Athletes can’t use respirators to protect against artificial turf exposures
A standout Tacoma, Washington, high school soccer player died last year at 24, following a seven-year battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to an article in the Tacoma News Tribune.
The man’s parents worry about the players who will follow after him, running, rolling and diving into the more than 11,000 artificial turf soccer fields around the country — including at more than a dozen schools in the Tacoma School District — just as their goalkeeper son did.