Heart of a Champion Day
June 3, 2023 at Bank of America Stadium from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Registration Window: May 1 to May 21
Ardrey Kell
Berry
Butler
Chambers
East Meck
Garinger
Harding
Hopewell
Hough
Independence
Mallard Creek
Myers Park
North Meck
Olympic
Palisades
Providence
Rocky River
South Meck
West Charlotte
West Meck
Anson HS
CATA
Cuthbertson
Forest Hills
Marvin Ridge
Monroe
Parkwood
Piedmont
Porter Ridge
Sun Valley
Weddington
Union Academy
Concord
JM Robinson
Mt. Pleasant
Northwest Cabarrus
Hickory Ridge
Cox Mill
AL Brown/Kannapolis
Central Cabarrus
West Cabarrus
North Lincoln
Lincoln Charter
Lincolnton
East Lincoln
West Lincoln
Albemarle
Gray Stone Day
North Stanly
South Stanly
West Stanly
Charlotte Catholic
Mt. Island Charter
Hickory Grove Christian
Carmel Christian
Charlotte Christian
Union Academy
Nation Ford
Fort Mill
Catawba Ridge School
York HS
South Pointe
Northwestern
Rock Hill
Heart of a Champion Day is an an annual free sports-specific health screening and educational program for high school student athletes. The screenings include a review of the athlete's medical history, a sports-specific medical and musculoskeletal exam, a heart exam and a vision test. The program is unique because of the heart screening, where all student athletes receive an electrocardiogram (EKG), which traces the heart's electrical activity, from an Atrium Health Levine Children’s cardiologist. A heart screening is performed to increase the chance of detecting a heart problem that could affect an athlete's ability to participate in sports safely.
Traditional sports screenings may not detect these heart abnormalities. However, no screening program is designed to detect every abnormal condition. It is also important to note that this program is not intended to replace an athlete's yearly well child exam.
The educational program provides information and intervention early when habits of healthy living can be set or modified and when young student-athletes are motivated to respond.
Students will need transportation to the event. Students will also receive heart screenings for sudden cardiac death, not offered at routine athletic physicals, to detect health risks before they become issues.
Heart of a Champion Day aims to:
Each student athlete receives a free:
Students are able to participate in a raffle drawing for Carolina Panthers items and will have the opportunity to receive free CPR training after their sports physical.
Heart of a Champion Day statistics showing the number of student athletes screened and medical issues found are impressive. But it’s the personal stories, of students who were able to continue their athletic careers after being treated for a condition discovered during the screenings, that are most poignant. Independence High football player Jaylen Riley and his mother, Nicole, tell the story of his Heart of a Champion Day experience in 2014.
Contact the Heart of a Champion Day Team