Women’s World Cup and ACLs

Hi Everyone! So the WC starts next Tuesday. Although the games will unfortunately be aired during the morning hours hopefully the dedicated fans will tune in. I will be acting as the US Insider working from Bristol along with Julie Foudy, Rob Stone and Tony DiCicco. The first game begins 9/11 at 5 a.m. on ESPN 2 against N. Korea. Followed by the Sweden game on ESPN at 5 a.m on 9/14 and the Nigeria game for all you who want to sleep a few extra hours will air on ESPN at 8 a.m on 9/18.

Of course I wish that I were in China along with my teammates and on the field but this is second best. Hopefully the US will take care of buisness and I will join them for the Olympics next year in Bejing. The knee is coming along great. Just rehabbing and trying to get my fitness base back so I can be ready for camp in January. I have recieved a lot of emails asking advice on how to recover or prevent future acl injuries. I don't have a solution unfortunately. This is my first time with this injury and hopefully my last. It doesn't appear that there is really much you can do to prevent this injury especially in females which it happens so often. I always thought I would be the last athlete to sustain this type of an injury based on my body type. I thought my quads and hamstrings were well proportioned and relatively strong so even I have no idea as to why it happened and neither do the Doctors. There are so many studies out there and the only postive is the recovery time is twice as fast today. I honestly just feel like all you can do is have a postive attitude, do as much rehab as possible and don't rush it which can cause set backs. Wish I had a better answer.

Anyway just enjoying a few days before heading to Bristol for the rest of the month. I will try to blog soon! Talk soon. GO USA!