Toby Brooks

But it's critical data when navigating similar pain again.

And while she sure didn't choose to end her season with a devastating knee injury, in the process, now she realizes that it was forming her for something greater.

Right.

And I think a lot of people don't really realize that cumulative injuries, like if it's your first, I mean, obviously it's foreign to you.

You don't know how much pain you're going to go through or how long it's going to take.

But you also don't know, you're a little naive to the fact of...

How long or how am I going to be able to come?

And there's a lot of positivity, like you said.

Once you've been down this road three or four or five or 10 times, the cumulative effect really starts to weigh.

And I've seen athletes who faced surgery too with just this grit and deterrent, like I'm going to beat this.

I'm getting back on the floor or the field.

By eight or nine or 10, there's like, is this it?

Am I done?

Am I ever going to be able to return to the athlete I was?

What was that like for you facing kind of the, you know, the cumulative effect of those surgeries?

I love this wisdom from Papa Warren.

Doubt is not going to help.

Literally moments away from her second ACL surgery, drowning in doubts, Sarah's mom shares a truth with her.

Honey, we're here.

We don't have a choice.