philadelphia where he covered organized crime, politics and political corruption he moved on to TV news management jobs in Minneapolis and St. Louis. Sam came home in 2013 and covered health care and education at KCPT. He came to work at KCUR in 2014. Sam has a national news and documentary Emmy for an investigation into the federal Bureau of Prisons and how it puts unescorted inmates on Grayhound and Trailways buses to move them to different prisons. Sam has one son and is pretty good in the kitchen.