Ralph Reiff

President | Reiff Executive Performance Solutions | 4x Hall of Fame athletic trainer | Founder St Vincent Sports Performance | 25 years Butler basketball AT

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Expanding the business portfolio. Reiff Executive Performance Solutions 💥

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Thank you @My_MATA for bringing me to Biloxi! Always greAT to meet up with @strappatc and so many others moving the needle of athlete care! #Biloxi

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🎉 Congratulations to Jessica Jochum, clinical associate professor and associate program director for athletic training in the Department of Health and Kinesiology, on her upcoming induction into the Indiana Athletic Trainers Association.
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So good

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Communication
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Agriculture

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U.S. farm bankruptcies surged to a six-year high in April, with Chapter 12 filings jumping 130% from a year ago as rising costs, tight margins and economic uncertainty continue to put pressure on farmers across the country.

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Maintaining Performance Between Seasons

⚽️⚽️ Preparing for Peak Competition and the 2026 FIFA World Cup™
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✅ Athletic Director, Strength Director, AHCA https://t.co/JpooyU8Mpl

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The @Braves are 20 games over .500!

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Webinar
💥Onboarding Athletic Healthcare: Challenge the Process – REPS Onboarding©
Date: Tuesday, June 23
Time: 12:00 pm ET
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Dale Lloyd II, Rice University, 2006. His death led to the NCAA's mandatory sickle cell trait screening — Division I in 2010, Division II in 2012, Division III in 2013.

C.J. Dickey, Bucknell, 2024. Eighteen years old. Tested positive for sickle cell trait pre-camp. Died of exertional rhabdomyolysis after a conditioning session. His family filed suit against Bucknell weeks later.

Two cases, eighteen years apart, on opposite ends of the same policy.

The first tells us the test matters. ⚖️The second tells us the test alone isn't enough.

A 2020 epidemiological review in the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine found 10 SCT-associated exertional deaths in Division I football in the 12 years before the 2010 bylaw, and 1 in the 8 years after.

The screening works. But "works" was always the floor, not the ceiling.

What sits between a positive test and a safe practice is a series of conversations — with the athlete, with their position coach, with the strength staff, with the parents when they ask. Those conversations are not optional.

They are the policy, policy I have written.

If a department can produce the test result but cannot produce a record of those conversations, the policy is half-built.

What does your department do in the 48 hours after a positive SCT result lands?
Not sure? Let’s have a discussion [email protected]

SOURCES FOR THIS POST
Boden BP, Fine KM, Spencer JR, et al. Nontraumatic Exertional Fatalities in Football Players, Part 1. Orthop J Sports Med. 2020;8(8).
NCAA Bylaw 17.1.5.1 (Sickle Cell Solubility Test); D-I 2010, D-II 2012, D-III 2013.
Dickey case: ESPN reporting, August 2024; NPR reporting, April 2025.

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Adam Cobb: From Coma to Campus https://t.co/IUserwogvq
Indianapolis based Driven . Wow

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Momentum is building as Purdue’s new Academic Success Building starts to change the skyline in downtown Indianapolis.

The building will be a hub for classrooms, labs, dining, housing and community connection in the heart of the Circle City. https://t.co/ZGLb2E9Efk

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Consistent metric is mental grit…

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First Professional Start ✅

Last night, Talia Sommer made her first start for #GothamFC during our @ConcacafW Champions Cup match 👏

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Announcing The Queens Collective as a part of our programming for The Queens Classic, presented by @CarMax ⭐👑⭐

This one-of-a-kind networking event before our historic match offers the opportunity to connect with leaders across the sports industry.

Don't miss out - tickets are on sale now at https://t.co/QjPNv36KQZ

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@BoziTatarevic @MeyerShankRac @FRosenqvist How do these benchmark across the grid?