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maybe mickie demoss will leave uk and coach somerset

sounds to me like we have got a lot of parents coaching down there in somerset and that is probably way more of a problem than who their coach was.

Don't know much about what happened but Murphy was doing a heck of a job at Christian!!!!

They wouldn't beat any of the WNBA teams. Did you watch the final game of maryland vs. duke. It was played at an extremely high level. Lex. Cath girls could beat some boys teams in the state

You can't tell the people up the road anything ....they think they already know it all.

Call UK Sports medicine and ask for a medical release for a player with a torn ACL. I can't believe anyone would even TRY to take up for the decision to put a 14 to 15 year old child in harms way.

Everyone from Wolfe Co. was proud of Jackson. That did show alot of class for Gilbert and the entire boys basketball team at wolfe county

yes

These two instances were with mildy, partially torn ACL where there was still support. AND they were braced accordingly. I had a friend who tore his ACL and didn't go to the dr. for 2 years. it was totally gone and the dr. told him he was very lucky that he didn't lose his leg while continuing to play softball. Not to mention when you are compensating for an injury you lose your body's natural balance...which, in turn, increases the chance for injury. Malik had a high percentage of hurting her good knee by overcompensating on it during the game. .....especially competing at the highest level of the year with the most stakes.

I don't know the name of the artery. I have had a torn ACL and the dr.'s warned me on how careful I had to be until I had surgery(and even after). They explained to me how the ACL is connected to the top and bottom bones of my leg down through my knee. This connection helps keep the bottom of your leg from moving too far forward and even totally out of place. If it goes too far out of place that is when it can sever the artery that runs through the leg. That is why I found it so shocking that they played her.

We have a rule at our school that a dr. must release an athlete...maybe she had a release..but I can't imagine a dr. taking on that liability.

I am no Dr. but I have had a torn ACL and the doctor warned me that if It gave out in the right way while the ACL was absent, that it could potentially tear an artery that runs down my leg and that I could possibly lose my leg, or die from bleeding if I wasn't close to help. That is what the dr. told me.....if this is true...it is very frightening to take that type of chance. who knows...maybe it isn't true that that is a possibility.

There is no doubt that lecath is one of the best teams of all time. I would question ANY coach, parent, and even dr. that would say that a kid could play without an ACL, given the possibilities of what could happen to that child. This has nothing to do with who this is, but it is everything about What happened. I saw the first game and she logged in some pretty good minutes. It is my understanding from reading this thread she didn't play much the remainder of the tournament because of the fact she reinjured the knee in the 2nd round game.

This story quotes the reason for playing as the KID didn't want to miss her chance to be in the state tournament.....I'm sure that is why she transferred to Catholic in the first place..(but that is another story) It says that friends and family advised her not to play. .....Any KID in sports is going to decide to play...this is where the COACH has to step in....they have had the medical symposiums and they would be the one jeopardizing the kids future.....In this case the possibility of losing the her leg from the knee down.....I'm sorry there is NO JUSTIFICATION possible for lexcath playing this kid. Let me explain medically. The ACL main respoinsiblity is for holding the bottom part of your leg in place and keeps it from moving forward (YOUR SHIN BONE). Without this ligament the leg could move forward too much causing a main artery that runs down through the leg to be severed. If this happens that kid would have LOST THE BOTTOM PART OF HER LEG....THAT IS if they got the bleeding stopped befere she DIED!!!!

I came back from the girls state tourney and found an old newspaper and was shocked at what I was reading. There was an article about Lex Cath playing FRESHMAN Malik stevenson in the state tourney with a fully torn ACL. I was absolutely shocked. I know that lexcath will go to no ends to win.........but I didn't know that they would stoop to this level. A kid with a torn ACL playing would have a risk of having an injury so severe that they could lose the bottom part of their leg. Is everyone as shocked as I am.....I didn't think their was a coach in the state of Ky. that would play an athlete in this shape......Rick Pitino wouldn't even play Derek Anderson after he had surgery and the dr.'s had cleared him to play. Is everyone as shocked as I was or was this just misinformation on this story printed in the lexington herald.