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48 | September 19, 2019 | The Northbrook tower sports northbrooktowerdaily.com Athlete of the Week 10 Questions with Nya Robinson Robinson is a member of the Glenbrook North girls swimming and diving team When and why did you start swimming? I started swimming at a young age because my parents put me in a swim class and I just improved from then. What do you like most about the sport? I like the competitiveness of it at meets. Do you have any superstitions before a meet? No, I don’t think so. I just think about the positive side of it. What is your favorite sports moment? Just whenever I drop my time for a certain cut that I was going for. What is one thing people don’t know about you? People don’t know that I’ve lived in five states. If you could be any superhero, which superpower would you want? I would want to be Spiderman because he can jump a lot and he can go back and forth. What would you do if you won the lottery? I would use it for my Photo submitted family and then I would probably donate some of it. If you could play any other sport, which would you play? I would play soccer. I played for five or six years. What is one thing on your bucket list? To make the Olympic Trails or go to Greece. If you could be any animal, which would you be? I would be a dolphin because I like water and they’re always in the water. Interview by Sports Editor Michal Dwojak This Week In ... SPARTANS Varsity Athletics FOOTBALL ■Sept. ■ 20 - hosts Hersey, 7 p.m. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL ■Sept. ■ 19 - hosts Evanston, 6 p.m. ■Sept. ■ 24 - at New Trier, 6 p.m. ■Sept. ■ 26 - at Niles West, 6 p.m. BOYS GOLF ■Sept. ■ 19 - hosts Evanston, 4 p.m. ■Sept. ■ 21 - hosts Wheeling, 8 a.m. ■Sept. ■ 23 - at New Trier, 4 p.m. Central Suburban League South Division Glenbrook North 3-0 overall, 0-0 conference Evanston 1-2, 0-0 Maine South 1-2, 0-0 New Trier 1-2, 0-0 Glenbrook South 0-3, 0-0 Niles West 0-3, 0-0 Olympic From Page 49 Team Princeton come back from a 17-14 deficit, hitting clutch 2-pointers as part of an unanswered 7-0 run to win 21-17 over a gritty 3BALL Chicago team that had taken the qualifier title in Chicago a day earlier. “It’s funny how basketball works. I didn’t make a lot of 2’s until the semifinals,” said Hummel. “It’s a credit to my team who found me open, and the ball was going in.” Both Hummel and Craig GIRLS GOLF ■Sept. ■ 19 - at Loyola Academy, 4 p.m. ■Sept. ■ 21 - at Deerfield, 1 p.m. ■Sept. ■ 23 - hosts Fremd, 4 p.m. ■Sept. ■ 26 - hosts Deerfield, 4 p.m. GIRLS TENNIS ■Sept. ■ 19 - at New Trier, 4:30 p.m. ■Sept. ■ 21 - at Power 8 Invite, 8:30 a.m. ■Sept. ■ 24 - hosts Glenbrook South, 4:30 p.m. ■Sept. ■ 26 - at Niles West, 4:30 p.m. 2019 Standings BOYS SOCCER ■Sept. ■ 19 - at New Trier, 7 p.m. ■Sept. ■ 24 - hosts Evanston, 7 p.m. ■Sept. ■ 26 - at Maine South, 7 p.m. GIRLS SWIMMING AND DIVING ■Sept. ■ 20 - at Deerfield, 5 p.m. ■Sept. ■ 21 - hosts Glenbrook North Sprint Classic Diving, 9 a.m. ■Sept. ■ 21 - hosts Glenbrook North Sprint Classic, 1 p.m. BOYS CROSS-COU<strong>NT</strong>RY ■Sept. ■ 21 - at Warren Invite, 9 a.m. GIRLS CROSS-COU<strong>NT</strong>RY ■Sept. ■ 21 - at Warren Invite, 9 a.m. ■Sept. ■ 24 - hosts Evanston/New Trier, Niles West, 4:30 p.m. CCL/ESCC Blue Division Mount Carmel 3-0, 0-0 Brother Rice 2-1, 0-0 Loyola Academy 2-1, 0-0 Marist 2-1, 0-0 Moore of Team Princeton came into today’s regional action ranked among the top 10 U.S. players in FI- BA’s 3x3 world rankings. Another six players from the USA’s top 70 were also on display, including Canyon Barry of Gator Elite, who won gold alongside Hummel at the 2019 FIBA 3-on-3 World Cup and is the son of NBA Hall of Famer Rick Barry. The 3X Regionals are free and open to the public. Additionally, games will be streamed on Twitch at Twitch.tv/NBA. The players are competing to accumulate enough individual FIBA points with the goal of moving on to the Red Bull USA Basketball 3X Nationals in April 2020, where 24 men’s and 24 women’s teams will be on display. From that event, USA Basketball will select four players — not necessarily all from one championship team — for the men’s and women’s teams that will play in Tokyo less than a year from now, should the USA qualify, as 3-on-3 makes its Olympic debut.
northbrooktowerdaily.com sports the northbrook tower | September 19, 2019 | 49 pitching From Page 53 ticed any arm injuries because of pitching. “In our experience, the different motion in fast-pitch softball generally results in far fewer arm issues than it does in baseball,” NGSA President Pat Dunbar says in an email. “We are more likely to have ‘tired’ arms from too much pitching or girls that fatigue from the pressure of pitching versus actual injuries. This would be more true of our higher achieving, travel pitchers.” Researcher Kristin Thomas believes part of the reason why coaches and parents have a hard time opening their minds to the research is the culture of softball. For every player she brought up who suffered an injury, a coach would mention a player who never had any arm trouble. “I feel like they all know that one person and the culture of it, those girls are all pretty tough and reserved,” Thomas said. “The girls aren’t saying anything, they’re in a culture where they’re not going to.” Tekip isn’t against following a pitching limit if that’s what’s recommended, but he can’t say what the reception would be among his fellow softball coaches. Tekip knows coaches will follow suit as soon as USA Softball or a top organization requires coaches to have pitching limits, just like they followed the concussion protocol once its became a mandatory part of a coach’s training. If the research is there and it has long-term benefits to the health of his players, Tekip is completely on board. “To incorporate something like that into a player safety training would be mandatory for coaches, I think would be great.” Not enough evidence The Illinois High School Association didn’t waste any time instituting a pitching limit in baseball for the 2017 season when research from the National Federation of State High School (NFHS) came out that high pitching totals could lead to long-term arm damage. But in softball, there hasn’t been a reason to act. “The IHSA Softball Advisory Committee and the IHSA Sports Medicine Committee have not received any data that would necessitate the need for pitch counts for high school softball in Illinois,” says Tracie Henry, the IHSA’s Assistant Executive Director and softball representative, in an email, Henry mentioned the IHSA reviews the NFHS’ studies locally and determines whether any changes should be made. The NFHS receives its injury information from an outside organization that’s in its 13th year of gathering softball exposure injuries, a sport that has the lowest rate compared to all other sports according to NFHS Director of Sports Sandy Searcy. In the data gathered, the organization tracks the type of injury, how long it takes to come back from the injury, what inning the athlete suffered the injury, what position they played, how old they are and what grade they are in. But, the study doesn’t collect the number of days, when one pitches and the numbers of pitches thrown. “We’ve been conducting the RIO (High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance) survey for over 10 years and it really hasn’t been shown to have adverse injuries, overuse injuries, any trends that we can focus on or point to that would indicate that we should take a closer look at establishing pitch counts for softball,” Searcy said. “I think that’s not the case in baseball ... . In the world of softball, it just hasn’t shown to be an issue.” Searcy admitted the organization doesn’t study the longterm effects of pitching in large amounts, noting that there’s no mechanism for doing so. “The injury data we have on the shoulder and the elbow just haven’t trended toward increasing injuries, but what it doesn’t track those pitchers that are pitching five games in three days, or two games in a day, those kinds of things,” Searcy said. The NFHS maintains a twoway relationship with its members to determine whether some rule changes should be made once a new school year begins. Searcy and her colleagues try to keep a tab on news around the country so they can provide its members with the best injury prevention methods. When it comes to softball and arm injuries, they just haven’t seen much to warrant an edict. “We try to keep our thumb on this so we know what’s going on out there,” Searcy said. “We just haven’t seen it. To be honest, we’re not tracking that criteria.” Looking ahead What needs to happen next in the softball-pitching debate depends on who you ask. Researchers believe they’ve found the genesis of an issue that needs more investigation while those who have been around the sport their entire lives don’t think there’s a reason why the “natural motion” belief should be challenged Youth coaches like Rick Tekip are open to change but haven’t seen a reason for that to happen while newcomers like Kristin Thomas want to see equality in the protection of athletes. “I think what softball needs to do is what baseball did, which is put research looking at pitch counts and looking at it at a bigger level if these female pitchers need the same protections given to male pitchers by limiting pitch counts,” Thomas said. It’s the debate Katie Rossmann has been a part of since she started playing the sport as a young girl. She’s now a coach teaching players how to protect themselves from injuries by pitching with proper technique and following the same icing and stretching habits she started, but she also knows limits should be placed with the addition of including bigger pitching rotations. “They shouldn’t throw over and over again, it’s not healthy,” Rossmann said. She’ll do her best to make her players as lucky as she was. The Varsity: North Shore Podcast Guys recap second week of football Staff Report In this week’s episode of The Varsity: North Shore, the only podcast focused on North Shore sports, hosts Michal Dwojak, Nick Frazier and Michael Wojtychiw recap the third week of football. They recap each of the area team’s games, are joined by Highland Park head football coach David Lindquist, play Way/No Way, preview next week’s action and talk some girls volleyball to finish the episode. First Quarter The three recap the third week of action. Second Quarter Giants coach Lindquist joins the guys to talk about the third game against Buffalo Grove. Third Quarter The guys move on to Way/ No Way, where they make some predictions with girls swimming and diving. Fourth Quarter With week four next, the three preview and make some predictions on the next set of games. Overtime Our hosts go to overtime and talk about the start of the girls volleyball season. Northbrook’s Marver part of potential Olympic 3v3 team Submitted content Half-court action is intensifying to find elite 3-on-3 players to potentially represent USA Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, should the U.S. qualify. At the Red Bull USA Basketball 3X Regionals today at Northeastern Illinois University, the Splash Sisters, including Northbrook’s Jodi Marver, relied on 2-point buckets to roll through the bracket and punch their ticket to the 2020 Red Bull USA Basketball 3X Nationals with a 18-15 victory over Glitter Gang. It was a flood of 2-pointers from all over the court for the group of women, some of whom played basketball at Yale in the Ivy League but were not accustomed to this game format. Find the varsity Twitter: @varsitypodcast Facebook: @thevarsitypodcast Website: NorthbrookTower- Daily.com/sports Download: Soundcloud, iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, PlayerFM, more “We’ve never played in a 3x3 tournament until this weekend,” Martha Glodz said. “We just wanted to win one game, and now we are on our way to nationals.” In all, 18 elite men’s and women’s teams based on points accumulated in the 3X Midwest Region, which was comprised of Red Bull 3X qualifier action in Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland and Milwaukee, made their way to the inaugural Red Bull USA Basketball 3X Regionals today, along with three wildcard teams determined by USA Basketball. Teams earned a spot by placing in the top four of one of the Red Bull 3X qualifiers or by winning other tournaments. Reigning 2019 FIBA 3x3 World Cup MVP Robbie Hummel led a Please see Olympic, 48
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