When Caitlyn Wong asks “why,” she’s accustomed to finding an answer.
Wong’s curiosity and intellectual persistence have helped her become one of the most accomplished students in the UO athletic department, with a grade-point average above 4.0 in biochemistry. But they were little good this spring when Wong, a returning starter at center back for the Oregon soccer team, suffered her second major knee injury in three years.
Having redshirted the 2013 season with a right knee injury, Wong debuted for the Ducks in 2014 and started all 19 games as a redshirt freshman. Then, on April 1 of this year, she tore the ACL in her left knee.