Protective Eyewear for HS Field Hockey Players Mandated

Some 64,000 high-school field-hockey players will wear protective eyewear starting with the 2011-12 season, according to a post on the National Federation of State High School Associations' website. The NFHS's sports medicine committee believed that the potential for injury warranted the requirement. The NFHS board, therefore, "voted to mandate the use of protective eyewear that meets the current American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard for field hockey." Here's the lingering question: How many other youth field-hockey groups will adopt the NFHS's recommendations.