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Jana El Alfy to miss entire 2023-24 season with Achilles tendon rupture

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UConn women’s basketball’s awful injury luck has continued, even on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Amid a dominant tournament at the U19 World Cup in Madrid, redshirt freshman Jana El Alfy went down with an apparent non-contact injury in Egypt’s final game. On Tuesday, UConn announced that the redshirt freshman will miss the entire 2023-24 season with an Achilles tendon rupture. She’ll undergo surgery at UConn Health “later this week”, according to the school.

After missing a free throw, El Alfy took a step toward the ball and immediately went down. She needed to be helped off the court in a wheelchair.