> From: Russ Bone <[log in to unmask]>
>
> I must say that I have never seen the training staff at CC as anything
> but very professional and concerned about the athlete's health first and
> foremost.  My wife, who played basketball at CC, would echo this
> sentiment.  Therefore I want to be very careful about how my post is
> seen.  There is a great deal of unknown information about this
> situation, and we certainly aren't privvy to all the data that the
> coaches used to make the game decision.  With 20/20 hindsight, we may
> agree that the risk turned out to be not worth it, but who knows what
> foresight was involved in this decision.  It certainly has been
> (unfortunately) a busy year for the training staff at CC!
 
as some of you know, in addition to my being a devout ice hockey fan,
I'm the NCAA faculty athletic representative at the University of
Colorado at Colorado Springs.  CC is our cross town rival in sports we
have in common (hoops, soccer, volleyball, cross country, tennis).  As
such, I have extended contact with their athletic personnel.
 
It has been my experience that they are a "class" operation in every
sense of that word.  Knowing them, there is no way that I could
believe anybody on their staff (coaches, athletic administrators,
trainers, physicians, or anybody else associated with that program)
would knowingly put a student athlete in danger.
 
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