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Sources: Extreme Weather and Youth Sports

American Lung Association: Too Hot? How to NOT Trigger Your Asthma
https://www.lung.org/blog/asthma-heat-triggers

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Heat & Health Tracker
https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/Applications/heatTracker/

Climate Central: Childhood Heat Risk Is Rising
https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/childhood-heat-risk-rising-2025

Environmental Protection Agency: Heat and Teenage Athletes
https://www.epa.gov/children/heat-and-teenage-athletes

Environmental Protection Agency: Protecting Children and Maternal Health From Extreme Heat
https://www.epa.gov/children/protecting-children-and-maternal-health-extreme-heat

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine: “Heat-Related Illness and Young Athletes: 3 Important Things Parents and Coaches Need to Know”
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/heat-related-illness-and-young-athletes-3-important-things-parents-and-coaches-need-to-know

National Weather Service: HeatRisk
https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/heatrisk/

National Weather Service: What Is the Heat Index?
https://www.weather.gov/ama/heatindex

Project Play: “Youth Lose One Week of Sports a Year Due to Climate Extremes”
https://projectplay.org/news/project-play-survey-youth-lose-one-week-of-sports-a-year-due-to-climate-change

Washington Post: “Why One Epidemiologist Won’t Let His Kids Play on Artificial Turf Fields”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/05/artificial-turf-heat-health-environment-cost/

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