Soccer as bad as football for concussions?

The Winston-Salem Journal is doing a series of articles on high school and young athletes getting concussions. Here’s an eye-opening statistic:

Football has been at the forefront of the national discussion regarding head injuries in recent years, but it’s actually the other football that is just as dangerous to high school athletes.
In particular, girls’ soccer players suffer concussions at a higher rate than football players, according to statistics from the National Federation of State High School Associations from the 2013-14 season.

In a population of 374,565 players across the nation, there were an estimated 55,598 concussions — a rate of 14.8 percent. Football players suffered concussions at a rate of 13.5 percent in 1,094,949 players.

You can read the rest of the article here. The introductory piece in the series is available here.