Volleyball: September 2008 Archives

As we reported on Friday, the Bolingbrook Raiders girls volleyball team will likely be without the services of junior Alexa Alfaro for the remainder of the season.

Alfaro told The Brook Blog in an e-mail on Sunday that the bone scan displayed multiple fractures in her left leg. Despite that, Alfaro is holding out hope that she could get back on the court when the playoffs begin. Regional play begins Oct. 29.

i have multiple stress fracures in my leg. one is on top of my foot, another is on the inside of my shin, and i might have another stress fracture somewhere in my leg. but i know i for sure have two. the dr. & trainers have put me in a walking cast but i still have to use my crutches. I'm out for the season because healing takes about 4-6 weeks ]: unless some miracle happens and im able to play again by the time regionals come along. and im really pushing for that miracle.

Bolingbrook Raiders junior volleyball player Alexa Alfaro will miss the rest of the season due to a stress fracture in her left ankle, The Brook Blog has learned.

Alfaro, who was Bolingbrook's leading hitter as a sophomore, had a bone scan on Sept. 19. The results of that bone scan revealed a stress fracture.

The injury originated when Alfaro was hit in the ankle with a line drive playing softball.

Coach Speak is a regular feature that details all the Bolingbrook Raiders results that coaches see fit to e-mail The Brook Blog. If they add comments, we run them verbatim.

The Bolingbrook Raiders girls volleyball team lost to Andrew on Wednesday night in three games. After the Raiders took the first game 25-15, Andrew won 25-20, 25-22.

Bolingbrook is now 3-10.

We are improving each match. Going into the match, Andrew was 4-0 in the conference . This was the first conference team we took to 3 games. Our team's kill average was the highest all season (32) .The tournament this Friday and Saturday will really help build on last night's success.

The Bolingbrook Raiders girls volleyball team could lose junior Alexa Alfaro for the rest of the season, pending the results of a bone scan of the tibia in her left leg.

Alfaro told The Brook Blog that the injury happened playing softball when a line drive hit her left ankle. After an X-ray did not show any broken bones, Alfaro resumed training.

"It's been two months since the accident and I've been playing on it heavily, like volleyball all the time," she said on Monday night, resting both arms on crutches. "I kept feeling this pain. My ankle was just throbbing and I feel shin splints. I thought maybe I should get checked out by the trainer."

The trainer didn't like the look of a bump above Alfaro's ankle. The trainer (Gina Younce or Mattie Kaminskas, not sure which) referred Alfaro to a doctor who diagnosed "a minimum of a stress fracture, " and ordered the bone scan, which happened on Friday.

"I'm not positive about the stress fracture yet," Alfaro said. "I hoping it's not because I want to be out on the court with my team."