Incidence of injury in Texas girl's high school basketball

We studied the incidence of injury in girl’s varsity bas-ketball to characterize injury demographics in high school athletics. We defined a reportable injury as one that occurred during organized practice or competition, resulted in either missed practice or game time, re-quired physician consultation, or involved the head or face. We prospectively evaluated the athletes on team rosters during the 1993 to 1994 season from 100 ran-domly selected Class 4A and 5A Texas public high schools that employed full-time certified athletic train-ers. The 890 student athletes from 80 schools ranged in age from 14 to 18 years. Four hundred thirty-six injuries were reported for a rate of 0.49 per athlete per season. Injury risk, calculated on the basis of exposur