The moment you walk out onto the practice floor at Mayo Clinic Square, Aerial Powers is almost always the first person you hear.
“Even if you don’t know Aerial, you know she brings that energy,” fellow first-year Lynx Natalie Achonwa said last September after practice. “That’s something we need, especially when you have a team that’s so focused. She really drags it out of us and pushes us to be outside of ourselves.”
But, after Powers spent the 2020-21 offseason rehabbing a right hamstring injury only to strain her left hamstring three games into the 2021 season, while sitting on the sideline, she was the one feeling outside of herself.