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Study Indicates Higher Injury Rates For High School Athletes Who Specialize In One Sport

Study reveals that student athletes who specialize in a single sport sustain lower-extremity injuries at significantly higher rates than athletes who do not specialize in one sport. Courtesy/NFHS

NFHS News:

INDIANAPOLIS — A study conducted by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and funded by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Foundation revealed that high school athletes who specialize in a single sport sustain lower-extremity injuries at significantly higher rates than athletes who do not specialize in one sport.

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McNiel: The Culmination

By MICHAEL MCNIEL
Los Alamos

It all comes down to this game! The stage is set and the outcome is as big as the mountains in the back drop.

To quote Travis’s father Mark Gonzales, “This is how you want to play at the end of your senior year.” 

In case you don’t know, it’s senior night, it’s a district championship, it’s potentially the last home game of the season, and that’s just the football game. For 10 young men it could be the last time they put on the topper uniform and run out of the helmet. For our senior cheerleaders and band members, it is their last night under Read More

Los Alamos Xtreme Football Champions

Champs 2016. Courtesy photo
 
LAYFL News:
 
Los Alamos Xtreme Youth Football League (LAYFL) won the season ending championship game Oct. 30 clinching the victory over Pojoaque Crush in the 7-8 year old tackle football division in the Northern New Mexico Children’s Football League (NNMCFL) Zia Bowl in Santa Fe with a 20 – 0 victory. Los Alamos.
 
LA Xtreme won the regular season with a 7-1 record scoring 224 points against opponents, and only allowing 32 points. In the post season LA Xtreme clinched the Zia bowl in two games with a total offense of 27 points and allowing 0.
 
Honorary
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Los Alamos Aquatomics Masters Compete In Taos

Several members of the Los Alamos Aquatomics Masters team traveled to Taos Oct. 1 to compete in their Arts Festival Swim Meet. The Aquatomics are part of US Masters Swimming, training 6-7 a.m., Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. In the photo from left, Doug Wedman, Victoria Maqueda, Norma Pawley, Pam Lee, Anna Nowell, Coach Maribeth Englert and Alison Moore. Courtesy photo Read More

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