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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Field Hockey 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. Severna Park
2. Broadneck
3. South River
4. Bethesda-Chevy Chase
5. Fallston
6. Quince Orchard
7. Towson
8. Chesapeake-AA
9. Century
10. C. Milton Wright
11. Winters Mill
12. Centennial
13. Hereford
14. Centennial
15. North Carroll
16. Glenelg
17. Mt. Hebron
18. Catonsville
19. Loch Raven
20. Westminster