Sue Mergen
Thursday, May 17th, 2007 01:52:37 PM
 Photo by Sue Mergen Miss Wisconsin shows lifesaving equipment Pictured with Jordan Dieman (right), Meghan Coffey, Miss Wisconsin, shows Phillips Middle School students how to operate AED equipment. |
Meghan Coffey, Miss Wisconsin, visited Phillips Middle and Elementary schools this week on Monday and Wednesday, respectively. She has been delivering inspirational messages throughout the state of Wisconsin since last year when she was crowned Miss Wisconsin. She also visited Park Falls schools Tuesday. Her travels have not only brought her to Northern Wisconsin but all over the state to speak to schools, church groups, scouts, leadership camps and civic organizations.
Meghan spoke to students about the “Start a Heart”program that she founded and the reason why she is so passionate about the program.
A few summers ago, Sudden Cardiac Arrest struck a member of her family when her young cousin was hit in the chest by a baseball. He lay on the grass with neither pulse nor breath. But thanks to a defibrillator on the spot, her cousin survived the episode.
Those few scary moments on the field are what led Meghan to begin volunteering at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. Her focus was "Project A.D.A.M." (Automatic Defibrillator in Adam's Memory), an initiative recalling a local student whose death from Sudden Cardiac Arrest during a basketball game could have been prevented if a single AED and one trained person had been available.
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