Over the past month, the Intramural leagues on campus have taken some hard blows with a few of their players getting injured during play.
“Anytime a person steps out onto a field to play some kind of sport they are taking an assumption of risk,” Assistant Director of Intramural sports Michelle Wentzel said. “We play about 40 hours a week on two fields and have not had an excessive amount of injuries.”
Injuries in the past weeks have ranged from a number of head injuries to a shoulder injury, knee injury and a few other minor injuries. Soccer and football tend to be where the most of the spring injuries occur, according to Wentzel. She went on to say soccer tends to have the most concussions with the nature of the sport.
Over the past three weeks the Cain soccer field has seen a variety of injuries.
“It’s just a freak of nature that they all happen in a week or two rather than spread out across the semester,” Wentzel said.
A Greek player for the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, Amy Fletcher, was taken to the hospital after sustaining a concussion during a fall in a soccer game versus the Alpha Phi Sorority.
“Amy was taken to the hospital by ambulance and kept for a few hours for observation,” senior criminal justice major Nicole Ferrazzoli said.
A player for the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, Ritesh Merha, received an injury about two weeks ago.
“During the game I was pushed down to the ground and I hit it hard,” Merha said. “I left that game with a concussion and asking for Cheerios, as I am told.”
Wentzel also had her own injury this semester playing flag football.
“I was playing quarterback,” she said. “I juked, planted my leg, my body shifted one way and my leg another. It’s a possible ACL and MCL injury, a typical injury for the sport.”
The staff does everything they can to prevent these injuries during play. These precautions include canceling games when the field is too wet to play. Since this semester has been so wet, about half the games have been canceled or rescheduled.