4 witnesses have come forward and given statements they heard PRP coaches deny water to PRP football players just 10 minutes before "Max" went limp and later died.
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Lt. Col. Troy Riggs said today that the review of 15-year-old Max Gilpin’s death is being conducted at the request of Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Stengel.
Stengel said he made the request after reading an account in The Courier-Journal today in which four witnesses said that a coach denied water to players.
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Seriously no one should ever die from dehydration or overheating.
Hydrating yourself is so easy and it's not going to take away from the players practice time by taking water breaks.
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Weakley said Max’s body temperature was 107 degrees when he was brought to Kosair Children’s Hospital and “obviously” suffered from heat stroke.
Also today, an additional witness said he saw a coach forbid three or four players from getting drinking water while they were running sprints after the regular practice session ended on Aug. 20.
Phil Compton, of Valley Station, who took his 11-year-old daughter to watch a soccer game on an adjacent field, said that when the football players began walking toward a water fountain at the far corner of the soccer field, the coach “pretty much called them out and told them it wasn’t time” to drink.
“They turned around and went back on the field,” said Compton. “I thought, golly, this is ridiculous. It was so hot out there.”
Another witness, Robbie Simon, who had come to watch her two nieces play soccer for PRP, said she saw football players bending over and that the coach yelled at them, “Get back out there, get back out there.”
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These coaches, if this is true have no excuse.