Lacrosse

in 1891. Dr. Naismith was told by Dr. Luther Gulick, who was in charge of the Physical Education at the School of Christian Workers, to think of a new game. Dr. Naismith struggled to come up with something. His first idea was to bring soccer and lacrosse inside, but that was too physical. He finally thought of an old childhood game he used to play called duck-on-the-rock. This game gave him the idea of a new game called basket ball. It wasn’t the exact game he played, but the method was similar.…

Synthesis High school and college sports undoubtedly enrich a student’s life during their formative adolescent years. From creating irreplaceable relationships with teammates, to forming unforgettable memories, to perhaps winning a championship or two, it seems that the number of positive results that accompany the participation in athletics is infinite. However, there is a much more subtle, yet much more significant effect of being on a team. Playing sports as a young adult undeniably improves…

science at the University of North Carolina has done a long-term survey of catastrophic injuries in sports since 1982 (Chan). Mueller found that the most catastrophic injuries in high school sports were found in contact sports, such as football and lacrosse. The study Mueller has recorded shows that football is the most dangerous sport relating to catastrophic injuries. There have been over six hundred catastrophic injuries in football, 101 of these fatal, since he initiated the study.…

should be banned from playing until he or she has been medically evaluated. And game rules regulating safety should be strictly enforced. Those, for instance, penalize head-to-head contact in football and blindside hits to the head in hockey and lacrosse.” An explanation of this is that if a child is injured, then they have to go through several steps before they can play again. Picture playing at a game when suddenly, wack! A player gets hit. He is crying and shouting in pain. Coaches won’t let…

After school on Monday I went to the school trainer, whom after a lengthy examination of my knee, told me the good news that I had no torn ligaments in my knee. I had strained my MCL, a muscle on the inside part of the knee that allows lateral and horizontal motions (Zumerchik 688-689). She told me if the ski on my left foot had twisted even an inch further, I would have had a season ending injury such as a torn MCL or ACL. It would have been very hard to wrap my mind around the fact that I…

Marcus Gravey, an early 20th century American Political leader, once stated “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. “ For any group of people to be successful, it is imperative that they understand where they once came from. Many precentors in our class captured the essence and importance created by the specific culture they studied. There are numerous amounts of cultures that all interact and intermingle in many different ways that…

to have a car of my own to brag about and customize myself. My parents and I were all in the car on a weekend afternoon when I brought up how it would be really convenient it would be for me to have my own car. My dad had work at nine pm and I had lacrosse practices at 7pm and it seemed like I had to race home to catch him and I wouldn’t be able to go to team events. It was also hard for my dad to go run errands on the days I had plans with my friends since we shared one car. My dad and I had…

with the idea of basketball. Basketball was never meant to become as big as it is today. Naismith was just assigned to come up with a game that people in the YMCA could play during the winter, in between the seasons of football during the fall and lacrosse during the spring. Basketball is different from the invention of other sports because it was not evolved from a different sport and was made up by a single individual. Basketball is pretty much played the same way with the exception of quite a…

Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes to ever walk this earth, lived his teenage years attending a Native American boarding school, speifcally attending the Sac and Fox Indian Agency school in Stroud, Oklahoma, then the Haskell Institute, which is an Indian boarding school located in Lawrence, Kansas, and finally attending college at the infamous Carlisle boarding school. However, Jim’s story does not start at his education, it begins at his Native American roots. On the morning of May 28th,…

1. Suckerfish "Fuck" is all I can say while reading the time and day on the home screen of my iPhone. I overslept. Today. Technically I'm supposed to be taking an Algebra II exam right now, but that didn’t exactly go as planned. It's supposed to be really important, but in the last couple of months I've managed to completely fuck up my entire life. I’ve lost track of everything. According to my iPhone, it's mid-June, which means that we are in end of school year exam time, but I'm just so over…