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johnschneiderblog · 2 years

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Okemos football out for the season

After being outscored 299 to six and losing all five of its games, the football team a Okemos High School (where our four kids went) threw in the towel for the rest of the season - not out of embarrassment, but for safety reasons.

Local media quoted Okemos Wolves first-year coach Efe Scott-Emuakpor: “We had a few ER visits and kids getting taken off on ambulances ...”

Low participation in Okemos has forced the coach to field younger, smaller, less experienced players. But even in the best of times, football has the highest injury and concussion rates among all sports, says the National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance Study. Injuries to the head/face, ankle, knee and hand/wrist are the most common.

Maybe Okemos students and parents are just ahead of the curve in figuring that out.

(photo by Nick King, Lansing State Journal)

#John Schneider #Okemos HIgh School football team suspends season #low participation #football injuries

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virtualklaus · 3 years

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Okemo Canyon -Wolves Sanctuary

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Okemo%20Canyon/108/20/72

#SecondLife #mainland #sansara #slrr #snowlands #screenshot

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johnschneiderblog · 2 years

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The 'calm wolf'

Personally, I saw nothing particularly insensitive in the Okemos Chiefs. The mascot for Okemos Public Schools was, after all, derived from an Ojibwe (Chippewa) chief.

And the school logo, unlike the Cleveland Indians' Chief Wahoo, was dignified.

But, not knowing what it feels like to be logoed or mascotized, I guess I'm not the best judge of that.

Anyway, after decades of back-and-forth, the erstwhile Okemos Chiefs are now the Okemos Wolves.

It so happens that I'm intimately acquainted with three products of the Okemos School system. I surveyed them on their reaction to the new name and logo. The result:

Justin: "Yeah ... They had to do something ... The wolf is sufficiently ferocious."

Benjamin: "I personally would have gone with a more unique mascot. 'Wolves' is kinda generic. I always thought 'Oaks' or 'Mighty Oaks' could be a pretty good mascot. But I guess trees aren't very intimidating ..."

Caitlin: "I like that it's a calm wolf."

#John Schneider #Okemos public schools #Okemos Chiefs #Okemos Wolves #new mascot and logo #Justin #Benjamin #Caitlin

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