In March, we wrote a story on the Bullis High School girls
lacrosse team wearing helmets. Head Coach, Kathleen Lloyd, made
it mandatory for every girl on the team to wear helmets after
nine players received concussions the previous season. The
Bullis Bulldogs wore custom rugby helmets. The article (girls
lacrosse helmets) generated a lot of buzz. Today, Newsday
revealed Brown University will be conducting the first helmet
study for girls lacrosse. Brown University in Rhode Island will
be simulating physical play with crash dummies used as the test
subjects. Project director Joseph “Trey” Crisco, a professor of
orthopedics at Brown, states: So we decided to use dummies, like
they use in car crash simulations,” Crisco said. “We have a
model and we will have girls lacrosse players from the [Rhode
Island] area come into our lab and whack away from different
angles. They’ll be whacking on the top of the ‘head’ and the
side of the ‘head.’ They’ll use the tip, the shaft and the
middle of the stick so we can determin