![]() (Photo courtesy of Camilla Rodriguez Corona)ĭespite these injuries, Corona has not been discouraged. Her toes and the bottom of her feet hurt in the mornings.Ī week later, she found out she had plantar fasciitis – inflammation of a thick band of tissue that runs across the bottom of each foot and connects the heel bone to the toes.Ĭamilla Rodriguez Corona feet heavily taped to help ease the pain of her plantar fasciitis. “I was just nervous about how it would affect my playing skills and I didn’t know if I could still move fast enough.”Īfter going 5-0 to start the season, Corona faced another setback. “At the time I wasn’t scared because I knew I would still be able to play,” Corona said. Eager to play badminton for the Warriors, she was mainly worried about how the injury would affect her performance on the court. The doctor advised Corona to wear a knee brace and just wait it out. ![]() The doctor performed X-rays and that’s when she found out that she had excessive fluid around her patella. After consulting with the athletic trainer and doing stretches on her knee, the pain persisted.Īt this point, two weeks had passed since the accident. She told her coach (Bowman), who realized Corona’s knee was swollen. A week passed before her concerns grew, as her knee hurt when she tried to straighten it. The next day Corona realized her knee was sore, but didn’t think anything of it and kept playing. “I didn’t really want to complain about it, even though it hurt.” “I got up and just walked it off,” Corona said. Her left knee then crashed into her right, pushing it further into the ground. This was not supposed to happen and Corona was dropped from approximately five feet in the air.Ĭorona fell directly on her right knee. Things escalated quickly and another girl who is not currently on the team picked up Corona and ran across the gym with her. However, it was during one of these summer training sessions that an accident caused Corona to sustain the knee injury.īowman ended the session with a team-building exercise – a drama game. She was super committed, worked so hard and just committed to being a great teammate.” “I know she had fun last season and placed low JV, but when she came in the summer she was just on fire. “I didn’t see her becoming this good this fast,” Bowman said. Warriors badminton coach Meg Bowman immediately noticed significant improvement. She then attended the open gym sessions at Westwood High School. However, in the summer of 2022, Corona attended a clinic at the Arizona Badminton Center which focused on improving her strength, conditioning and badminton skills. “I’m not going to lie, I did suck,” Corona said. It was the first time Corona had played with a team at a competitive level. In 2021, Corona played exhibition and JV badminton for the Warriors. Off the court, her knee gives out occasionally and general discomfort affects her daily.ĭespite facing adversity, she currently has a 5-1 record in varsity singles flight two and is ranked at number 13. These injuries have negatively affected some of her on-the-court traits, specifically her speed and movement. ![]() She has been in tremendous pain and rarely complains. (Photo courtesy of Camilla Rodriguez Corona)Įnrique Rupert is an ASU Cronkite School of Journalism student assigned to cover Westwood High School for Ĭamilla Rodriguez Corona has been playing badminton for the Westwood Warriors this season with excessive fluid in her patella (knee) and plantar fasciitis. Camilla Rodriguez Corona on the podium after finishing second in the Birdie Blitz tournament held at Westwood High School.
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