Athletic Trainer, Team Doctor credited with saving referee who collapsed during John Carroll University game

(Athletic) Trainer, Team Doctor credited with saving referee who collapsed during John Carroll University game

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by: Jennifer Jordan

Posted: Feb 7, 2022 / 08:13 PM EST / Updated: Feb 7, 2022 / 08:13 PM EST

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UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio (WJW) – It was a near tragedy on the court when a veteran referee collapsed during a basketball game.

It happened on John Carroll University‘s back on Jan. 19, when the college women’s basketball team was battling rival Baldwin Wallace.

Just after half-time, veteran referee Tim Radley, 66, collapsed to the floor.

“She said I was staring up at her and I turned blue and my eyes started rolling in the back of my head and I was not breathing,” Radley said.

“We thought he was kidding around and joking and soon we realized he wasn’t,” said Cleveland Clinic Sports Medicine and John Carroll’s assistant athletic trainer Michelle Fowler.

Fowler, along with team physician Breanna Kebort, sprung into action, using a courtside defibrillator to bring the Mentor resident back to life.

“Realized he didn’t have a pulse, Dr. Kebort started chest compressions, I got the AED ready and luckily it was the Baldwin Wallace game we had together. If he would have collapsed anywhere else, I don’t know if he would still be here with us,” Fowler said.

Radley was transported to University Hospitals and underwent surgery the following day after doctors discovered major blockages to his heat.

“And they said one artery had 90% blockage and the other had 80%,” Radley said.

Now, some major changes are coming in light of this near tragedy. The Ohio Athletic Conference is intensifying efforts to have all officials supply updated medical information and emergency contacts since they had difficulty contacting Tim’s next of kin.

Radley, who has been a college sports official for four decades, was released from the hospital one day after surgery, with his wife of 45 years, Karen, by his side.

The father and grandfather of six credits his faith and the two women he now calls his guardian angels, to him being alive today.

He also thanks the fans, who gave him a standing ovation as he was carried by EMS off the court.

John Carroll training staff's quick thinking saves ref's life

WEWS NEWS CHANNEL 5

Posted at 11:24 PM, Feb 07, 2022 and last updated 12:35 PM, Feb 08, 2022

https://www.news5cleveland.com/sports/john-carroll-training-staffs-quick-thinking-saves-refs-life

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio — A lingering tightness in the chest that comes and goes was an afterthought for one local basketball referee until he started fighting for his life as a stunned crowd watched in horror.

It was a typical game night at John Carroll just a few weeks ago, like the hundreds of others Mentor native Tim Radley’s officiated during his 40-year career.

“I remember the first half was very competitive it was wonderful," Radley said.

A top 20 women’s basketball matchup between neighborhood rivals Baldwin Wallace and John Carroll.

“The girls put up over 80 points in the first half and then we went to the locker room," Radley said.

But things quickly changed on January 19 for the father of two and husband of 45 years.

“We came out of the double doors out to the court for the second half and that’s when I collapsed and that's the last I remember," Radley said.

Radley suffered a heart attack on the court.

John Carroll's training staff quickly jumped into action.

“We realized he didn’t have a pulse, she started chest compressions and the AED was in arm's length of me we cut his clothes off and set up the AED," said Cleveland Clinic Sports Medicine Senior Athletic Trainer Michelle Fowler.

Their quick action and AED brought Radley back to life.

He’s now out of the hospital and grateful for a second chance at life.

“I collapsed. Dr. Bree and Michelle my angels were right there," Radley said "They’re just wonderful people here they really are."

Radley is currently meeting with doctors to determine when he can get back on the court and ref again.

Burrow’s rebound jumpstarted Bengals

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By Laurel Pfahler 

Contributing Writer, Journal-News

Jan 27, 2022

https://www.journal-news.com/sports/burrows-rebound-jumpstarted-bengals/IAK3ZNYLTNDXRFXHC5WH6VTG2Y/

This time last year, Joe Burrow was just beginning the second phase of his rehab following major knee surgery to repair a torn ACL and MCL in his left leg. The Cincinnati Bengals quarterback wasn’t running or throwing yet, but he declared then that he would be back for the start of this season.

Burrow reached that goal and led the Bengals to a win in their opener, setting the tone for a remarkable comeback season.

After establishing franchise passing yards and touchdowns records, leading the team to its first AFC North title since 2015 and its first playoff wins since 1991, Burrow now has the Bengals one game away from a Super Bowl.

Cincinnati plays Kansas City on Sunday in the AFC Championship at Arrowhead Stadium.

“He really has overcome that,” Bengals coach Zac Taylor said Wednesday. “That’s been significant. I’m sure there was a lot of uncertainty on his end as well on how he was gonna respond. He wanted to respond the right way, but he’d never been through something like that before. So, I think it has been impressive the way he’s played this last stretch of this season, particularly now that he’s felt fully healthy. And we never take him for granted, but there’s a lot of really impressive things he does that maybe aren’t as impressive to us anymore because we’re just used to it and it’s kind of his standard, his greatness. But again, we need to step back and always take a moment to appreciate what we’ve got there at that quarterback position.”

Burrow has achieved everything this season while being the most sacked quarterback in the league, dislocating the pinky finger on his throwing hand and tweaking his right knee at one point. On Saturday in the AFC Divisional Playoff at Tennessee, he was sacked nine times. No other quarterback had taken that many sacks and still won a playoff game since the league started tracking sacks in 1982.

Now the 2020 No. 1 draft pick is preparing for a showdown with Patrick Mahomes and one of the most explosive offenses in the league.

Burrow credits his personal trainer, Dak Notestine, and the Bengals’ athletic training and physical therapy staff, for preparing his body for a long season. Those who have worked with him say it goes back to the kind of player Burrow is.

“For everyone on the outside, it is remarkable,” said Notestine, Director of Performance at Black Sheep Performance in Blue Ash. “But also, I think when you look a little deeper, you see the confidence and the passion that he has, and I mean, he is a true professional in every sense of the word. He takes everything extremely serious. He put me to work. He’s so detail-oriented and invested in the process and wants to know how this is gonna play out, what the plan is for every part along the way, so there’s no doubt that he was going to come back better than ever. He’s just dedicated to his craft and is a true professional in every sense of the word.

“So if you know him on that level and understand that, and I think you see it on game days when he’s talking to himself and everything, that’s not hype. That’s really how he is and that’s him being the leader and confident athlete that he is. He fully expects to go out there and do everything that people expect him to do and more.”

Notestine has known Burrow since his dad, former Ohio University defensive coordinator Jim Burrow, recruited Notestine to play football for the Bobcats in 2006.

After Notestine finished his playing career in 2009-10, he began working as a strength and conditioning coach at Ohio and often worked with the coaches’ kids. That’s when he started training Burrow as a middle schooler, on up through high school and when he would return to Athens on college breaks – and then again last January when Notestine moved to Cincinnati.

Burrow had undergone surgery in December 2020 in Los Angeles, and when he returned to Cincinnati, he connected with Notestine. The Bengals’ athletic training and physical therapy staff worked with Notestine to create a coordinated plan for Burrow, and the two started with general physical preparation, building up Burrow’s upper body and working on the non-injured leg until he was ready to strengthen the other leg to that same level. They continued working together until OTAs and for a few sessions afterward.

Though his recovery was on the early end of the projected timeline for return, Burrow felt good enough to play. As the season went on, he started feeling more comfortable, and now he’s playing the best football of his career, he said.

“I wouldn’t say that I had less confidence on it earlier but I would say that I wasn’t able to do certain things that I had been able to do in the past,” Burrow said. “Like make people miss in the pocket and extend plays, I really couldn’t do that until after the bye week is when I started to finally feel like myself, and I think that’s when I started to play my best football.”

Notestine wasn’t surprised to see their work pay off this season, for Burrow and the Bengals.

“He fully believes that he is going to reach all the goals that he has set forth,” Notestine said. “It’s just a matter of time, and the fact that it’s come so quickly you can’t help but just kind of sit back and be a little bit in shock, but if I were a betting man I’m always going with Joe. I mean just, like I said, the passion and professionalism he brings every day to everything he does, I think it’s bleeding into the Bengals organization and I think he just makes everybody better around him.”