mr. mike oliver. let me repeat, the executive director of the national operating committee on standards for athletic equipment. having read my preparations, and still a little bit confused about what you do and what you do not do. >> i think i can cover that. >> thank you. >> i appreciate the invitation to come here today and provide testimony and answer questions to the committee on a topic that is extremely important, to me personally as well as the organization i represent. my name is mike oliver. i have served as the executive director and general counsel of noxy. we develop face guards, hellas and even soccer shin guards. -- helmets and even some pershing guards. each organization, by definition through our by lies, selects one or two of its members to sit as the director on the board. we have two non-voting positions representing the national sports governing bodies of the ntia and the high school federation, the nhs. there is no single controlling interest group on the board. it is not a trade

mr. mike oliver. let me repeat, the executive director of the national operating committee on standards for athletic equipment. having read my preparations, and still a little bit confused about what you do and what you do not do. >> i think i can cover that. >> thank you. >> i appreciate the invitation to come here today and provide testimony and answer questions to the committee on a topic that is extremely important, to me personally as well as the organization i represent. my name is mike oliver. i have served as the executive director and general counsel of noxy. we develop face guards, hellas and even soccer shin guards. -- helmets and even some pershing guards. each organization, by definition through our by lies, selects one or two of its members to sit as the director on the board. we have two non-voting positions representing the national sports governing bodies of the ntia and the high school federation, the nhs. there is no single controlling interest group on the board. it is not a trade

mr. mike oliver. >> having read my preparation to this hearing i am a little bit confused about what you do and don't do. >> thank you. members of the committee. i appreciate the invitation to come here today and provide testimony is important to me personally as well as the organization. my name is mike oliver. i have served as executive director and general counsel for the national operating committee on standards for athletic equipment. we are nonprofit corporation was develops and publishes standards for athletic equipment including helmets, face guards, safety balls, and even soccer shin guards. we operate as a board of 18 directors representing a wide variety of national sports, sports medicine, and other interested organizations. each organization by definition through our bylaws selects one or two members to sit as a director of the board. in addition to the 18 voting directors there are two non-voting positions representing the national sports governing bodies of the ncaa and the national his school federation. there is no single controlling interest or interest group on the boa

mr. mike oliver who is executive director of the national operating committee on standards for athletic equipmentme all of you, and i will just close right there and ask if the chairman of the subcommittee would wish to say something because he has been just terrific on the subject and also the ranking member. go ahead. >> thank you mr. chairman again for holding this very important hearing this afternoon. as a former player it is certainly something i'm interested in but also there are so many moms and dads and coaches and players all across the country that are also very interested and probably should be marches did and what -- and what they realize and that is a great thing about having this hearing is to try and get that information out and really discuss a potential very serious problem. not a potential very serious problem, very serious problem period. sports place of vital role in the development of young men and women, help social relationships while keeping them physically active and healthy and having fun. according to the national high school sports related injury surveillance study, p