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As strength and speed outpace skill, devastating knee injuries affecting younger athletes

Three-sport athlete Chris Crotinger was poised to have a big junior year, but in just the second week of the fall football season, his dreams snapped.

“I was just running and this ground is kind of uneven,” Crotinger said of the practice field behind Marshfield High School. “I just took a bad plant with my left knee and I just felt it give way, and it was all tears from there.”

Crotinger led Marshfield in tackling as a sophomore in 2014. He played the season opener against Ava in 2015 but suffered a devastating injury in the first practice after the first game.