Hooton to give talks about in two Acadiana high schools
President of Taylor Hooton Foundation and Lafayette native, Don Hooton, recently visited Acadiana to give talks about steroids in St. Edmund’s School and Opelousas Catholic School. In time with the upcoming fall sports tryouts, Hooton would want to spread the word about performance-enhancing drugs, particularly the dangers that it pose.
Hoot’s Chalk Talk program is the core educational program of the Taylor Hooton Foundation. It has been created to raise awareness on steroids and a hundred other performance-enhancing drugs. It also promotes the foundation’s core values such as honor and integrity.
The Taylor Hooton Foundation was created after 16-year-old Taylor, a student and baseball player from West Plano Senior High School, committed suicide in 2003.
His death was linked to his steroids use, which caused clinical depression and suicidal tendencies.
He was advised by his coach to gain more weight in order to become more effective in competitions. Taylor decided to take a shortcut into getting “bigger” by taking steroids combined with Clomid. He came from a baseball family and played as a pitcher in his school’s baseball team.
Steroids are not only popular among bodybuilders but it also gained popularity among baseball players. They are either used to help athletes gain weight or help them recover from sports-related injuries.
From KATC:
Lafayette native Don Hooton speaks across the country about the dangers of performance-enhancing drugs, or steroids. He started a national organization, the Taylor Hooton Foundation, after his teenage son died from them. Now he is back in Acadiana to spread the word.
