One beautiful spring morning
in April, the Arkansas Hoopsters went to Atlanta, Georgia to play basketball in
an NCAA event. We were down two, with eight minutes and twenty-seven seconds
left to go in the second half of the game. The Lady Trojans, from St. Louis
were trying to hold the ball and trying to keep the Hoopsters from scoring, because
they knew once the Hoopsters started scoring, they would lose. Haven Robertson,
guarding the point guard at the moment, was at the top of the key, playing the best
defense in her entire life. Whitney was in help side guarding the ball and her
man. Over hearing her coaches, Coach Ricky and Coach Crockett, screaming at her
“GO TRAP THE BALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”, she did. Then a terrible accident happened.
Whitney, jumped up and the point
guard from the Lady Trojans went to pass the ball to the girl Whitney was
guarding in help side. As the point guard from their team passed the ball, the
point guard’s right knee, kneed Whitney’s left outer knee and her ACL popped.
At the moment, she did not know what had popped, all she knew was the she
screamed and cried like she was murdered. Reagan Dodd, her teammate ran over to
her as she was on the ground to make sure she was okay. The coaches also ran
over there as she laid screaming her lungs out because she was in so much pain.
Coach Crockett finally got her to stop screaming and crying then carried her
back to the bench and sat her down. Everyone tried to make Whitney leave the
game, but she wanted to stick around and watched how it ended. All the Hoopster
moms, got Whitney ice, Ibuprofen, and lots of support that everything was going
to be okay. After the Hoopsters had won the game, Whitney, her aunt and uncle,
and mother and father drove over to another gym to see a personal trainer. The trainer
said her knee was a lot looser than it needed to be. The next day, Whitney and
her family drove to Memphis to see Dr. Fredrick Azar and he said Whitney had torn
her ACL.
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