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Wednesday, February 4, 1987/The Battalion/Page 11 ^Sports clubs feature ariety of opportunities ■ P By Sherry Copeland Wm Reporter if many Texas A&M stu- jjjjj^Hts haven’t participated in intra- mu; I sports, most students are fa- ar with the A&M Intramural artment. But how many have ;rd of A&M’s Extramural pro- ? Most probably don’t realize he! big difference between the two [grams. Extramural Sports is a totally dif- erfent thing from Intramurals,” said Sla Opal, assistant director of Ex- rafmiral Sports. Intramural Sports A&M students a chance to •cothpete against each other, where amural Sports Clubs compete students from other campuses. Jrhe Extramural Sports Clubs are • D ,, upen to all students and faculty —re- ^■‘iHdless of their ability — who want j. to participate in a sport of their ^^Kce,” Opal said. , : Tlie program is designed to pro- %<*e a variety of sports while offer ing instruction, recreation and com- ^ ■ pediion to those of all skill levels. ■^.^Jhere are 27 clubs in the program H&ra iging from archery to wrestling. ~~^'Eaci dub is categorized as either a P Hn or an individual sports club. ^Hark Flinn, a senior building con- || ^Rction major, has been a member of the club for seven years. Flinn f * H rugby is one of the most physi- i§ly demanding sports offered at A&M. ton’t let that keep you from try- lout though,” Flinn said. “We will anyone get ih shape and teach n how to play the game.” luring the semester, the Rugby t> travels to many tournaments, 'hr spring the club is going to New «ans to participate in the Mardi Iris Tournament Feb. 28-29. Last It , the club went to Tuscon, Ariz., [o compete in a national tourna- lert, placing sixth in the country, ilthough club members work hard at playing rugby, Flinn said there are plenty of opportunities to socialize as well. The individual sports clubs are similar to the team sports. The Handball Club is very popular with students as well as faculty members. Todd Bryan, a junior finance ma jor and club president, said one ad vantage of being a member is that courts are reserved in the Read Building seven days a week, from 5 to 7 p.m., exclusively for club mem bers. “This provides members who are wanting to improve their techniques with a variety of skill levels to choose from among handball club mem bers,” Bryan said. For the better handball players, the club also has an organized hand ball team. Missy Sheffield, a senior physical education major, has been a member of the team for four years. “I couldn’t get into raquetball be cause it was mil, so I had to take handball as a P.E.,” Sheffield said. Sheffield had never played handball until she came to A&M, but she has competed in the national competi tion for three years in a row. “We are scrappers,” Sheffield said about the team. “We work hard and have fun.” The team is currently ranked sec ond in the nation. Bryan and Shef field both agree the only problem with the club is lack of adequate fa cilities. When the club hosts a tour nament, Bryan said, entries must be limited to a small number of teams because large audiences cannot be accommodated. “If our facilities were equipped to do this, we might have a shot at host ing nationals,” Sheffield said. But if neither of these sports is up your alley, there are 25 more to choose from. Ultimate Frisbee is one of the lesser-known clubs. 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Opal, who is also the club’s ad viser, said Extramural Sports Clubs are recognized by the University as student organizations and must abide by University regulations. Funding is provided for each club through the Extramural Depart ment. “The clubs could always use more money,” Opal said, “but I kind of like it when they have to raise the money themselves. It makes them pull together.” itudy: Football injuries up in high schools ■ NEW YORK (AP) — Thirty- ■ven percent of the more than 1 Hillion American teen-agers who played high school football last yfcar were put out of action by in- jlry at least once, according to a ■udy issued Tuesday by a na tional organization of sports tlainers. Many suffered more than one injury during the season and a Mayer was twice as likely to be IBurt in practice as during a game, the stuay of the National Athletic ■rainers’ Association also found. ■ The study was based on a na tional sample of 6,500 varsity and jiinior varsity players at 105 high Schools, and projected to the 15,500 schools in the country that Held football teams, said John Powell of San Diego University, who conducted the survey. I The projection showed there Were 636,000 injuries throughout the country, of which 62 percent Occurred during practice. I “Only in professional football do we see the majority of injuries Occurring in games — about 60 Ipercent over the entire season,” said Powell, who in addition to di recting research for the trainers’ association is director of the Na tional Football League’s injury surveillance program. Powell and other speakers at a news conference kept making the E oint that while the study was ased on schools having full-time trainers for their teams, about 90 percent of high schools have no health care professionals at prac tices. “We would never think of put ting a professional team out to practice without a trainer, and yet we do it all the time with kids,” said Dr. Allan Levy, team physi cian of the Super Bowl champion New York Giants. Levy called it imperative to have someone in a position to say no to injured youngsters who don’t realize they are hurt and to coaches and aggressive parents who pressure players to get back on the field. “In the absence of a health care professional at practice time, when the injuries occur, the big gest problem that I see is re-in jury,” Levy said. “High school athletes all think they are super men and nothing can happen to them.” Powell said the study was the first of high school football since a federal survey 11 years ago. The 105 schools that contributed data were atypical in that they were among the 10 percent with full-time health care profession als or trainers, and their duties in cluded keeping records on inju ries. None of the players at those schools suffered catastrophic in jury or death in 1986, so no pro jections could be made in that cat egory. However, the study noted that other researchers have found that an average of 34 par alyzing or fatal injuries directly related to interscholastic sports have occurred each year since 1982. Seventy-five percent of the 1986 football injuries were classi fied as minor and of less than a week’s duration, 16 percent were moderate, or lasting one to three weeks and 9 percent were major, or more than three weeks. The overwhelming majority of injuries were classified as strains and the general trauma of con tact, meaning mostly cuts and bruises, the study said. About a third of injuries were to either the hips, thighs and an kles or the arms, wrists and hands, the study said. Fifteen percent of the injuries were to knees, with just under 10,000 high school players suffer ing knee injuries severe enough to require surgery. Another 5,000 players needed surgery on other parts of the body. In varsity games, the most dan gerous position was running back. A ball carrier figured to be injured once every 11 games. Quarterbacks were hurt every 15 games and linebackers every 20. Offensive linemen and wide receivers were least likely to suf fer game injuries, the study showed. 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