Cool Athletes in Hot Texas Soccer Action
Arctic Heat Cooling Vests available to keep athletes cool at the 2005 Texas Shootout in hot and humid Houston, Texas.
(PRWEB) May 25, 2005 -- Over 250 of the Nation’s top junior girl’s soccer
teams, are about to travel to Texas to compete in the 18th Annual Texas
Shootout, June 3-5. With Houston temperatures already hovering in the mid 90s,
the action at this showcase event is sure to be hot and frantic. To allow the
young elite athletes to “cool down” and “fire up”, Arctic Heat body cooling
vests are being made available at this year’s event via the medical staff.
The 2005 Texas Shootout will feature around 3000 young female athletes
giving 100% to impress the large number of college scouts in attendance. Medical
staff will be at each of the venues to help treat the sick and injured athletes.
This year the Arctic Heat Cooling Vests, Cooling Neck Wraps, Cooling Tubes and
Cooling Blankets will be ready, to help treat those athletes who struggle in the
heat.
“Each year at the Shootout, my staff & I treat a couple dozen
athletes who get some form of heat exhaustion/heat illness. The Arctic Heat body
cooling vests will be used to cool down athletes who become adversely affected
by the hot & humid weather in Houston,” said Tom Dolan, Certified &
Licensed Athletic Trainer & Sr. Vice President of Tomball Regional Hospital
and in charge of the Texas Shootout's medical team.
The ice cold vests
are ideally suited to soccer by allowing players to pre-cool before the game and
then aiding in recovery during half time. The cool vests were used by the
English and Uruguay National teams during the 2002 Soccer World Cup, and only
last week the Australian National Men’s Soccer team joined the list of elite
sporting teams to purchase the product.
The lightweight Arctic Heat
Cooling vest works using a two stage cooling process. The vests contain a
gel-like substance that can be frozen or chilled, and will maintain that
temperature for up to 2 hours. The cooling vests are manufactured using
Woolmark's Sportwool fabric which incorporates Vapor Management
Technology.
The Arctic Heat USA body cooling vest which was used during
the 2004 Olympics and is currently being used by the military in Iraq, comes in
a large range of sizes and retails for $174.95. It can be purchased online from
Arctic Heat USA www.arcticheatusa.com . More information about the 2005 Texas
Shootout can be found at www.challengesoccer.com.
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