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Early Tuesday afternoon, Stanford junior Kristin Folkl didn't have a care in the world. Her team had just been given a number one seed in the NCAA Tournament, and there was the junior Folkl fielding questions, not so much about her team's first-round opponent, but rather about her potential professional basketball career...
...even imagine it at all," said Folkl about teammate Vanessa Nygaard's torn ACL. "The extremely mild ankle sprain that I got I thought was hard to deal with. I can't begin to understand what it would be like to have a major part of your knee torn apart...
...hours later, Kristin Folkl began to understand...
...midst of a routine fast-break drill during practice, Folkl drove to the basket for a right-handed layup and began screaming in pain. Initially Coach Tara VanDerveer thought, or more likely hoped, that her sixth-man had merely reaggravated her broken hand, but then she realized the severity of the situation...
Thus, with her small forward out of the rotation, VanDerveer needed to make a quick change before facing Harvard on Saturday. It was a no brainer; everyone knew what would happen. Folkl, the team's leading scorer, rebounder and blocker would be given the starting nod. Nygaard's loss would be hard, but Folkl would soften the blow...