Q&A spring tryouts

School trainer, Dakota Orlando, talks about ways to recover from spring sports tryouts.

Q: What are some ways students should prepare their bodies for tryouts?

A: “[Students] should’ve been working out over the winter. I am about to see a lot of over-use injuries in a way, or weakness injury, because they didn’t work out at all over the winter and they are about to go to tryouts and go 110% and their body is going to break down pretty fast because it is not used to it. It hasn’t built up that stamina. So the best way to prepare for tryouts is [to] at least be active at least 2-3 times a week for whatever you are training for, try to make it specific for that.”

Q: What should students do to de-stress from tryouts?

A: “It just kind of depends on you. If you find peace just relaxing with friends or just watching Netflix or a movie or [even just] the fact of being in a calm quiet place. Just being happy where you are at in your own self. Just go do something fun, maybe go outside and walk around. It is kind of hard in the springtime because the weather is so crazy to find a good way to get outside but once it starts getting warm just having fresh air really helps too.”

Q: What do you recommend to students with previous injuries during tryouts week?

A: “Depending on the injury, if it is something where it’s just maintenance where you kind of get in here and get stretched and warmed up, do what you need to. Even if you just need prewrap. Also, afterward ice, stretch, or whatever needs to be done. If you had an injury before, it is definitely maintenance you want to stay on top of it. Don’t get lazy with it because it is a weakness and you want to get stronger. It takes time to maintain.”

Q: What should students do to recover from tryouts?

A: “I would highly advice, even though it’s cold out right now, to do aquatic therapy or yoga, just like an active rest activity, nothing too strenuous but enough to keep the lactic acid from building up.”

Q: What is the best way to treat muscles sores?

A: “[The] best treatment is stretching, foam rolling, you can heat before activities, biking, heat pack, stretch after you are warmed up. Then do a nice cooldown, whether that is stretching again, just relaxing or if you need to you can ice after. But foam rolling and stretching are your best things to do.”

Student-athletes discuss ways that they recover from their tryouts.

Junior, Anna Parker talks about how she recovers from soccer tryouts.

Q: What spring sport are you trying out for?

A: “I am trying out for soccer.”

Q: What do you do after tryouts to recover?

A: “This is the first year I tried this, I got chocolate milk after tryouts because Coach Kelly said that it would help you recover faster. And I did it after the first day because I was already really sore and out of shape, so I was like I’ll take whatever I can get to recover faster so I thought I’d try it.”

Q: What do you do when your muscles get sore?

A: “I go home and I stretch and I take a bath, like a really hot bath. And then I don’t really do much after that, just drink water.”

Sophomore, Ryan Staehr talks about how he relaxes with his friends after tryouts.

Q: What spring sport are you trying out for?

A: “I am trying out for lacrosse.”

Q: What do you do after tryouts to relax as a team?

A: “Me and my friends go to Chick-fil-a after practice to eat and talk.”

Q: For you, what muscles get the sorest? What do you do to help with sore muscles?

A: “For me, my quads are the [sorest] and I rolled them out to get rid of them being sore.”