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Beginning July 1, Florida will require electrocardiogram (ECG) screenings<\/a> for all first-time high school athletes, in accordance with the Second Chance Act<\/a>, passed earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Saturday, May 23, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Lakeland High School, Who We Play For<\/a> will host a free community heart screening event for youth ages 10 to 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What: Free ECG screening for ages 10 to 25
When: Saturday, May 23, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Lakeland Senior High School Gym at 726 Hollingsworth Road
Cost: Free, donations accepted
Register Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur goal is to raise awareness and ensure families have access to affordable \u2014 and in this case free \u2014 heart screenings so students are able to safely participate in sports without barriers or confusion surrounding the new requirement,\u201d Sara Goodrich, Who We Play For heart screening director of Polk County, wrote in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

| Courtesy of Who We Play For<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to free screenings, the event will include food, drinks, ice cream, and community support from local partners and former Florida Gators athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beginning July 1, Florida will require electrocardiogram (ECG) screenings for all first-time high school athletes, in accordance with the Second Chance Act, passed earlier this year. This Saturday, May 23, from 10 a.m.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDVcL0xIUy1GbHllci1VcGRhdGVkLWpwZWcud2VicD9maXQ9NzgwJTJDMTAwOSZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IkZyZWUgU2NyZWVuaW5ncyBTYXR1cmRheSAmIzgyMTI7IEVDR3MgQXJlIE5vdyBSZXF1aXJlZCBmb3IgSGlnaCBTY2hvb2wgQXRobGV0ZXMiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.KiBLk8zkzq1SeGzgGQ1npZJgzkqBn-UC1gg4gYDeo3QMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzA1XC9MSFMtRmx5ZXItVXBkYXRlZC1qcGVnLndlYnAiLCJ0eHQiOiJGcmVlIFNjcmVlbmluZ3MgU2F0dXJkYXkgLS0gRUNHcyBBcmUgTm93IFJlcXVpcmVkIGZvciBIaWdoIFNjaG9vbCBBdGhsZXRlcyIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.2NMB7S2uinFykLXS6QmTDOVCtpDY8CrP-iCpntQlPHEMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[14667],"class_list":["post-66310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-free-screenings-saturday-ecgs-are-now-required-for-high-school-athletes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66312,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66310\/revisions\/66312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}