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Establishing normative data can provide clinicians reference points with which to compare their patients, potentially aiding in the development of future injury-risk assessments and injury-mitigation programs.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Objective:\u2003<\/jats:title><jats:p>To establish normative functional performance and limb-symmetry data for high school-aged male and female athletes in the United States.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Design:\u2003<\/jats:title><jats:p>Cross-sectional study.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Setting:\u2003<\/jats:title><jats:p>Athletic training facilities and gymnasiums across the United States.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Patients or Other Participants:\u2003<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 3951 male and female athletes who participated on high school-sponsored basketball, football, lacrosse, or soccer teams enrolled in this nationwide study.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Main Outcome Measure(s):\u2003<\/jats:title><jats:p>Functional performance testing consisted of 3 evaluations. Ankle-joint range of motion, balance, and lower extremity muscular power and landing control were assessed via the weight-bearing ankle-dorsiflexion\u2013lunge, single-legged anterior-reach, and anterior single-legged hop-for-distance (SLHOP) tests, respectively. We used 2-way analyses of variance and \u03c72 analyses to examine the effects of sex and grade level on ankle-dorsiflexion\u2013lunge, single-legged anterior-reach, and SLHOP test performance and symmetry.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results:\u2003<\/jats:title><jats:p>The SLHOP performance differed between sexes (males = 187.8% \u00b1 33.1% of limb length, females = 157.5% \u00b1 27.8% of limb length; t = 30.3, P &amp;lt; .001). A Cohen d value of 0.97 indicated a large effect of sex on SLHOP performance. We observed differences for SLHOP and ankle-dorsiflexion\u2013lunge performance among grade levels, but these differences were not clinically meaningful.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions:\u2003<\/jats:title><jats:p>We demonstrated differences in normative data for lower extremity functional performance during preparticipation physical evaluations across sex and grade levels. 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