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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is on the list for why I hate the current version of youth sports.  I can’t tell you the number of middle school girls I see walking around with knee or ankle braces, boots, k-tape or wraps holding them together.  They look like beat up 40 somethings, not prepubescent kids.  And I don’t think the clubs really care — they can just replace injured kids.  So safety gets lip service at best.  I know so many kids who have had ACL or rotator cuff or tommy John surgery as teens.  I wonder how their bodies are going to hold up when they are middle aged.

And kids absolutely do play through injuries no matter what their parents say—I’ve had so many conversations with my kids about this but they just ignore me.  They don’t want to let down their team.  They are all Kerri Strugg-ing it.  
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Way back when, my kid moved from bench player to starter then the girl who plays her position got a bad ankle sprain and she's never given it back. Even if coaches say you don't lose your spot to injury, they are lying and the kids know it. [/quote]

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