Learning to love the game again after injury

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For as long as she can remember, softball has been a part of Megan Blevens' life.

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Blevens started playing at age 3. By 9, she was on a competitive team.

“We were traveling from state to state to state to state,” the Little Axe senior said. “Pretty much all of my time was spent playing.”

By the time her sophomore fastpitch season rolled around, Blevens could see a possible quick end in sight.

She wasn't having fun on the field, wasn't enjoying all the time she could be dedicating to other — new — things, spent on those weekend trips to play a sport she was growing tired of.

But in a basketball game in January 2010, things changed.

She was playing defense and came down funny.

“My body went one way and my leg went the other,” Blevens said.

Her anterior cruciate ligament was torn.

Her slowpitch softball season was lost.

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