Blog 5b: Science Fair Proposal

1.       Soccer player injuries in the leg area

 

2.       Driving Problem: Soccer Players getting injured during a game in the leg area with either bone fractures or torn ligaments.

Quote: “In order for athletes to remain in top physical condition, they need to train properly and also know how to manage and treat the various injuries that are bound to occur while playing in highly demanding games and over long seasons that often become year round regimens.”

 

Citation: Deegan, Michael. “Common Soccer Injuries.” Fcportland.org. Therapeutic Associates Hillsboro Physical Therapy. Web. 26 Sept. 2012

 

3.       Hypothesis: If you do not stretch and warm up properly, then you will be more susceptible to injuries in the leg area.

 

4.       I will gather around 12 people in order to participate in my experiment. I will have a control group of 6 and an experimental group of the same number. There will be training sessions in which the control group will do certain exercises for a set time in a certain order while the other group will do the exercises in a random order each time we meet for the same amount of time. I will be recording the data on a table. I will then watch them play actual games and I will use my eyes as a tool and observe what players get injured and try and see how they get injured.

 

5.       Engineering Research & Applications

Blog 5a: Science Fair Problem Statement

1. Senior Topic: Soccer & Performance

2. Problem in my topic: Soccer players getting injured during a game in the leg area with either bone fractures or torn ligaments. I am going to observe 2 different groups of players and see what they do to prepare themselves for the game. one group will do things in a certain order while the other group will do them in a random order. At the end I will calculate how many injuries each group had.

3. Problem in my topic: There are very many people who play this sport at a high competitive level worldwide without playing professionally, making it harder to stand out amongst other players by just being "good" from an athletic point of view and make it to the highest levels of competitive soccer, which are college soccer and playing on a professional team. To solve this problem I would need to look up some professional soccer players' stories of how they made it the the highest of all competitive levels, or interview some players and compare and contrast the different factors among them to see which were the most consistent that lead them to play at the highest ranks of soccer competition.