The number one risk factor for injury is a previous injury

Curl potentially out 2 months with wrist surgery

2018

St. Mary’s senior Britta Curl will have a shorter track and field and soccer season than she anticipated.

The three-sport athlete will potentially be out of action two months with wrist surgery.

The injury stems from a broken wrist Britta suffered in the eighth grade.

Britta thinks she can compete in the javelin by the end of the season, but activities where she could fall are off the table.

“It was a decision I had to make for hockey because that’s what I want to be back for next year in college,” Curl said. “It’s not easy because I love track and soccer. I always want to be playing that in the spring.”

This fall, Britta is committed to play hockey at the University of Wisconsin.

 

The radius, one of two bones that connects the elbow to the wrist, is naturally shorter than the ulna. Curl's, however, had stopped growing altogether after the eighth grade break. The remedy was surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where doctors cut Curl's radial bone in half and extended it using a chunk taken from her hip bone.