ACL injuries are not discriminatory. Even the toughest, most talented competitors can be affected. In her book, Sum It Up, Pat Summitt can clearly recall the day she tore her anterior cruciate ligament. Summitt played college basketball from 1970-74 and went on to play in the Olympics. In January of 1974, Summitt and UT-Martin were taking on Austin Peay. Her parents and hometown friends had come to watch her play. Instead they saw, as Summitt describes, the worst moment of her career. She went and grabbed a rebound off the backboard. She came down and as she turned to pass the ball, another player clipped her knee. With all of her momentum going one way and her knee going the other, she crumpled to the court. She describes feeling a searing
