http://www.wlfi.com reports:
"We were in a scrimmage against ISU and I went to make a move to the basket, and my body went one way and my knee went the other. It just snapped," said Purdue Women's Basketball player Drey Mingo. "I knew immediately. I was just kind of like 'Oh my gosh, is this happening?'"
An ACL tear is one of the most dangerous injuries in sports and among the most common. 200,000 ACL tears occur each year in the United States, and the most likely candidates are women.
"Females, depending what sport they play, are about two to ten times more likely to tear their ACL than males," said Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Robert Hagen.
Dr. Hagen said it's usually the collegiate and professional athletes you hear about tearing their ACL's, but he said that's because of their high profile status. He said the ones in real danger are actually adolescent girls around the age of 13.
"There's some anatomical reasons," said Dr. Hagen. "The area where the ligament attaches is a little smaller in a female. They land differently, if you watch junior high girls playing and boys playing, girls tend to land with their hips straight and their knees straight, where guys land with their knees flexed and their hips flexed."
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