“The unfortunate part is we weren’t supposed to be blocking on that play that she got hit in the head,” Arizona volleyball head coach Dave Rubio said in February 2021.
That play was the one that knocked then-freshman middle blocker/opposite China Rai Crouch out of a match and, ultimately, out of the rest of her freshman season.
“We’ll keep our fingers crossed that she’ll be okay,” Rubio continued that day. “She said she was fine after the game but you never know with these kinds of injuries.”
Crouch still remembers it that way, too.