Living With an Injury in High School

Shelbi has participated in band for three years and is one of our color-guard members.

Shelbi tore all the ligaments in her ankle on September 1st of 2017- the very first football game of the school year. “It was in the first few seconds of the marching show and I was doing part of our routine dance and fell on my ankle the wrong way after a jump,” Shelbi said. Weekly doctor visits, various braces, and therapy sessions helped Shelbi get ‘back in the game’. The hardest part of this injury was listening to other people and their comments about her recovery. “I knew what happened to me and how my body was healing. You never know fully about an injury until it happens to you.”- Shelbi