FB: American Rivers Conference

[Charlie Kohawk]

Tough loss today for the Kohawks, but I couldn't be prouder of this team. Coe is losing a great group of seniors who provided tremendous leadership and set a benchmark by which future teams will be measured. Thanks to them, the future of Coe football looks very bright.

[AZDutchman]

Congrats Kohawks on a great season!

[Klompen]

Want to add my congratulations to the Kohawks on a great season.  Tough break losing your  QB in the playoffs.  Been there, done that.  Still a great season for tghe Dutch and the Cohawks.  Time to start working on next year.  Go Dutch!

[coocooforcoekohawk]

With Coe's win against St. John's it has meant that a different team from the IIAC has made it to the final 16 three years in a row.

Way to represent the IIAC Kohawks!

Too bad Coe couldn't have made it three years in a row with a different team making it to the final eight.

The IIAC is a tough conference!

[warthog]

Thought for the day:

One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured.   

-Author Unknown

[5 Words or Less]

Thought for the day:

One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured.   

-Author Unknown

Luther cheerleader hurt in fall
by wcfCourier.com - Monday, September 25, 2006

A Luther College cheerleader was seriously injured at a Saturday football game.  Chandni Desai, a junior from Primghar, was practicing a cheerleading formation prior to the game at Wartburg College when the incident occurred.  Desai was taken to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City for surgery, said Luther public information officer Jerry Johnson. Desai was reported to be in serious condition on Saturday soon after the accident, Johnson said, but no current condition information was available.  No information was available, according to a University of Iowa spokesman today.  The incident delayed the football game at Walston-Hoover Stadium between rivals Luther and Wartburg by about 10 minutes.

[5 Words or Less]

Thought for the day:

One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured.    

-Author Unknown

Luther cheerleader hurt in fall
by wcfCourier.com - Monday, September 25, 2006

A Luther College cheerleader was seriously injured at a Saturday football game.  Chandni Desai, a junior from Primghar, was practicing a cheerleading formation prior to the game at Wartburg College when the incident occurred.  Desai was taken to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City for surgery, said Luther public information officer Jerry Johnson. Desai was reported to be in serious condition on Saturday soon after the accident, Johnson said, but no current condition information was available.  No information was available, according to a University of Iowa spokesman today.  The incident delayed the football game at Walston-Hoover Stadium between rivals Luther and Wartburg by about 10 minutes.

Girls' Most Dangerous Sport: CheerleadingBy LiveScience Staff
posted: 11 August 2008 05:14 pm ET

For high school girls and college women, cheerleading is far more dangerous than any other sport, according to a new report that adds several previously unreported cases of serious injuries to a growing list.

High school cheerleading accounted for 65.1 percent of all catastrophic sports injuries among high school females over the past 25 years, according to an annual report released Monday by the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research.

The new estimate is up from 55 percent in last year's study. The researches say the true number of cheerleading injuries appears to be higher than they had previously thought. And these are not ankle sprains. The report counts fatal, disabling and serious injuries.

The statistics are equally grim in college, where cheerleading accounted for 66.7 percent of all female sports catastrophic injuries, compared to the past estimate of 59.4 percent.

The revised picture results from a new partnership between the sports injury center and the National Cheer Safety Foundation, a California-based not-for-profit body created to promote safety in cheerleading and collect data on injuries. The foundation provided the center with previously unreported data. The new data added 30 injury records from high schoolers and college students to the 112 in last year's report.

Catastrophic injuries to female athletes have increased over the years, since the first report was published in 1982.

"A major factor in this increase has been the change in cheerleading activity, which now involves gymnastic-type stunts," said Dr. Frederick O. Mueller, lead researcher on the new report and a professor of exercise and sports science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "If these cheerleading activities are not taught by a competent coach and keep increasing in difficulty, catastrophic injuries will continue to be a part of cheerleading."

Less than catastrophic injuries are vastly more common and they occur at much younger ages, too. Children ages 5 to 18 admitted to hospitals for cheerleading injuries in the United States jumped from 10,900 in 1990 to 22,900 in 2002, according to research published in the journal Pediatrics in 2006. The breakdown:

•Strains/sprains: 52.4 percent
•Soft tissue injuries: 18.4 percent
•Fractures/dislocations: 16.4 percent
•Lacerations/avulsions: 3.8 percent
•Concussions/closed head injuries: 3.5 percent
•Other: 5.5 percent
The new report released Monday found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority (67) occurring in cheerleading. The next most dangerous sports: gymnastics (nine such injuries) and track (seven).

Among college athletes, there have been 39 of these severe injuries: 26 in cheerleading, followed by three in field hockey and two each in lacrosse and gymnastics. The report also notes that according to the NCAA Insurance program, 25 percent of money spent on student athlete injuries in 2005 resulted from cheerleading.

In 2007, however, two catastrophic injuries to female high school cheerleaders were reported, down from 10 in the previous season and the lowest number since 2001. Yet there were three catastrophic injuries to college-level participants, up from one in 2006.

According to the report, almost 95,200 female students take part in high school cheerleading annually, along with about 2,150 males. College participation numbers are hard to find since cheerleading is not an NCAA sport.

[5 Words or Less]

Congratulations IIAC Cheerleaders

[Airborne Dutch]

Do I dare be the one to start the debate on whether cheerleading is a sport and risk the wrath of DutchFan1?

[warthog]

Thought for the day:

To hell with Notre Dame!

- Bo Schembechler

[Kohawk Remedy]

Congrats on a great season for the Kohawks and IIAC in general! 

[Spurrier]

i second that sentiment warthog

[warthog]

i second that sentiment warthog

Spurrier:

It sounds like the Irish will be sniffing around Cincinnati for a new coach when things become official in South Bend.  That is one of the tough things about being a college athlete.  If your team does really well or really poorly there is a strong possibility you will be playing for a new coaching staff next year.

I assume all is still going well for Little Spurrier.  I've still got that Wartburg uniform reserved for him.  Until all his eligibility is used up, I'm holding out hope.

[doolittledog]

So, anyone out there have access to 2010 IIAC football schedules that they would like to share???   

[doolittledog]

Central has their 2010 schedule posted...

Sept. 4 Wis.-Oshkosh Pella 1 p.m.
Sept. 11 Augustana (Ill.) Rock Island, Ill. 6 p.m.
Sept. 18 Dubuque Pella 1 p.m.
Sept. 25 Coe Cedar Rapids 1 p.m.
Oct. 2 Cornell Mount Vernon 1 p.m.
Oct. 9 +Simpson Pella 1 p.m.  Homecoming
Oct. 16 Luther Decorah 1 p.m.
Oct. 23 Loras Pella 1 p.m.
Oct. 30 Buena Vista Storm Lake 1 p.m.
Nov. 6 Wartburg Pella 1 p.m.

2 straight years with their bye week the last week of the season???