The Temple News · Nov 17, 2015
With new outlook, Kerkhoff ‘grateful’ for broken leg
The wind was just loud enough to mute her daughter’s screams, but Patti Kerkhoff knew something wasn’t right.
When she looked down from the bleachers at her youngest of three children, Shauni Kerkhoff, who was lying facedown across the grass on the University of Pennsylvania’s home field Sept. 4, Patti wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt.
“I’ve always told her, ‘Unless you’re profusely bleeding or something, or your body is pointing the wrong direction, I’m not going to panic,’” she said last week.
Temple’s senior goalkeeper collided with Penn’s freshman midfielder Allie Trzaska as the two were racing toward the ball, which was played between them in the box.