The document discusses basketball and soccer. For basketball, it outlines the most common injuries which include ankle sprains, jammed fingers, and knee injuries. It also lists the basic offensive and defensive skills in basketball. For soccer, it discusses common injuries like ankle, foot, and knee injuries. It also outlines individual techniques needed like passing, shooting, and dribbling. The document concludes by profiling famous basketball players like Kobe Bryant and Lebron James and soccer players Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

1. Name Kate O’Connor
Student Number: 4955706
Teaching Period 1, 2014
COM10003 Learning and Communicating Online
Assessment 2A: Producing an online informational
resource Word limit: 1000 words (+/- 10%) or
equivalent Weighting: 20%

2. Injuries:
The most common seven injures in basketball are:
Ankle Sprains
Jammed Fingers
Knee Injuries
Deep Thigh Bruising
Facial Cuts
Foot fractures
BASKETBALL!

3. Common ways these injures can be prevent are by
having pre-season physical examination, following all
doctor’s recommendations, making sure that you
stretch before and after every training session and
game, maintaining proper fitness and also by paying
attention to environmental recommendations,
especially in relation to excessively hot and humid
weather, to avoid heat and illness. If these injuries
still happen to occur there are many ways to treat
them. For example if you get an ankle sprain it
involves treatment that goes by the acronym RICE
which stands for rest, ice, compression and
elevation.

4. Skills:
There are many skills that are needed to be able to play a
decent game of basketball. There are known to be seven
basic offensive skills in basketball and also basic defensive
skills which are:
THE 7 BASIC OFFENSIVE SKILLS IN BASKETBALL
Players must be able to PASS
Players must be able to CATCH
Players must be able to DRIBBLE
Players must be able to CUT & PIVOT
Players must be able to SHOOT
Players must be able to LAY-UP left and right handed
7.Players must be able to SCREEN

5. THE 7 BASIC DEFENSIVE SKILLS OF BASKETBALL
1.Players must be able play in a correct STANCE
2.Players must be able to COMMUNICATE to help
teammates
3.Players must be able to see the BALL and their
OPPONENT at the same time
4.Players must be able to BOX OUT to rebound
the ball & prevent opponents from rebounding
5.Players must be able to CLOSE DOWN
6.Players must be able to RUN WITH their
OPPONENT
7.Players must be able to BLOCK

6. Superstars:
Kobe Bean Bryant was born on August 23, 1978 and is a very well
known professional American basketball player for the Los
Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He
started playing professional basketball in the NBA at a very young
age, which was as soon as he finished high school. He has been
loyal to his team the Los Angeles Lakers because he has played in
their team his entire career of professional basketball. He has
achieved unbelievable things throughout his career, which consist
of him being a great team player and helping his team to victory in
the NBA championships a massive five times. He has also
personally won many awards such as being a 16-time All star, 15-
time member of the All-NBA Team, and 12-time member of the
All-defensive team. He is most definitely one talented player and
has been ranked very highly throughout his career.

7. Lebron Raymore James was born on December 30, 1984.
He weights a massive 113kg and his height is 6 pft 8,
which is equivalent to 2.03m. He is famous because he is a
well-known professional basketball player in America. He
plays for the team Miami Heat from the National
Basketball association commonly known as the NBA. He
has won two NBA championships, four most valuable
player awards, two NBA Finals MVP awards, two Olympic
gold medals, a NBA scoring title and the NBA Rookie of
the Year Award.

8. Soccer!
Injuries:
There are many different injuries that can occur in soccer,
which is also known as football. Most of these injuries as
you would predict happen to most frequently affect the
legs and feet seeing as you are using them most. Well over
50% of the time the injuries occurred in soccer within the
leg and below. The most common 4 areas of injuries are:
1. Ankle
2. Foot
3. Knee
4. Lower leg.

9. A injury in particular that you do not won’t to occur in
soccer is known as the ACL which stands for Anterior
Cruciate Ligament. This is the most common injury in
soccer. There is also quite a few head injuries that can
occur in soccer including concussions. These are caused
by collisions generally speaking.
Ways in which to prevent all of these injuries are to be
prepared, wear the right protective gear, use good
technique and practices, check out the environment
situation on the day (hot or cold temp), and know
yourself and the sport.

10. Skills:
There are a number of skills and rules needed to be
able to play a game of soccer. Individual techniques
consist of being able to know how to pass
numerous amounts of ways such as inside the foot
and the outside of the foot, being able to shoot,
control the ball, head the ball, run with the ball and
being able to dribble efficiently. You also need to
know attacking play and defensive plays. To be able
to learn these all and play a confident game of
soccer you have to practice them over and over
again until ‘practice makes perfect.

11. Superstars:
Lionel Andres Messi was born on the 24th of June 1987 , therefor
making him currently 26 . He is a current superstar Argentine footballer
who plays as a forward for the Spanish club known as FC Barcelona as
well as the Argentina national team. He is the captain of his country’s
national football team. By the time he had reached the young age of 21
he had already received a FIFA World Player of the World and Ballon
d’Or nomination. When he turned 21, he won the award for both of
these categories. He has won many other awards throughout the years
continuing on from these. When he was 25 years old he became
Barcelona’s all-time top scorer and continuing on from that when he
was 25 he then became the youngest player to score 200 goals in La
Liga’s matches. Lionel Andres Messi is quite regularly referred to as the
greatest player in history by many experts such as coaches and
commentators and is commonly ranked as the best player in the world.

12. Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Averio is a current superstar in the world of
football. He was born on February 1985 making him currently 29 years old.
He is often referred to as Cristiano Ronaldo and is Portuguese footballer
who also plays as a forward for Spanish Club Real Madrid and captains the
Portugal national team. He officially became the most expensive footballer
in history of the sport when he decided to make the move to the team
Manchester Unite o Real Madrid in 2009 in a transfer worth $132 million.
Ronaldo has played and moved from quite a few teams throughout his
football career. In both 2008 and 2013, he won the FIFA/Ballon d’Or award
for best footballer in the world, the first Portuguese player to ever win this
award twice. Carrying on from those awards including some such as the
European Golden shoe award many year FIFA World Player of the Year and
many more. He has made a massive impact in the Football world and he is a
player that will be remembered forever from all of his achievements.

13. Reference:
Football – Soccer injuries (2013) retrieved from
http://physioworks.com.au/Injuries-Conditions/Activities/soccer-
injuries
Home| Better Health Channel (2014) retrieved from
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Socce
r_preventing_injury
STOP sports Injuries | Sports Injury Prevention
http://www.stopsportsinjuries.org/basketball-injury-prevention.aspx
50 selected soccer skills and drills- secrets top sports from (2012-2014)
https://us-soccer.s2s.net/todays-skill/
By Kate O’Connor