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What He Wrote on the Mirror
11/13/2026 10:00:00 AM | Football
Two knee surgeries and a goal written on his mirror later, Ibrahim Diawara will walk out on Senior Day as a Coastal Carolina captain
Ibrahim Diawara had only been at Coastal Carolina for two and a half weeks when his right knee gave out.
The previous fall, he felt it pop while making a tackle against Kutztown on a cold, wet day. He played through the pain for the rest of the season at Division II Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, then transferred to Coastal.
He barely knew his new teammates when he found out he had a torn meniscus. He talked it over with his family and decided to have it repaired. That meant missing all of spring practice.