Player Watch #22 Lauren Young

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Ford Fairlane said:
AFL Talent Ambassador Kevin Sheehan said:
“Strong and aggressive player who excelled as a forward but can play back or midfield. Attacks the ball fearlessly and is almost unbeatable one-on-one with her overhead marking a real feature of her play. Kicked five goals to blow the game apart versus Victoria Metro and finished up averaging three goals across three matches, along with 17.3 disposals, seven marks and three tackles to again be a dominant force after winning the best and fairest award in this competition two years ago when in her 16th year.”

Port Adelaide welcomes Lauren Young
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That was her write up on the AFL website article below in August, about the All Oz team from this year's U/18 national championships. All 23 players get a write up.

There were 8 SA girls who made the ALL Oz team so we might draft/sign 4 or 5 of them. It says 12 of the 23 girls that made the team were bottom-age players, so they aren't available for the 2023 draft. I think 3 of the 12 are from SA.

The championships aren't full play everyone or two divisions, as teams only play 3 games but there are 6 teams SA, WA, Qld, Vic Metro, Vic Country and the Allies.

SA has been undefeated the last 2 years.

Pretty amazing to think this has happened given how poor a state women's footy in SA was when an AFLW comp was suggested in mid to late 2015, and the SA women played in Div 2 at national championships, for many years and weren't always the winner of Div 2 and SA was in Div 2 of the U/18 national championships for several years, before the 2 divisions were amalgamated in 2019.

Shows how much demand was there under the surface from girls in SA to play footy, but the SANFL and its clubs were never proactive enough before 2017, to do much about it.

2021 was an U/19 championships to give the girls who missed out because of Covid in 2020 the chance to play in the national championships and get drafted. That's why it says in Lauren's profile that, she made the U/19 All Oz team and not the U/18 team.


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2023 AFL National Championships U18 Girls All-Australian Team and B&F announced

The AFL has today announced the 2023 AFL National Championships U18 Girls All-Australian Team and best and fairest award.
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Lauren Young is a massive signing as I was reading about her two seasons back before she injured her ACL. She was recognised as the hottest young talent in SA. I was wondering what had happened to her as she appeared to have disappeared off the radar but that was obviously due to her ACL.

Great get for us. Welcome to Port Adelaide Lauren.
 
Playing the first five games with West Adelaide in the SANFLW. Played CHF, dominated the first half to the extent South (last years runners up) had to play two on her for the rest of the night. Absolute star.
 
I saw the incident . Did not look good. No contact and just fell over/knee buckle. This could be very bad news for us.
 

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I guess the AFLW still has a long way to go given that this apparently happened yesterday and we've heard absolutely nothing about it. If Harley Reid was having scans on his knee, the West Australian would have organised a candlelight vigil outside the hospital by now.
 
Terrible luck for Lauren and the team. This is particularly rough given she now won't get to play until nearly two years after we drafted her.

Unfortunately the prevalence of ACLs in AFLW is extremely high. Odds are we'll have at least one player go down every season and there's always the chance it's going to be a good player (see Tahau last season).
 
TeeKray said:
Terrible luck for Lauren and the team. This is particularly rough given she now won't get to play until nearly two years after we drafted her.

Unfortunately the prevalence of ACLs in AFLW is extremely high. Odds are we'll have at least one player go down every season and there's always the chance it's going to be a good player (see Tahau last season).
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I’ve also noticed it seems quite high without looking at actual statistics to back up if it happens at a far greater rate, but it appears so.

Again, without knowing the stats I also have the impression the men’s game suffered more acls in the past than now (tho don’t think at the same rate as the women’s game).

I also wonder what it’s like in other women’s sports. I do think the wnbl does have a fair share of injuries but my perception is it’s not at as great a rate over the nbl as what the aflw is over the afl.

I suspect the part time nature (also having to work jobs I believe?) of the aflw is a massive influence over the rate of injuries but again a guess by an outsider.
 
philthy05 said:
I’ve also noticed it seems quite high without looking at actual statistics to back up if it happens at a far greater rate, but it appears so.

Again, without knowing the stats I also have the impression the men’s game suffered more acls in the past than now (tho don’t think at the same rate as the women’s game).

I also wonder what it’s like in other women’s sports. I do think the wnbl does have a fair share of injuries but my perception is it’s not at as great a rate over the nbl as what the aflw is over the afl.

I suspect the part time nature (also having to work jobs I believe?) of the aflw is a massive influence over the rate of injuries but again a guess by an outsider.
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I think netball has more than basketball due to the way they have to stop.
 
TeeKray said:
Terrible luck for Lauren and the team. This is particularly rough given she now won't get to play until nearly two years after we drafted her.

Unfortunately the prevalence of ACLs in AFLW is extremely high. Odds are we'll have at least one player go down every season and there's always the chance it's going to be a good player (see Tahau last season).
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A March 2022 article
www.abc.net.au

Why AFLW players are more likely to injure their ACLs

Gold Coast Sun Jacqui Yorston describes her ACL rehabilitation as the 'most painful thing I've ever been through'. Kate O'Halloran speaks to the experts on why AFLW players are sustaining injuries at higher rates than men.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au

According to Professor Crossley, the differences in the conditions of men's and women's sport are part of what makes it difficult to understand why AFLW players are sustaining ACL injuries at higher rates than men.

While the exact ratio has fluctuated significantly, at one point in the early seasons, AFLW players were up to 9.2 times more likely than AFL men's players to injure their ACLs. Since then, the ratio has broadly stabilised at anywhere between four and six times more likely. Most promisingly, in 2021, ACL injuries in AFLW were at an all-time low. In 2022, however, these types of injuries have, once again, trended upwards.

Professor Crossley warns that such figures need to be taken in context. "They are small numbers and we just don't have enough years of data to know the true incidence," she says.

"But if you look at basketball, volleyball, European handball … the rates are about two to two and a half times higher than men".
Professor Crossley qualifies this by saying that the discrepancy applies when "you do nothing", meaning, when no intervention is applied to address the gap. "It's still way too high," she says. "We need to get the rates down."
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Aaron Fox is a researcher at Deakin University's Centre for Sport Research and says the research his team has done demonstrates the complex interplay of both modifiable and non-modifiable factors. For example, one difference his team has noted is that AFLW players are injuring their ACLs in different game-day scenarios than men.

While men often injure their ACLs in contested marking situations, one Deakin study showed that AFLW players frequently did ACL injuries in "non-contact" situations, such as when players have to react to an opponent changing direction.

"We concluded that there was this defensive nature to the way injuries are occurring in AFLW," Dr Fox says. "So our hypothesis is that putting them in an unanticipated decision-making scenario is going to increase the load placed on the knee."

This, says Dr Fox, is a classic example of where teasing apart the reason for gendered differences gets so tricky. Australian Rules Football is a "360 degree sport", he explains, involving many changes in direction.

"The more experience you have in that environment, the better you're going to be able to react to those things going on around you," Dr Fox says. With fewer women having grown up playing Australian rules football until recently, this means men are often better socialised to deal with the unique directional nature of the sport.

What this doesn't mean is that women's knees are inherently more susceptible to injury.

For example, Dr Fox points to research that shows that when it comes to dance — a sport many more girls participate in at a young age — men and women are equally likely to do their ACLs. Such data, he says, supports the idea that the developmental opportunities provided to girls and women to participate in certain sports "have a significant impact [on likelihood of injury] down the track."

"Your upbringing, your training environments and your access to staff and facilities all have an impact on the way you move," Dr Fox says.
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
A March 2022 article
www.abc.net.au

Why AFLW players are more likely to injure their ACLs

Gold Coast Sun Jacqui Yorston describes her ACL rehabilitation as the 'most painful thing I've ever been through'. Kate O'Halloran speaks to the experts on why AFLW players are sustaining injuries at higher rates than men.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au

According to Professor Crossley, the differences in the conditions of men's and women's sport are part of what makes it difficult to understand why AFLW players are sustaining ACL injuries at higher rates than men.

While the exact ratio has fluctuated significantly, at one point in the early seasons, AFLW players were up to 9.2 times more likely than AFL men's players to injure their ACLs. Since then, the ratio has broadly stabilised at anywhere between four and six times more likely. Most promisingly, in 2021, ACL injuries in AFLW were at an all-time low. In 2022, however, these types of injuries have, once again, trended upwards.

Professor Crossley warns that such figures need to be taken in context. "They are small numbers and we just don't have enough years of data to know the true incidence," she says.

"But if you look at basketball, volleyball, European handball … the rates are about two to two and a half times higher than men".
Professor Crossley qualifies this by saying that the discrepancy applies when "you do nothing", meaning, when no intervention is applied to address the gap. "It's still way too high," she says. "We need to get the rates down."
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Aaron Fox is a researcher at Deakin University's Centre for Sport Research and says the research his team has done demonstrates the complex interplay of both modifiable and non-modifiable factors. For example, one difference his team has noted is that AFLW players are injuring their ACLs in different game-day scenarios than men.

While men often injure their ACLs in contested marking situations, one Deakin study showed that AFLW players frequently did ACL injuries in "non-contact" situations, such as when players have to react to an opponent changing direction.

"We concluded that there was this defensive nature to the way injuries are occurring in AFLW," Dr Fox says. "So our hypothesis is that putting them in an unanticipated decision-making scenario is going to increase the load placed on the knee."

This, says Dr Fox, is a classic example of where teasing apart the reason for gendered differences gets so tricky. Australian Rules Football is a "360 degree sport", he explains, involving many changes in direction.

"The more experience you have in that environment, the better you're going to be able to react to those things going on around you," Dr Fox says. With fewer women having grown up playing Australian rules football until recently, this means men are often better socialised to deal with the unique directional nature of the sport.

What this doesn't mean is that women's knees are inherently more susceptible to injury.

For example, Dr Fox points to research that shows that when it comes to dance — a sport many more girls participate in at a young age — men and women are equally likely to do their ACLs. Such data, he says, supports the idea that the developmental opportunities provided to girls and women to participate in certain sports "have a significant impact [on likelihood of injury] down the track."

"Your upbringing, your training environments and your access to staff and facilities all have an impact on the way you move," Dr Fox says.
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Thanks for posting.

The stuff about dance and acls being more or less equal is very interesting.
 
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