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Local Phoenix 3TV News Extra
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Click the above link to see our News
story promoting the April 9th at
Westgate City Center Event - 4/6/11...
"Call for better screenings for young athletes"
MOMster Monday on KPHO Channel 5 in Phoenix
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Click the above link to see our News
story promoting the April 9th at
Westgate City Center Event - 4/4/11...
"MOMster Monday - Sudden Cardiac Arrest"
Sharon in the K-Stater Magazine 032011
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Click the above link to read our story in
K-Stater Magazine - 3/5/11...
"Death of a football player spurs mom to save other student-athletes"
MANHATTAN - Defensive tackle Anthony Bates had completed his workout at K-State's football weight
room
and was driving on Denison Avenue heading home for lunch. He never made it due to a genetic
sudden
cardiac arrest in 2000.
Two years after her son's death, Sharon Bates, Phoenix, Ariz., founded The Anthony Bates Foundation
to help
educate parents and schools and to screen student-athletes and youths
for early signs of heart problems.
She recalled a conversation with head football coach Bill Snyder...
.... click on the link above to read the whole story!
Mom Makes Youth Heart Health Her Mission
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Click the above link to see & read our
story on Fox10 News - 3/4/11...
GLENDALE - A 16-year-old athlete at a Michigan high school has died after suffering a cardiac arrest
from an enlarged heart. It's a sad story -- one that a valley family lived through 10 years ago.
Sharon Bates lost her son, a star athlete, almost the same way. 20-year-old Anthony
Bates played
football and went into cardiac arrest one day. He collapsed and died.
When a Young Life is Lost (click to hear)
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Click the above link to hear our Westgate City
Center PSA for the April 9, 2011...
Our Friends, Tom Leander (voice of the Phoenix Suns), Alexis Santos, Coordinator through
Mended Little Hearts
of Phoenix & Jack Miller Productions), Lynn our producer, and Sharon Bates director, created
the Anthony Bates
Foundation Public Service Announcement (PSA). "When a young life is lost..." This PSA will air throughout
Phoenix media stations for the next month. Published Spring,
2011
Click above picture to view Via Christi Health
Employee Quarterly newletter article...
Friends at Mercy Regional report in the Health Journal - "Mercy supports community
screening of student athletes..." This
article outlines the support over 10 years of Mercy Regional with the Anthony Bates Foundation to screen young athletes
in Manhattan, KS. Published Fall, 2010
Western Athletes Receive Life Saving Donation
(Courtesy Missouri Western State University) On Sunday, September 26th the MWSU Athletic Department, Heartland
Foundation, St. Joe Sports and the Anthony Bates Foundation are partnering to bring the 1st Annual Anthony Bates Foundation
Cardiac Screening to the campus of Missouri Western State University. The screening is available to all Missouri Western Student-Athletes,
middle school and high school athletes in the surrounding areas.
Click below for the rest of the story, and the news video clip
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St. Joe Channel News
Is It Safe for Students to Play Sports Without Heart Exams?
September 18, 2010 (USA Today/WLTX) - Most teenagers think they're invincible, and that goes double for talented teenage
athletes. They're young, immortal, at the top of their game, the envy of their friends....
....But Sharon Bates, a parent who founded the Anthony Bates Foundation after her athlete son, Anthony, died unexpectedly
in 2000 and was found to have had an enlarged heart, disagrees with the arguments against mass screenings...
Click on the link below for the full article
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USA Today Article
Click on the link below for the full article
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Foundation offers free heart screenings...Surprise, AZ
click here to download pdf article file
Click on either of the above links
to view the media story from
the local Surprise paper (yourwestvalley.com) for Willow
Canyon High School FREE Cardiac Screening
event ...
SURPRISE, AZ - Every three days, a seemingly healthly child dies from suddent cardiac
arrest. In response, an event next month has a lofty goal:
to save 100 young lives...
..."Only 15 percent of the youth who die from SCA are athletes," Bates said. "Everyone
has a heart, everybody deserves a heart screening."
Cardiac Screening Day in Tucson AZ
Click on the above link
to view the media story from the local
Tucson news channel 13 for the Salpointe
Catholic High School
FREE Cardiac Screening
event ...
TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) - A free heart screening was held Saturday at Salpointe Catholic High School.
Organizers hope it helps save local lives.The Anthony Bates
Foundation and the Carondelet Health
Network teamed to offer free screenings to
children from 12 years old, all the way up to 22.
Free Heart Screenings in Geneva, NY
Click on the above link to view the
media story from the local
Rochester news channel 10 for the Geneva,
NY FREE Cardiac
Screening event ...
Bates says, "When I look at the video of him after a game he's standing there
with his hands
on his hips trying to catch his breath, that is a symptoms but I didn't recognize
that I thought
he was just a big guy."
Free heart screenings for young athletes
Click on the above link to view the
media story from the local
Rochester news channel 8 for the Geneva, NY FREE Cardiac
Screening event ...
“We never know how much time we have on this
earth. We never know if were going to have
20, 40, or 60 years but we should make every day count.
And that's what he (Anthony)
taught me," said Sharon.
PDF file of the full Kids N Sports Article 2009
Click on the above link to download
the PDF of the published article
in AZ Kids N Sports regarding the efforts of accomplishments of ABF ...
“The phone rings in the middle of the afternoon, you answer it without
a
thought, a voice on the other end says, rush to the hospital, your child
collapsed on the playing field and is in critical condition.
It is something I hope you never have to experience ...”
Link to SI Article - May 2009
PDF file of SI Article
Click either of the above links to view article
or download the PDF
of the published in Sports Illutstrated with a bit about our
accomplishments of ABF ...
“Sharon Bates started a foundation that provides free EKG screenings
for athletes at Kansas State University
after her son Anthony died of an enlarged heart – the No. 1 cause of sudden cardiac deaths – after a football
workout in 2000.”
EP Lab Digest - March 2008
Click above link to view article written
by Sharon Bates of continued
accomplishments of ABF and PHW...
"The 3rd Annual Parent Heart Watch Leadership Conference
was held January 18-21 at
the Marriott Waterfront in Seattle, Washington. The PHW meeting also included
the CME
Conference entitled “Prevention of Sudden Death in Athletes.” This
article comes from one
of the attendees, PHW co-Founder
Sharon Bates." written by Sharon Bates, 2008
Book Excerpt
Click above link to view insight by Bill
Snyder of ABF and Story...
"Bill Snyder - They said it couldn't be done - An inside Look at the Man, the Coach
and the Greatest Turnaround in College Football History" written by Mark Jansesen with Bill Snyder, 2006
AED News Story on AEDs in Homes
Click above video clip of TV News Story...
"AEDs in Homes"
Broadcast on local ABC Phoenix News Program Tuesday,
June 28, 2005 and again on Wednesday, June 29, 2005.
Click above picture to view Wall Street Journal
newspaper article...
Kevin Helliker and Kathryn Kranhold report in the Health Journal - "Case Grows
for Screening Young
Athletes For Dangerous Heart Conditions..." This
article is the beginning of a series of articles that will help
uncover the misconceptions held by our medical and general society of apathy towards heart screening
our
athletes. There are large numbers (5,000 to 7,000 according
to the CDC) of young people that die every
year to "Sudden Cardiac Death." Published Tuesday,
June 21, 2005
CBS News from Tucson Heart Screening
Click above line to view video stream...
The Anthony Bates Foundation Heart Screening event in Tucson, AZ,
Saturday, March 12, 2005.
CBS News story by Mark Stine.
To be added soon
Click above picture to view newspaper article...
Louie Villalobos reports from Peoria, AZ to Arizona communities on the importance
of heart screening events. Like the one held at Peoria High School, Oct. 23, 2004.
PHS Screening Video Presentation
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For the Peoria High School Heart Screening, October 23, 2004, a video presentation was done
at the last PUSD School Board Meeting in November. All the school
board members were present
and very appreciative of the efforts of The Anthony Bates Foundation for
the children of the Peoria
Unified School District.
Pediatric Cardiology Today - Nov., 2004
Click above to download/open PDF file...
Full 2 page magazine spread of November, 2004 issue of Pediatric Cardiology Today.
Page 8 starts our article on The Anthony Bates Foundation.
CHD Day 2004 - for the Kids of Phoenix
Click above line to view video stream...
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day, CHD Day, is a national
event. In
Phoenix, AZ, a small group of mothers & fathers try to bring
awareness to
these heart conditions by coming together for the
children. This is the third annual
event held in Phoenix. Due to the
great works of Heart 2 Heart Support Group, and many sponsors,
this event is put on FREE for children of all ages. Food, Fun & Information!
Click above picture to view newspaper article...
Paula Boivin reports from Phoenix, AZ to all Arizona communities, for
the Arizona
Republic Newspaper. Kansas State University Football gets ready for another
Fiesta Bowl game without Anthony Bates, #91.
Fiesta Bowl 2004 - Ohio TV Station
Click above line to view video stream...
Kevin Landers reports from Tempe, AZ to Columbus, OH station,
WBNS 10TV. Kansas State University Football gets ready for another
Fiesta Bowl game without Anthony Bates, #91.
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