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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doctors are doctors.  They do not like collisions and people getting hurt.  No one does, but in theory -- when assessing the pros and cons of a given sport -- it should be considered.

There is a group that has kept injury stats for college sports starting in the 1980s as submitted by team trainers and doctors.  They are an interesting read, because they have good participation and good numbers.  The stats have gotten better of the years as injury types and areas have gotten more precise.

Soccer is always problemactic because of knee and head injuries.  More knees for women than guys.  More heads for guys than women.  Pretty consistent with how the game is played really.

Still -- the scary stat for parents like me of a daughter who played college soccer is that essentially there is one knee injury (ligament damage/tear) necessitating more than 2 weeks out of practice/games per team, per year.  Basically the stats are based on an "event" which is a practice or a game.  So, with a team of 25 women soccer players the stats would say you are going to get at least 1 and likely 2 blown knees in a given year.  (Obviously a tear will be 6 months to a year - but they do not track beyond 2 weeks which would be a sprain.)

Sadly -- having had a daughter play club from u9 through u18, 4 years of high school varsity [b]and 4 years in college [/b]-- I would say that those stats were pretty darn accurate. 
Her club teams were about 1 acl/mcl tear per year from u14 to u18.  There was one bad concussion which kept a kid out for about 6 months.   Her college team only had two acls in 4 years -- pretty good, and two major concussion incidents -- 1 head to head, and 1 head to goalpost that were season ending - apparently about average on those.  Her friends' teams were often not as lucky - so, again, I would say those expected averages were pretty much on point.

It does change things from the dad perspective -- in a college game you find yourself rooting for the following:  (1) your kid to play if that is at all iffy, (2) you kid not get hurt, (3) again, your kid not get hurt (4) no one else getting hurt (4) your kid to do well; and (5) you hope your kid's team wiins.

Wait, you had a daughter that played soccer in college?  You are a LIAR!!!!!!  According to the people on DCUM, there is a 0% chance of that.

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