In the 9 1/2 years since his son, Sean, died from an undetected heart condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a recreational-league football practice, James Fisher has dedicated his life to finding ways to prevent sudden-cardiac-arrest deaths.
Fisher has been a longtime advocate of requiring parents to sign questionnaires on their child's heart history at the point of signups for their youth leagues throughout New Jersey.
"It's all about trying to prevent it from happening again,'' Fisher told NJ Advance Media for a Dec. 7, 2017, report on how a Central Jersey soccer club was educating the youth-athletic community on sudden cardiac death in athletes.