The Baltimore Sun: Trainer at Wilde Lake aims to reduce ACL injuries among female athletes

In what she hopes can be a model for the rest of Howard County, Wilde Lake athletic trainer Allison Hammond has launched a program aimed at reducing the occurrence of anterior cruciate ligament injuries for female athletes at the school.

The program, patterned after one developed by the Santa Monica Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation, consists of about 24 activities performed by athletes at least twice a week in lieu of their normal warm-ups.

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Volleyball Metro Top 20

You have seen the Baltimore area’s top 20 polls and you have seen the DC area’s top 20. But only Scholastic Sports Net offers the weekly Metro Top 20 which takes all of the top teams in the entire Baltimore/Washington area and ranks them against one another. Here is the 2008 preseason Metro Top 20:

1. Centennial
2. Reservoir
3. Severna Park
4. Catonsville
5. Magruder
6. Dulaney
7. Broadneck
8. Bethesda-Chevy Chase
9. South Carroll
10. Fallston
11. Towson
12. River Hill
13. Atholton
14. South River
15. Poly
16. Wilde Lake
17. Mt. Hebron
18. Glenelg
19. Wooton
20. Eleanor Roosevelt