It was toward the latter end of November when Ashton Millender, junior guard for DePaul women’s basketball, started to feel pain in the side of her shin during practice.
“At first, it was uncomfortable, but it became a pain as I started to run,” Millender said. “I was just asking myself, ‘What’s wrong?’ At first, we couldn’t figure it out – if it was my toe or my arch (…) I couldn’t pinpoint where it was or anything. I [was]hurting.”
Soon, Millender learned that what she had was a stress reaction on the side of her shin, an injury that accrued over a period of time and needed to be treated by strengthening the area with conditioning.