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Description: High impact loading common in some sports affect bone structure that may influence bone strength across a lifetime. A within-subject controlled model for studying lower limb bone adaptation to loading is needed especially in females. Weatherholt and Warden (2016) examined male jump athletes as a potential model reporting small side-to-side bone strength differences in the tibia. The fibula only shares 6.4% of weight distribution with the ankle joint in neutral (Takebe et al, 1984). The relative disuse of the fibula may make it more responsive to increased loading. Volleyball may serve as a with-in subject model of the lower limb due to the high-impact jumps that are common in the sport.