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The Harvard women's lacrosse team took its first step towards a national championship Wednesday by defeating William and Mary, 7-6, in Williamsburg, Va.
"The athletic trainer used to be sort of a mystic figure who learned training from someone," says B.J. Baker, trainer for the Harvard mens' soccer, basketball and lacrosse teams. Now the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) has established a curriculum for trainers, and most universities--including Harvard--require their trainers...
Lacrosse coach Scott Anderson says the changes have improved training rooms. "When I was at Dartmouth, [the graduated in 1973] they weren't as technologically advanced nor as skilled," he says. "The comraderie was there, but not the professionalism."
Each year between 1980 and 1985, varsity and freshman football accounted for 175 "time loss" injuries, which force a player to miss a day of practice, while men's lacrosse, the most accident prone spring sport, averaged only 39 a year Coughlin says.
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