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Softball Field Venue

Emergency Personnel

Contests: Certified athletic trainer on duty, athletic training aide, event manager, headand assistant coach if needed.

Practice:  Coach, certified athletic trainer on duty available by phone (x2388) during normal regular season practice hours.  If practice is conducted when a certified athletic trainer is not present, the COACH is the designated first responder.

 Emergency Communication

Telephone is attached to a pole on the roadway between the softball field and the track/turf field.  Place call to Campus Police emergency number x5555 (who will notify EMS if needed) or the athletic training room x2388.

Emergency Equipment

Team medical kit on site.  Splints, crutches, extremity immobilizers (on site for contests) available from the athletic training room when the athletic training staff is on duty.  Spine boards and other emergency equipment will be aboard the ambulance.  The response time from call is approximately 4 minutes.

Role of First Responder

It is assumed that the most qualified person on site will assume care of the injured athlete until EMS arrives.  This person will also designate and direct others in the first response team.

  1. Initiate care of injured or ill student-athlete or other victim.
  2. Emergency equipment retrieval by designated person.
  3. Activate EMS. Call Campus Police at x5555.  State the number of injured persons, condition, treatment being given, specific directions to the scene.
  4. Event manager or designated person directs EMS to scene.

Venue Directions:

Emergency access to the turf field & track is via Rt. 135. Access to the venue is via the Parking lot entrance at the west end of the Towne Field House. Continue straight through the Distribution Center parking lot to the field gate entrance. Follow the road to the right and down the hill. The field is at the bottom of the hill on your right.

 

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Department of Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics (PERA)
Last Modified: January 21, 2007