Football High  Interview Doug Casa  Doug Casa  A leading expert
on heatstroke, he is a researcher and professor at the
University of Connecticut and chief operating officer at the
school's Korey Stringer Institute, named for the Minnesota
Vikings' offensive lineman who died of heatstroke in 2001.
"There should never, ever be a person [who dies] from exertional
heatstroke, because it's 100 percent survivable," he says. This
is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on Dec. 17,
2010.  Tell me how you got into this initially.  My interest in
heatstroke has existed for about 25 and a half years. I had a
heatstroke myself when I was 16 years old competing in a 10K
race on the track in Buffalo, [N.Y.,] in 1985. On the final lap
I went down, got back up in a couple seconds, and then in about
100 meters I collapsed again, and then I went into a coma for
most of the afternoon. I was obviously fortunate to survive that
heatstroke, but I developed the passion from that moment, and
it's pretty much been my singl