Recovery

She has the briefest moment of clarity, this agonizing realization that something is terribly wrong. She had thought of the possibility of just being out a game or two for the sprained MCL or whatever was aching in her knee. She doesn't expect it to hit her like this, because what the doctor just told her is a major injury. The thought that she'll be out for months, possibly even a year, feels like a semi slamming headlong right into her chest. All she can think about is how all of the hard work and effort that she's put in for years is torn apart the second the defender decided to make that challenge and the moment the doctor confirmed her worst fears.Christen Press tears her ACL the first game of the season.