2010 Female Athlete Scholarship Winner Announced at Learn2TrainSafely.com

Philadelphia, PA, June 17, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Learn2TrainSafely.com proudly announces the 2010 winner of their scholarship contest: Emily Little, a skier from Washington State. Her essay: "My Best and Worst Experince in my Sports Career."

www.learn2trainsafely.com offers quality information and programs so every user can make informed decision(s) about having teen female athletes train to play their sport(s) and minimize the risk of injury.

Warren Potash launched the website in October, 2010 to help teen female athletes and their parent(s)/guardian(s) learn about the next hurdle for adolescent female athletes; i.e., value training to play sports and lower the non-contact ACL injury rate with safe and age-appropriate training.

Their white paper that explains why teen female athletes need to train to play sports is available at http://www.learn2trainsafely.com/67.html.

The Need for Female Athletes to Train

Historically, girls have played sports and boys have trained to play sports. This is one rationale for the discrepancy in injury rates between the sexes. Physiological, anatomical, biomechanical, hormonal, and neuromuscular differences exist as well.

“There is no doubt that there are neuromuscular differences between males and females. Depending on their sex, athletes fire different muscles for the same task. Women also tend to run, jump, and land in a more upright position than men....Women shouldn’t accept ACL injuries as the price they have to pay for being athletic.”

He continues that “roughly one in ten [1:10] female collegiate athletes are likely to suffer a season-ending knee injury. That’s huge, … studies have shown that the risk of a sports-related knee injury may be as much as six [6] times greater in women than men.”
- Dr. Ed Wojtys, Professor and Team Physician at the University of Michigan Medical School

Dr Hewett's recommendation for training female athletes: “Here’s the answer right now, if you are afraid that your daughter or your athlete might get into trouble, train her. Number one, it’s going to decrease her likelihood of injury. Number two, it’s going to make her a better athlete.”
- Tim Hewett, Director of Applied Research at the Cincinnati Sportsmedicine Research Foundation

In February, 2001, at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons [AAOS] national meeting, the following tips for preventing kid’s sports injuries was issued:

“Many of us falsely assume that by virtue of their youth, children are in peak physical condition. This is not a given. Children should train for the particular sport they wish to participate in prior to playing the sport, rather than expecting the sport to get them into shape. Careful well-structured and closely supervised weight training may moderately assist some youngsters in preparing for athletic activities.”

“…As more and more girls enter the game, the landscape of aching athletes is expanding dramatically… Children should play as children, not adults. ”
- Dr. DiNubile, Philadelphia, PA

Warren Potash, Specialist in Exercise Therapy and Sports Nutrition, Managing Partner - Learn2TrainSafely.com says: "Bottom Line – Most volunteer coaches are males and they have been training females as if they were males. This is not an indictment – they do not know any better."

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