New Lenox , Ill. soccer player shoulders burden of comeback from injury
January 31, 2007
New Lenox, Ill., January 31, 2007—Jamie Panfil of New Lenox, Ill. has always been a handful on the soccer field, for her opponents and her mother Marsha, who has been coaching amateur soccer at the club level for several years.
“Jamie is a very aggressive player and she can be quite stubborn to coach,” she said. So stubborn that mom had to kick her daughter off the soccer team when she was 10 years old because she wouldn’t take direction.
But the flip side of stubbornness is determination and Jamie needed every bit of that to recover from a severe shoulder injury that developed when she was in 7 th grade. The junior goalkeeper at Lincoln Way Central High School is competitive by nature and while this trait allowed her to play in pain for several months, it also delayed necessary treatment. Read more
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