Jess Knapp bounced back after ACL injury

CBS Philly reports:

The Penn Quakers women’s basketball team will visit Brown tonight as they come down the homestretch of the 2011-12 campaign.  There are just three games left in the season — and in the career of forward Jess Knapp, whose uplifting senior year has made a permanent impression on the Quaker program.

The 5’11″ Knapp missed her entire freshman season after tearing the ACL in her right knee.  She was able to bounce back, however, to become a key contributor as a sophomore and a junior.

Then she got her senior season off to a really good start and was playing well early in a game in California against San Diego State on December 30th.   That’s when things went off script.

“There was no contact.  I caught the ball sort of near the block.  Broke through, took a dribble, went to jump stop and on the jump stop – it wasn’t really landing on the jump stop, it was sort of like the power up off  of it – and something just went wrong.”

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