Knee Surgery Info

UConn center Brittany Hunter may consider Knee surgery to repair a meniscus tear in her right knee, according to her mother, Jeryll Womack.

“I think she might have torn the meniscus,” Womack said Monday evening. “I don’t know how serious her knee injury is. She was doing well up until a week ago. She wasn’t feeling right.”

Hunter, however, practiced both Sunday and Monday and she participated in full-court drills Monday.

Womack said arthroscopic surgery is one way to correct the problem, but no decision has been made if Hunter will pursue that option.

“I would prefer that she not have any (surgery),” Womack said. “She’s had several already. If she can heal without surgery, then that would be the best option.”

Womack admitted she had not spoken to anyone from the UConn medical staff or any of the coaches about her daughter’s latest setback, which began about a week ago.

Hunter sat out of the three practices leading up to last Thursday’s exhibition game against Team Concept. Missing the practices prompted UConn coach Geno Auriemma to hold Hunter out of the game.

Until a week ago, Womack said her daughter felt fine.

“She’s certainly disappointed because of how well she had been doing,” said Womack, who last talked to her daughter prior to Monday’s practice. “I think she feels somewhat stunned about it. She still doesn’t have all the information from what I understand. Certainly, she wasn’t expecting this.”

Hunter has had problems with her right knee since transferring from Duke in 2004. She tore the lateral meniscus seven games into the season during her freshman year at Duke. While she ended up playing 14 games during the 2003-04 season, she opted to transfer because she lost faith in the Duke medical staff.

Hunter underwent reconstructive surgery October of 2004 and spent the 2004-05 season rehabilitating her knee. She returned to playing last season but missed five games midway through the season because of swelling and pain in her knee

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