When practice ends each day for the Rock Bridge girls basketball team, the players head off in all directions. Some stay to shoot or talk to their teammates, while others head to the locker room to shower and change clothes.
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Carmen Boessen's routine is a bit different. The senior co-captain walks down the steps and passes the locker room doors. She enters a room filled with padded tables. A sign on the wall outside the door reads "Training/Film Room." No one is there. She walks to the back of the room and fills two plastic bags with ice, carries them to one of the tables and sits down. Boessen ices her knee for 15 minutes after practice every day.
During a soccer game in mid-June, Boessen tore her ACL in her left knee while dribbling the ball toward the goal. She said she remembers hearing her knee pop and falling to the ground.
"I didn't have pain, but I knew something was so wrong," Boessen said, remembering the moment. "My first thought was, 'Oh my God, was that my ACL? This can't be real.'" Click here to continue reading.
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