Alexis Peggins

            About a year ago Alexis Nicole Peggins, 16, was playing basketball for the first time after being cleared for an ankle sprain. “I went up for a layup and when I came down I landed poorly on the newly recovered ankle and broke my ankle,” said Peggins. Alexis Peggins of Roanoke, Virginia has had one of the worst injuries of basketball.

            It was an average winter day when Peggins was sent to the hospital in a hurry. When she landed on her ankle not only was it broken but the bone had come out of her skin. Peggins says, “When I hit the floor the pain was so bad that it made me feel sick and I was close to passing out.” She was taken to the hospital quickly and she says, “They put me to sleep and when I woke up it was four hours later and I had a big cast over my leg.”

            Today, Peggins remembers how much that impacted her life and how even if you are cleared you are not 100%. Peggins, a girl born Richmond, with a step- mom, 42, dad, 48, a brother, 29, and a sister, 32, now works at wildwood smokehouse and still plays basketball has learned the hard way about sport injuries. Peggins is a neat person by living in Greensboro, North Carolina and Tampa, Florida and attending many schools which means she has seen injuries from sports at other schools but has never seen something this bad.

           

By: James Baron