For much of last season, the first injury-free campaign of her North Carolina women's lacrosse career, Olivia Ferrucci was just trying to readjust.
A freshman when UNC won the 2016 NCAA championship, she appeared in only nine games before sustaining a season-ending injury. She then sat out the entire 2017 campaign due to a left knee injury and subsequent surgery. So, in her return to the field last season, she had to reacclimate herself to playing lacrosse.
Just as, if not more, important, though, was developing chemistry with her teammates, many of whom she hadn't played with before.