Sometimes it’s Dairy Queen. Maybe a bottle of water or a text that reminds her she’s doing well. Teammates shower her with Bible verses and those help in a different way.
“Maybe I don’t really want anything, but the thought counted,” Wichita State volleyball player Jenny Whitledge said.
Whitledge, a junior outside hitter from Tonganoxie, is almost two weeks out from surgery to heal a devastating injury suffered last month in practice. The routine act of jumping and landing on her left leg ended with torn anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments, two torn meniscus and bone bruises to her tibia and femur.