Only the fourth week into the new school year and already more than five players have been injured. The two main sports these students play are the most popular sports at Westminster, soccer and volleyball.
Andrea Walsh has played volleyball all four years of her high school years and has joined leagues outside of school. Over this past summer during one of her leagues, Walsh injured her ankle when she jumped to spike the ball but ran too far into the net and landed on the girl on the other side. Sadly, this resulted in a sprained ankle, which turned into a chipped bone.
Luckily, Walsh is back for the school volleyball season, along with teammate Emily Bickford. Bickford also hurt her ankle while playing the same sport by landing on someone’s foot when she was blocking. She feels that her incident could have easily been prevented by wearing ankle braces.
The most common point injury in volleyball is, obviously, the ankle. Brittnie Feitlich sprained her ankle and has yet to return back to her team. No one was really surprised when they heard she hurt herself since the same ankle was hurt twice last year in soccer.
Soccer is another dangerous sport in terms of injuries this year. Michael Franco broke his clavicle the first week of school because of a senior trampling him. It surprised all his teammates and most of the school. He hopefully will not be out for the rest of the season and is only waiting for the doctor’s approval for him to continue playing.
Another soccer injury that’s occurred this year was Nick Gnan. The referees apparently weren’t paying attention when a kid kicked Gnan, resulting in a fractured shin and the bench seat for the rest of the season. He’ll be sitting out for most of the basketball season as well. The injury itself wasn’t surprising but how it happened was.
Many students have hurt themselves so far and school’s barely started.
--By Becky Welc
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