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High School Sports Research Paper
Broken Dreams?
Caroline Allen, 9
Bloomfield Hills High School

Occasional bumps and bruises are expected to occur on athletes playing sports, but h igh school athletes account for an estimated two million injuries each year, having major effects on high school athletes futures.
Today, many BHHS freshmen athletes are feeling the effects of sports injuries being hit with sports injuries early in their high school sports careers. As a result, many freshmen feel there are positive and negative effects of sports injuries based on how serious the injury is.
Bridget Paulon, BHHS 9th grader sustained a soccer injury last fall that required surgery on her ACL and meniscus. Her injury required surgery a few months later. This type of injury normally requires a 6­12 month recovery. It was a non­contact injury, and
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Joneson’s injury occurred while she was running down the field and was also a non­contact injury. This injury required surgery weeks later and is participating in physical therapy for five months, three days a week for 30­60 minutes. She is anticipating returning to soccer in late April with a full recovery. “I won’t be able to play soccer my freshman year,” Joneson explains. “I don’t think that not playing freshmen year will not have much of an effect on my high school soccer career.” She also believes she will have to work hard to get reconditioned as a result of inactivity from the injury. Joneson knows of others who have not been able to come back from soccer related injuries and that makes her want to work harder. Yet, she is also glad this injury happened in her freshman year, and believes it will be easier to make a comeback from this point.
Joneson would like to further her soccer ability by being a collegiate student­athlete. “It would be great to be a college student­athlete,” Joneson claims. “I believe that my injury will not negatively impact the college recruiting process, because college recruiters typically do not look at ninth graders.”
Ciecko gives advice to all student­athletes and states,

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