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Originally Posted by bbcof83
Sad. Last season I had a player take an elbow to the temple while trying to take a charge. He fell backward and slammed his head on the floor and went into convulsions immediately. It was really scary.
Praying for his son and family.
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I had a GV game last night where a girl hit her head on the floor. The level of play was pretty poor, but pretty evenly matched. The home team managed in the final quarter to pull away a little. HC puts in some JV player to eat up the last couple of min. V team gets ball into front court and is immediately pressured. Reverses dribble so her body is between the ball and the defender coming to me as trail table side. Defender reaches across offensive players body in an attempt to bat the ball. She blocks offensive players body, feet get tangled, they fall to floor. She lands on her butt falls back and smacks head hard. I blow whistle signal block. She rolls over and is hurt pretty bad. I signal for the coach to come to his player. She was on the ground for quite awhile. When she came to her feet she could barely walk. Finish game an on the way out I see one of my partners chating with the AD. I am pretty sure he through me under the bus. Why I don't know? It was a horrible crash, but not one I could have prevented. I had never worked with either guy and we were mechcanically out of sync at times. Nothing that anyone else would have noticed but us. One guy rarely rotated under the basket as lead, and when someone else did he was out of position a lot of times. I beat myself up over this all the way home. This kind of situation make me hate officiating girls basketball. On my way out of the parking lot the ambulance was arriving at the school. Question: is it appropiate to call the AD who I meet last night and ask how the player is doing? Or should I just leave it alone. Thoughts