UConn women’s basketball’s awful injury luck has continued, even on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Amid a dominant tournament at the U19 World Cup in Madrid, redshirt freshman Jana El Alfy went down with an apparent non-contact injury in Egypt’s final game. On Monday, the Egyptian Basketball Federation announced that she suffered an Achilles tear and will return immediately to the United States to undergo surgery.
After missing a free throw, El Alfy took a step toward the ball and immediately went down. She needed to be helped off the court in a wheelchair. There are no updates on her status at the moment.