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University Daily Kansan, October 7, 1980
Practice Test 134
Game of volleyball, not players, invites injuries
Shelly Fox and Jill Stinson avoid a collision de Vollyball is a sport that invites injuries from dI injuries to fingers from blocking and floor burn hardwood floor are commonplace for volleyball
By KEVIN BERTELS Sports Writer
In volleyball, it's not whether you win
and whether you can play the
next game.
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Few sports offer the opportunities for injuries that volleyball does. When six players are crowded into a 30-by-30-foot square and when the nature of the game calls for diving on a hardwood floor or blocking at close range a ball being hit as hard as possible, injuries are almost invited.
Take, for example, one of the more obvious actions on a volleyball court that could cause injury—the dive. To the spectator, diving headlong to the floor appears to be the most dangerous move possible.
But not by KU coach Bob Lockwood and his volleyball team. Though the game may invite injuries, it also is one way to avoid injuries. Certainly no one can imagine a basketball coach telling his team to slow down so they won't get hurt. By the same token, volleyball coaches must exercise mindfulness but teach techniques for safety.
To the volleyball player, the move has become natural through training and repetition. Tina Wilson, a senior on the team, said yesterday that she had to
"CONCERNING INJURIES," it's top of the list, Schoerder said. "Every injury that I can spot, if it isn't a freak accident, happened from not rotating the ankle or the knee or something. I think because of the physical difference, girls need to stretch more than guys."
"Things such as net violations cause injuries, when one girl lands on the foot of a girl on the other side of the net." You should never go under the net. In practice, there are a lot of balls around. We make it policy that the girls yell well and not jump until the ball is moved or be alert to be able to be alert for and do from day-to-day.
more finger injuries this year," Bulmer said. "You've got a girl spiking as hard as she can and you get a finger bent back too far."
"You use your shoulder for everything in volleyball." Lockwood
As the trainer, she knows that is not always achieved.
Schroeder, who leads the team in warm-ups, and who helped Lockwood design the w-m- run routine, says that a person can mean important—they are indispensable.
While serving, volleying and spiking, and in the midst of any number of situations that could cause injury, one could assume that it was easy to hit a woman.
Knowing how to fall includes keeping the hips and knees off the floor, not always easy or possible, because they protrude further than the rest of the body. The point is that brushes are the result of dives, and they can be seen on every ball player.
"They sometimes get burns on their hips," she said. "As far as stomach and chest go, they don't get hurt. But they can bump bones once in a while."
But other things can cause injuries. A very common injury in volleyball is the finger sprain; volleyball's version of the jammed finger. The sprain often occurs when girls are blocking spikes at the end of a ball handle.
Most volleyball injuries come from players landing on something besides the flat part of the foot against the flat floor. Whether it is a ball, someone hits your foot or their own foot, chances are good that what goes up won't land at it started.
"THE IDEA IS for them to start on slow and put most of the weight on their chest and stomach and arch their back muscles and stretch their knees into the floor," Bulmer said.
After many bruises and floor burns, the proper technique for diving onto a hardwood floor is perfected. But then a few years ago I learned that learned techniques are flung away and an all-out dive is the only answer. Skin and bones hit the floor at the same time, and both the crowd and the player know it was not proper technique, according to experts.
One particular injury that hinges directly on stretching is tendinitis. The quick action of serving can wear on the shoulder, and often servers develop tendinitis, much like pitchers develop sore shoulders.
"Everyone in a while you hear the screech of skid on your floor, but usually you don't."
its components," she said. "It can be broken down into separate little parts.
"Voleball is so much diving or rolling," she said. "If you don't dive right, you cut your chin open. I don't think there is a girl on our team who can split her chin open. Eventually your body begins to adjust to the way to drive."
cording to Diane Schroeder, a senior on the team.
THE DIVE IS the most obvious on-court suicidal malice not the most on-court self-harm to leave to later.
But from the first referee's whistle to the end of the match, fear must be put in the back of players minds, because
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