For Lucy Davis, the good news was that she and her Lincoln-Sudbury (Mass.) High School teammates had been preparing for a moment like this since before the season.
Leadership classes for the upperclassmen. Team meetings with sports psychologists. Attention to defensive detail.
The bad news is that when the Warriors played in the MIAA Division 1 tournament, Davis wasn’t on the field.
A second torn ACL ended the University of Michigan-bound senior’s high school playing career on May 11. Soon after, her team lost its first two games, back-to-back close results to Longmeadow (12-11) and Westwood (8-7).