FAYETTEVILLE — A broken leg was the the break Katie Izzo needed in her running career.
Of course, Izzo, then at Cal Poly, didn’t know so at the time. When she broke her right leg in multiple places while running on a stress fracture during the NCAA West Regionals on Nov. 11, 2016, in Sacramento, she didn’t know if she would ever run again.
“My tibia and fibula bones snapped in the middle of the race, and a week later I had surgery,” Izzo said. “It was crazy.”
Doctors inserted a 12-inch titanium rod in Izzo’s leg to help correct the injury.