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smiled. The male and female students — many of them athletes — walked by photos of a handful of athletes who died of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), including Varrenti’s son, Nick, who passed away seven years ago at the age of 16 after collapsing on the football field. “I just want to check everything out and make sure I’m healthy so I can play sports,” said Bothell senior Ryan Carter, who plays football and soccer. Carter added that history teacher and track-and-field coach Cathy Boyce suggested that he and others get heart screenings. Varrenti, the executive director of the Nick of Time Foundation out of Mill Creek, said that by the end of the day on Jan. 11, about 500 students from Bothell, Inglemoor and Woodinville high schools would receive heart screenings. “We were completely taken off guard, so we thought it was something that people needed to know about,” Varrenti said. “A lot of times parents think that when they take their child for a physical or a sports physical, that everything is going to be covered, and it’s not.” She added that students need an electrocardiogram (electrical test, ECG) at the very least, and an echocardiogram (ultrasound test), as well. Jonathan Drezner, family medicine/sports medicine physician at the University of Washington and medical director of the Nick of Time Foundation, said that SCA is the leading cause of sudden death in young athletes and a significant cause of sudden death in youths. “Most kids who die on the playing field actually have no warning symptoms before their first collapse, which is from sudden cardiac arrest,” he added. “So this type of screening provides a model where we can do not only history and physical, but also an ECG, which allows us to get more information about the heart.” About 120 volunteers attended the event from the University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Swedish Medical Center, Cardiac Science, Sonosite, Physio-Control, Bothell Fire and EMT, Woodinville Fire and Shoreline EMT and Valley Regional Fire Authority. (Some of those organizations also [ more heart page 9 ]