Northbrook, Ill. – School’s out for the summer, and kids around Chicago are finally getting the chance to run and play outside. Yet some of them may be running with a silent killer.
In fact, the sudden death of one such North Shore teenage athlete recently has prompted her mother, Michele Snyder, into action. Snyder hopes to change laws and people’s mindsets about sudden cardiac arrest. And there’s one thing she says MUST be present at every field and court and sporting event where kids are playing.
“It was just a normal day, it was a summer day,” said Snyder, calmly recounting August 21, 2008 from her backyard in suburban Northbrook. That fateful day was 17-year-old Jenny Snyder’s first soccer practice of the season, right before the start of her senior year of high school.
