Injured Athletes

Sophia Tarasidis
PrideTime Reporter

“A ​team is only as good as its weakest link.”

This well-known quote is one of the most accurate and realistic quotes that athletes use as a foundation. With games comes injuries and in some people’s mind, these injuries mean the end of a player.  However, here at McMahon, it’s taken a little differently.

“Sitting out at games I think has helped me get a different point of view because I can see where we are making mistakes and how we can fix them,” says Maggie Sovak, a sophomore on the McMahon field hockey team, who currently has torn meniscus in her knee and is currently in a brace.
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Sovak is working hard to get back with her team and hopes that she will be back to playing the sport that she loves. “I look forward to getting back with my team and being back out on the field!” 

Another injured athlete at Brien McMahon High School also had some inputs on what it’s like to have an injury. 
 
“I know how to determine what other teams are doing, so I help my team with techniques and things like that and what to look for,” says Thaddeus Burrus (‘19), a two-way starter and captain of the McMahon football team.

Burrus is not only a key player, but a leader and his injury in no way has stopped him from being one of the leaders that his team needs. “I wanna get back and play against some of the top teams and I want to play against Norwalk High.” 

Burrus is determined to do what he can to get back to helping his team on the field.  When Burrus was 

on the field at the Stamford game, the game he got injured, he had his teammates that helped him through his injury. 

“They rallied around me, told me it was going to be okay, they tried to keep me positive.”  ​