What is SWABA?

Strong Women are Better Athletes, or SWABA for short, is a blog-site created to bring young female athletes and their families the news and research they need to stay healthy and be competitive in their sport. Focused on ACL injury etiology and prevention, SWABA hopes to bring ACL injury awareness to a nation-wide level to help train better athletes and keep them healthy.

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Questions? Comments? kaleenee [at] gmail dot com

Reading List

Warrior Girls, by Michael Sokolove
Understanding and Preventing Noncontact ACL Injuries, by American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine

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What does this say about young women in sports?

Catfighting gets ugly

This has been all over the Internet recently: during a BYU vs. New Mexico Women’s Mountain West Conference college tournament game one New Mexico player, Elizabeth Lambert (#15), yanks another girl to the ground by her ponytail!  And that’s not all, if you watch the whole video, it’s a very… nasty… game for [...]

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