Parents please do not drive up the hill. Park either in the senior citizen parking lot , or at East Senior High.

Please try to get your children there on time. Bring lots of water and mark their water bottle with their name.

Call your coach if you have any problems. CLICK ON CONTACTS if you need phone numbers.

Feel free to bring your non playing children to practice, but please do not leave them unsupervised.

Bring a lawn chair and watch your kids having a terrific time.

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VOLUNTEERS

West Seneca Little Loop Football and Cheerleading is a family oriented organization which is run entirely by volunteers - 

parents like you - who make the time to be involved.
  
Volunteering is a rewarding investment.  
     » Frequent contact with your children's teamates, their parents and coaches.
     » Get first-hand updates on events.
     »Access to activities that you may wish to improve upon.
     » You become part of the organization - no longer just a by-stander.                   

Some volunteers devote a great deal of time - while others help out here and there whenever possible. West Seneca Little Loop is striving for 100% parent participation. Without parent volunteers, this organization could not exist.  We need YOU.

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Board Member

We welcome your interest and involvement. Openings for new Board Members arise when a current member resigns or their term has expired. The candidate most qualified for a position is usually already involved in West Seneca Little Loop activities and displays responsibility & commitment. Becoming an active volunteer is the surest way to become part of our team & ensure that West Seneca continues to be one of the best youth sports organizations in Erie County. When a position becomes available and must be filled. A candidate must be a member of West Seneca for at least 1 year to be eligible for an Officer position.

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MONTHLY MEETING

Please join us at Tony Romes,1537 Union Rd.West Seneca 7:00pm on the third Tuesday of every Month for our Monthly

meeting, just don't sit on the sidelines, join in on helping us move this organization forward.

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WEB SITE 

 

WE HAD 198,246 HITS TO OUR WEB SITE . That is a great number. We are ahead of that pace by 60% for. 2011, so keep coming back to see whats happening. Make sure you check out the LINKS page on this web site for fun & games, all FREE..Coaches go to 'COACHES CORNER' for great coaching Links. If the weather is threatening (lightning) BE PREPARED to PICK UP your children EARLY... Please use good  judgement, and do not strand your kids in a storm. thank you.

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Hydration

Hydration is important, not just during exercise, but well before and afterward.  Also, keeping kids out of the sum for long periods before the practice or game is critical. They get drained easily. When it is hot and or sunny, drink lots of WATER: not  Power Aid or Gatorade. Those are OK afterwards not before.

Injuries Uncommon in Youth Football, Mayo Clinic Study Reports

Courtesy of Mayo Clinic Proceedings

ROCHESTER, MINN. -- A Mayo Clinic study of youth football showed that most injuries that occurred were mild, older players appeared to be at a higher risk and that no significant correlation exists between body weight and injury.

The study, which appears in the April issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, found that the data for athletes grades four through eight indicated that the risk of injury in youth football does not appear greater than the risk associated with other recreational or competitive sports.

"Our analysis showed that youth football injuries are uncommon," said Michael J. Stuart, M.D., a Mayo Clinic orthopedic surgeon and the principal author of the study.

Dr. Stuart and his colleagues studied 915 players aged 9 to 13 years, who participated on 42 football teams in the fall of 1997. Injury incidence, prevalence and severity were calculated for each grade level and player position. Additional analyses examined the number of injuries according to body weight.

A game injury was defined as any football-related ailment that occurred on the field during a game that kept a player out of competition for the reminder of the game, required the attention of a physician, and included all concussion, lacerations, as well as dental, eye and nerve injuries. The researchers found a total of 55 injuries occurred in games during the season a prevalence of six percent. Incidence of injury expressed as injury per 1,000 player-plays was lowest in the fourth grade (.09 percent), increased for the fifth, sixth and seventh grades (.16 percent, .16 percent, .15 percent respectively) and was highest in the eighth grade (.33 percent). Most of the injuries were mild and the most common type was a contusion, which occurred in 33 players. Four injuries (fractures involving the ankle growth plate) were such that they prevented players from participating for the rest of the season. No player required hospitalization or surgery. The studys authors said risk increases with level of play (grade in school) and player age. Older players in the higher grades are more susceptible to football injuries. The risk of injury for an eighth-grade player was four times greater than the risk of injury for a fourth-grade player. Potential contributing factors include increased size, strength, speed and aggressiveness. Analysis of body weight indicated that lighter players were not at increased risk for injury, and in fact heavier players had a slightly higher prevalence of injury. This trend was not statistically significant. Running backs are at greater risk when compared with other football positions, the researchers reported.

Other authors who contributed to the study include: Michael A. Morrey, Ph.D., Aynsley M. Smith, RN, Ph.D., John K. Meis, M.S., all from the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center and Cedric J. Ortiguera, M.D., a Mayo Clinic orthopedic surgeon in Jacksonville, Fla.

Mayo Clinic Proceedings is a peer-reviewed and indexed general internal medicine journal, published for 75 years by Mayo Foundation, with a circulation of 130,000 nationally and internationally.