Korey Stringer died from heat stroke 25 years ago. His widow has made prevention her life’s mission

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — The memory of losing her husband is so hauntingly clear 25 years later that Kelci Stringer could still draw a detailed picture of her hurried path to the hospital room where Korey Stringer died from exertional heat stroke.

Having arrived in the middle of the night, she realized she was too late once she saw Vikings teammates Cris Carter and Randy Moss sobbing on the floor.

For all that went tragically wrong at the beginning of that training camp in 2001 in Mankato, Minnesota, Kelci Stringer has since made a life mission of keeping others from such a preventable death.

“The work we’re doing and the way we’re doing the work is most important to me because we’re giving back in a way that’s very exemplary of Korey,” Stringer said.

Named after the only NFL player known to have died from heat stroke, the Korey Stringer Institute opened in 2010 with three employees at the University of Connecticut and now ...