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Trying to reduce concussions BY STEVE POWELL and BRANDON ADAM spowell@marysvilleglobe.com
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From pro football on down, everyone involved with the game is worried about concussions. But in the Marysville and Arlington school districts a Concussion Baseline Testing program is being used to try to be even more accurate in determining if one has occurred. The three football teams in those towns have a pre-test this month. Their reaction time is tested, kind of
like a field sobriety test. A computer program comes up with a baseline score. Players are then tested during the season – especially if they get a hard knock – and the numbers are compared. “They can tell me or a doc I’m OK, but they can’t get by the reaction test,” said Tim McTee, athletic trainer at Marysville-Getchell High School. “They lose their balance or memory because their neurons can’t get fuel. They’re done for the day, and we tell their parents.”
McTee said concussions can be hard to spot, unless the player is knocked unconscious. “It can look like normal contact,” he said. Last year, Arlington also implemented base-line testing to screen for concussions. For all sports, athletes must take a test that measures their maximum mental faculty, Arlington head football coach Greg Dailer said. SEE REDUCE, PAGE 2
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Proper use of helmets is key to reducing concussions.
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Friday Night Lights will be showing in Marysville, Arlington and Lakewood Sept. 5 as the high schools begin their football seasons. The sequels to last year will be tough to match at Lakewood and Marysville-Pilchuck as they both went undefeated, but lost in the first round of the playoffs. Arlington is moving down from 4A to 3A and will be in the same league as M-P and Marysville Getchell, adding to the importance of the local rivalries. Arlington will be playing in a stadium with new turf. MG is in its fourth year with a football team, so this senior class is the first one to have played together their entire high school career. The best may be yet to come as that squad boasts 34 sophomores. Marysville Getchell MG has 21 returning lettermen from a squad that went 5-5 again last year. Coach Davis Lura said the community has been very supportive as the team started from scratch when the school opened four years ago after breaking away from MarysvillePilchuck. “The community has been great,” he said, adding the squad was 0-10 its first year, followed by a 5-5 season. Davis said the middle school and youth football programs have helped
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Marysville-Pilchuck players tangle up in a tackling drill on the first day of practice. They play in a jamboree at Quil Ceda field Saturday, Aug. 30, at 7 p.m. The Tomahawks play at home against Kamiak the following Friday, Sept. 5.
Photos, Page 11, online MG. They “help make our job easier,” Davis said. The coach said he expects M-P,
Arlington and Oak Harbor to be the teams to beat. Top players he has back include: defensive end John Clark, who is being looked at by Pac-12 schools; quarterback Taylor Koellemer; and sophomore Collin Montez at tailback
and rover. He said Montez is one of the best athletes he has ever seen, and he’s only 14. He was a standout in all major sports last year as a freshman and does the 40 in 4.6 seconds. SEE FOOTBALL, PAGE 2