He will be back

He will be back.

Adam Sommer, Parkway South standout, tore his ACL in a game last week and is out for his senior season, but I have no doubt, watching this kid play, that he will put the same passion into his rehab that he had put into every minute of practice and games to become a premier guard in the St. Louis area.

I have watched Adam play and he is damn good.  I don't know Adam and I have only talked to him once, after a heckling incident last June at the IAABO Francis Howell Central league in late June.  I actually wrote about him in my AAU blog (https://gramps8851.blogspot.com/2019/06/why-do-we-let-this-happen.html), although I didn't identify him or the team that heckled him incessantly during the game.  He was having a bad day and the hecklers were enjoying putting him down.

That happens often, when you have an extremely good and passionate player.  People want to take him down a notch.  I don't know why?  Jealously or envy? Whatever the reason, I felt someone should have called those kids on their bad behavior.  I felt bad that I didn't speak up at the game.  I wrote the school AD and he replied that it wasn't a behavior they condoned.  I told Adam to keep his chin up.  Keep fighting to be your best.

I had a torn ACL playing softball.  It almost ruined my running career but I rehabbed the knee and kept on training, running a 2:30 marathon and almost making the qualifying time for the US Olympic trials.  You can do a lot of things with a torn ACL with the proper bracing and training.  It might be tougher to play basketball than run a marathon on a bad knee, but I have no doubt that Adam will be back.  He is a competitor.  He will take this rehab on just like he took on becoming one of the best outside shooters in the area.

You didn't let the hecklers get to you on a bad day, Adam.  Don't let this speedbump get in the way of your college dreams.  It's not the end of the world.  You can do it.  I know you will.  Be your Best.

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