In the fall of 2015, Alyssa Palomino was taking part in her first official practice as a member of the Arizona Wildcats softball team.
She went out into the outfield to do some live reads during batting practice. She went up for a ball, and when she came back down to the ground, something happened to her that had never happened before.
“Went up for a ball, jumped up for it, and landed just on my right knee and it just tore,” she recounted from that day. “Everything in it just shattered I guess.