Gemma Potter - Appreciating Every Moment
Rupturing two ACL’s in a row is a pretty extraordinary thing to happen to an athlete but Gemma Potter is back, healthy and is appreciating every moment right now with the Canberra Capitals.
There’s many sides to a serious injury in sport, well, two serious injuries if we’re talking about specifics to Gemma Potter.
One side is the comeback story, but two is the ability to move on from it and put it in the past. The balance of moving on and keeping it positive but also reflecting on it as part of journey must be a challenging thing, even for someone like me who was about to talk to Gemma about it.
A brutal sequence of injuries
I was super keen to get an insight into what it was like to rupture not one, but two ACL’s in a matter of years but also wanted to keep the positive energy alive, much like her Canberra Capitals team which we will touch on later.
Gemma’s first ACL was done in May 2021 while competing in the National Championships.
Fast forward to the beginning of the 2022/23 WNBL season where she had fully recovered and whack, in round one it happens again.
Super rough. That moment must have been so tough to accept.
To work your way back, the grind, sitting on the sidelines all those months just waiting, only for it to happen again in your literal first game back is a horrible storyline.