March 2007

The San Jose Mercury News has a story about the abundance of ACL injuries among women’s basketball players in the Pacific-10 Conference.

Research has indicated that female athletes are two to eight times more likely to suffer ACL tears than their male counterparts. (That’s reflected this season in the Pac-10, where only one male basketball player has torn an ACL.) One report showed that about 2,200 female college athletes are sidelined each year by the injury.

Perhaps most cruel: A majority of the ruptures don’t involve contact with other players. Athletes suddenly, almost freakishly, crumple to the ground in agony.

[via SGFsoccer]

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The web and PDF versions of the match schedule have been updated. The changes include:

• The match vs. Nixa has been moved from March 29 to April 19.
• The third match of the Quincy Tournament against Horlick has moved from 11:00am to 11:30am.

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Practice today will be in the small gym starting at 4:30pm. Please bring running shoes.

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