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. Erwin Mazarie-
gos, a senior mechanical engineering
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Ultimate Frisbee is the only self-offi
ciated sport, he said, meaning the
players decide when to substitute
and call fouls on each other as they
occur.
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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