Being Patient
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June 26 2020
School Sports: Cognitive Testing, High Risk and High Rewards
The August before my junior year of high school, I spent time training for field hockey preseason, a week of rigorous practices in the summer heat.
After two years of playing for the varsity team, I thought I knew every step to be cleared for the first practice. But this year, I learned, there was a new requirement: cognitive testing. On a preseason weekday morning at 8 a.m. all members of my team turned up to take an ImPACT test — a series of memory based digital quizzes, using shapes, pattern