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Doty to miss upcoming season
Junior guard Caroline Doty will be sidelined for the season after tearing the ACL in her left knee late last month.
It is the third time she has suffered an ACL tear in her left knee. While playing soccer in high school, she tore her ACL which caused her to miss her senior season of basketball at Germantown (Pa.) Academy. In the midst of her best offensive game of the season against Syracuse, Doty tore her ACL forcing her to miss the rest of the 2008-09 season.
According to the release sent out by UConn, Doty will undergo surgery to repair the injury in the coming weeks and will begin the rehabilitation process.
“We are all obviously disappointed for Caroline, but we know that she will work very hard to be ready for next season,” said UConn head coach Geno Auriemma in a statement.
Doty will have two years of eligibility remaining.
Doty averaged 8.6 points per game in her freshman year and started all of the 17 games she played in. This past season, Doty started 38 of 39 games and averaged 6.8 points per game as the Huskies went undefeated and won the national championship.
It is the third time she has suffered an ACL tear in her left knee. While playing soccer in high school, she tore her ACL which caused her to miss her senior season of basketball at Germantown (Pa.) Academy. In the midst of her best offensive game of the season against Syracuse, Doty tore her ACL forcing her to miss the rest of the 2008-09 season.
According to the release sent out by UConn, Doty will undergo surgery to repair the injury in the coming weeks and will begin the rehabilitation process.
“We are all obviously disappointed for Caroline, but we know that she will work very hard to be ready for next season,” said UConn head coach Geno Auriemma in a statement.
Doty will have two years of eligibility remaining.
Doty averaged 8.6 points per game in her freshman year and started all of the 17 games she played in. This past season, Doty started 38 of 39 games and averaged 6.8 points per game as the Huskies went undefeated and won the national championship.
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posted by Jim Fuller at
12:54 PM
2 Comments:
While this is a shame for Caroline and a blow to the team, one also has to wonder if it is a good idea for her to continue to try to play at this level, given the risk of ongoing serious injury. The same injury three times might suggest some other problem leading to chronic weakness there.
Poor child. I feel for her and for her parents, whose little girl is hurt (that's how parents look at things like this). I also hurt for UConn, which will now enter the new season having lost 44 points per game in departing and injured players from a team that averaged 81 ppg. It loses half of its rebounding, and roughly 40% of its outside shooting. The hope that Doty would rediscover her outside touch and become a major threat from behind the arc, taking pressure off of Maya, is now gone.
It probably means that Bria Hartley will find herself as the starting point guard, if not on opening day, then at certainly soon thereafter. And with Doty out, and Johnson and Walker nursing tender knees themselves, it will beg the question of whether Geno will use "the big girl" Heather Buck, much more this season. Or if he doesn't, why he won't.
This will certainly be Coach Geno's most trying season since the year after D left. But at least then, no one had any big expectations for that team, because no one with great talent was left on the team. This one still has Maya on it, and she will feel the pressure to do it all herself, especially with every team UConn takes on trying to stop its winning streak and upend the two-time defending national champions.
This year won't be easy.
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