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A season, reviewed

What the AD actually put
in front of the board.

Illustrative composite drawn from a one-sport pilot — a girls' soccer programme with prior seasons of recurring lower-limb injury. This is what the review looked like at week 12.

Illustrative composite — not measured outcomes

91%Season availability, up from 67% the prior year
−58%Time-loss injuries, non-contact lower-limb
96%Warm-up protocol compliance across the roster
1.4 daysAverage time from a flag to a recorded clinical decision

Illustrative, drawn to match published secondary-school injury-surveillance and neuromuscular-warm-up research; ask us for the source pack.

The pattern across the season

Flags went up. Injuries went down.

The two lines are supposed to diverge. More athletes logging honestly means more gets caught early — which is exactly why fewer of those reports ever became a time-loss injury.

Weekly flags vs. time-loss injuriesone squad · 12-week pilot
Reports flaggedBecame time-loss

What changed the decision

Three things the AD could finally say.

1
“We can show our work.”Every flag, every escalation, every documented decision — exportable, dated, attributable. The board stopped asking whether the department was managing risk and started asking how to fund expansion.
2
“The starting eleven finished the season together.”Availability, not tactics, was the difference between a squad that peaked in October and one that had to rebuild its rotation in week 9.
3
“Our trainer stopped triaging blind.”A ranked queue instead of a corridor. The time it took to reach a real concern fell from days to hours.

“I went into that board meeting expecting to defend the budget line. I came out being asked which sport we add next.”

Athletic director · pilot programme

Composite pull-quote · pending approval

What happened next

Two more sports, the following season.

The pilot's own numbers were the pitch for expansion — no new sales conversation needed. That is the model: one concerning sport, one season, a review the board actually accepts, then the AD makes the case for the rest of the department on evidence they already have.

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