Krishawn Tillett is the latest Ayala girls basketball player to suffer anterior cruciate ligament damage. After two of her teammates tore ACLs prior to this season, the senior with a basketball scholarship to Army underwent surgery this week for a partially torn ACL suffered in the Bulldogs quarterfinal playoff victory on Feb. 24.
“She was chasing a girl on a breakaway and when the girl stopped to pump fake and so did Krishawn. That’s when she hyperextended her right knee,” Tillett’s father Daniel said. “It was strange because she came back and played in that game and even played the first 10 minutes of the next game before she said ‘This doesn’t feel right.'”
Tillett’s recovery time is expected to be six-to-eight weeks. The first team all-Sierra League guard averaged 16.4 points, 3.3 assists and 2.4 steals for the Sierra League champions.
