Here are a few:
(All pictures are property of Ruth Judson & WOGA Gymnastics. I cropped some faces out, because some of these girls are like, 10, and I felt weird about posting pictures with faces.)
Rebecca Bross of course. (Also, notice the scale in the background...)
Jessica Howe
This is what I've always done when I've broken toes, but it could be something less.
I don't know, are this many girls ALWAYS injured at gyms like this? It just struck me as odd. It's also worth mentioning that I didn't see any pictures of Sophia Lee at all. What do you think?
what album are these in
ReplyDeleteThey're in the Girls Albums on this page:
ReplyDeletehttp://woga.net/team-2/team-photos-conditioning/
While the casts are clearly for injuries, some of those lighter braces can be preventative as much as a sign of an actual injury. I've been known to wear similar braces at just the slightest twinge to make sure it doesn't become something worse. (for context I'm an acrobat, not an elite gymnast)
ReplyDeleteThose pics are over a period of time too. Jessie Howe's wrist was this past summer.....
ReplyDeletedont forget they have a lot of people on team there....but yeah that is a lot of injuries
ReplyDeleteAlso,to be fair to WOGA, these aren't all of the girls that were pictured. There were a ton of girls in the pictures, and not all of them were injured, maybe just a fraction of the girls. With the pounding that comes with being a gymnast, it is not uncommon for injuries. However, it's not quite right to spin it so that it seems like everybody who steps through those doors is injured.
ReplyDeleteSidenote- I, too, did not see Sophia Lee. However, she may have just missed practiced that day due to illness or something else. Or, I may have just missed her :)
Oh, I'm not trying to make it out that every girl in there is injured, not even a little bit. I don't know if this many people being injured is normal or not, it just seemed like a lot to me.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Sophia thing only concerned me, because the pictures were over a 3 day period.
Those are clearly old photos .... as Lizzy LeDuc is pictured there too.
ReplyDeleteMaybe she was taking a college visit? This was before signing day, correct? :)
ReplyDeleteAs I said at the beginning, these are from early September, 2011.
ReplyDeleteI looked through all the pics and dont think it is that many that are injured in proportion to the number training and most likely the number unseen in some of the photos! Nice to see that Madison Kocian is training and looking to be in good shape.
ReplyDeleteCome to my gym in FL, and you'll see that people walking around with casts is not an odd thing. Go to most large gyms and you'll see this.
ReplyDeleteIts gymnastics, there are going to be injuries.
Point taken! That's why I finished the post by asking "is this normal?"
ReplyDeleteMy cousin is elite and I asked her this. She said it's common to see 4 people with bandages in the gym and usually two or 3 with an actual leg brace or cast. So the above is normal.
DeleteThose pictures look more creepy without heads then they would have been with them.lol
ReplyDeleteI think this is normal i went to a small gym and we always had 2 to 3 people in some sort of cast and are team was like 25 people.
ReplyDeleteWhile visiting a local orthopedic, he stated that he sees many athletes from WOGA all with similar ailments resulting from over conditioning and poor stretching/poor form. Seems like an epidemic if you ask me. Meh!
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