In this photo, Audrey Schelb of Milwaukie’s La Salle Prep and Lake Oswego High School striker Taylor Jones battle for the ball.īut if you compare girls soccer with football, and only look at the high school participation and injury data, “you’re missing a gigantic part of the picture,” according to Michael Koester, a doctor of sports medicine at the Slocum Center in Eugene. In addition to the impact of the ball to the head, there’s often head-to-head contact and the chance that a bad landing can produce contact between the head and the turf. It’s understandable that much of the youth concussion conversation centers on football, given the physical contact that is visibly - and audibly - evident on every play, as well as the large rosters and the lengthy lists of players who are injured.Īerial play brings multiple risks to young soccer players. “In a lot of ways, it’s a growing epidemic for young girls that I think has gone unpublicized,” said Chesnutt, co-director of the Oregon Concussion Awareness and Management Program and a member of the Governor’s Task Force on Traumatic Brain Injury. The rate of concussions in girls soccer worries local experts like Jim Chesnutt, a doctor in sports medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, who says those injuries are not widely recognized, even as concussion rates rise for girls playing soccer. What’s more, at the schools that included the gender of injured athletes, there were nearly twice as many reports of possible concussions for girls playing soccer than boys in the sport. In Oregon, injury reports from public high schools analyzed by InvestigateWest and Pamplin Media Group mirrored that trend, showing soccer concussions were second to those from football between 20. National research has found girls are more likely to suffer a concussion than boys in any sport. In 2017, researchers at Northwestern University generated national headlines when they found concussion rates among young female soccer players were nearly as high as concussion rates for boys playing football - and roughly triple the rate of concussions in boys soccer.
But it’s not just football that causes a high number of head injuries among young athletes. When it comes to concussion in sports, all eyes are on football, or so it seems.
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