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MIAMI — Bari Gold was never one for tutus.
When she was 4, Roberta Gold gave in to her daughter’s competitive spirit and enrolled her in a local soccer program. While the rest of the girls picked daisies on the field, Bari played fiercely against her opponents. She joined a travel team at 9 and worked her way through school and club teams as a center back.
The first time she was hit in the head with a ball last December, the varsity junior captain of the Palmetto Senior High School team complained of a headache but blamed it on dehydration. Two games later, she was hit in the head again. Bari, 17, couldn’t read the words on her U.S. history test and even walked into the wrong classrooms the next day.
“It felt like I was dreaming, but all the time,” she said.
Just two weeks ago, she was clocked in the head for a third time at recruiting camp and had to fly home.
While researchers, the media and even Hollywood with the movie “Concussion” have spent time and money…
