June 7, 2010 – Cincinnati, Ohio - The Motz Group recently assisted Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center by donating nearly 1,000 square feet of synthetic sports turf for a special study that CCHMC is working on. “The turf will be going directly to schools in the Boone County School District to be used for intervention training for female soccer players” says Jennifer Hauer of CCHMC.
Hauer adds “The beauty of having the turf is that it allows the athletes to have a more realistic and safer prevention training experience. Each piece of turf will have a pattern spray painted on it so that each team has consistent marking for hopping, landing, cutting maneuvers they will be learning during their training.”
Keith Back (orange shirt on left), Gary Phillips (hat), and Zach Burns (blue shirt) of The Motz Group pose with CCHMC staff while donating 819 square feet of turf.
“Females who participate in cutting and landing sports like soccer and basketball suffer anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries at a 2 to 10-fold greater rate than males participating in the same high-risk sports” Hauer explained. “Our previous work shows that lateral knee load and trunk motion can each independently increase ACL injury risk in female athletes. The major objectives of this project are to determine how lateral trunk motion increases knee load in female athletes who are at greater risk of ACL injury and to develop exercise training programs that decrease trunk motion, knee load and ACL injury risk in these high-risk athletes.”
“TMG is excited to assist CCHMC in the important effort to improve the heal
th of student athletes” says Zach Burns of The Motz Group. “Cincinnati Children’s has helped so many young people in our community - including many of our employee’s kids - that we jumped at the chance to be involved.”
th of student athletes” says Zach Burns of The Motz Group. “Cincinnati Children’s has helped so many young people in our community - including many of our employee’s kids - that we jumped at the chance to be involved.”The Motz Group donated a total of 819 square feet of “TMG Non-Filled Indoor Turf” and 384 square feet of a 10 mm rubber pad.
Hauer adds “The beauty of having the turf is that it allows the athletes to have a more realistic and safer prevention training experience. Each piece of turf will have a pattern spray painted on it so that each team has consistent marking for hopping, landing, cutting maneuvers they will be learning during their training.”
The Motz Group specializes in the design and construction of Synthetic and Natural Turf Systems for high school, college and professional teams.
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