Toughness: Clemson coach returns to action a few days after emergency surgery

Amanda Butler was back on the court just a few days after emergency surgeryCLEMSON – Toughness is making the game-winning shot at the buzzer, hitting the free throws to ice the game, taking a charge in the low block or fighting for an offensive rebound.

Toughness is running up and down the sideline of Littlejohn Coliseum three days after having an emergency appendectomy.

Amanda Butler is tough, and she doesn’t know any other way.

Butler, Clemson’s women’s basketball head coach, was out on the recruiting trail last weekend when she started feeling like something was wrong and it didn’t take long for her doctor realize her appendix needed to come out. For most people, recovery from an…