UNC's Cassie Sumfest made U.S. Field Hockey team to cap recovery
Posted Sep 1, 2020
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of Cassie Sumfest’s recovery from knee surgery was convincing her parents she was A-OK. See, there was this event in California — a tryout for Sumfest to maintain her standing in the USA Field Hockey system — and she really wanted to go, even though she was only about nine months removed from tearing her ACL.
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