Behind the 90-person Pomona-Pitzer football team, which practices daily and competes weekly, are the student athletic training staff who work behind the scenes to ensure the season runs smoothly for the players. The full-time football athletic trainer (AT), Lane Fishburn, currently employs three student ATs to help her with operations.
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It’s time we treated the epidemic of female ACL tears like the injury crisis it is
Why aren’t injuries in women’s sports taken seriously? Georgia McGovern CM ‘’24 shares her experience of rupturing her ACL, MCL, and meniscus while playing volleyball. She goes on to cite a lack of research and women-specific athletic gear being a potential component of the knee injury epidemic in women’s sports.