The only thing stopping Briana Scurry from taking her own life was thinking of the woman who gave her life. Though their place in it has mostly gone unexplored, untold, female athletes have their own stories to tell. The image has become increasingly familiar: the mothers, wives, girlfriends, sisters, daughters, cast in supporting, caregiving roles, mourning and questioning why this happened to the men close to them who have suffered playing a game they love.īut women are not only on the tragic periphery of CTE and head-trauma issues. Mostly, they've been quoted in articles as advocates, as confidantes.
Over the past decade, women have played a major role in the narrative of men's football brain trauma. Ann McKee, the director of the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank, whose research has been integral to our expanding understanding of CTE. They can't get past football," says neuropathologist Dr. "They're definitely still focused on football. But very little is known about what that means for the future, because researchers are hardly studying the long-term consequences of repetitive hits over time in women. Girls soccer players, in particular, have been found to be about as likely to suffer concussions as boys football players-and three times more likely than boys soccer players. Yet, we know that female athletes have endured repetitive blows to the head, too. Forty percent have been found to have CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease found in people with a history of repetitive brain trauma. People now reduced to letters and numbers.Īlmost all were younger than age 32 when they died.
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