While her teammates and coaches hid from sun under a white tent at halftime of Temple’s regular-season opener with Fairleigh Dickinson University, senior defender Paula Jurewicz could be seen in front of her team’s bench, stretching and testing the limits of the brace on her right knee.
She twisted, bended, jumped and did seemingly everything in her power to keep herself limber.
It’s been nearly 10 months since she tore the ACL in her right knee during an American Athletic Conference loss to Memphis last October.
“I definitely want to try and warm up after sitting down for a while,” Jurewicz said.