The Ice Trash Can Challenge and Track
Title: The Ice Trash Can Challenge and Track I was sitting in my mandatory New York State coaching class years ago when the venerable old teacher asked what we thought which sport caused the most injuries in Section V. Someone said, “Football,” which is what popped into my mind and if that hadn’t won the prize you’d think “Lacrosse would be a contender!” Let’s think about this for a minute. You have boys that weight-lift year round and weigh over 200 lbs trying to run through each other to smash some 160 lb soaking wet kid into the ground! To help with this they practice attacking pieces of equipment, throwing their body into it as hard as they can. Or they send a football down to the other end of the field and unleash a bunch of huge guys to tackle the skinny kid attempting to run the ball to a large safe zone where no one will hurt him! If only he can make it there! Then you have grown adults screaming either for the army of hulks to level that skinny kid or for