{"id":25851,"date":"2024-06-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/?post_type=podcast&p=25851"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:16:08","slug":"paige-bueckers-proved-her-acl-injury-was-behind-her-at-march-madness-but-questions-must-still-be-asked-about-the-injuries-that-afflict-female-athletes","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/paige-bueckers-proved-her-acl-injury-was-behind-her-at-march-madness-but-questions-must-still-be-asked-about-the-injuries-that-afflict-female-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers Proved Her ACL Injury Was Behind her at March Madness, but, as Andrea Hudy tells us, Questions Must Still Be Asked about the Injuries that Afflict Female Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Paige Bueckers Proved Her ACL Injury Was Behind her at March Madness, but, as Andrea Hudy tells us, Questions Must Still Be Asked about the Injuries that Afflict Female Athletes<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Andrea Hudy is one of the individuals posing those questions, as UConn\u2019s Director of Sports Performance for women\u2019s basketball tells The People Behind the Tech podcast.<\/p>\n \n \n \n

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Paige Bueckers\u2019 stellar performances at this year\u2019s March Madness proved that her ACL injury is long behind her.<\/h6>\n

She returned to action in November 2023 after 15 months out and drove UConn all the way to the Final Four of the NCAA Women\u2019s Basketball Tournament.<\/p>\n

Behind the scenes, Andrea Hudy, the Director of Sports Performance (Women’s Basketball) at UConn, was critical to Bueckers\u2019 convalescence and is working (while pursuing a PhD) to ensure there are fewer such occurrences in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy passion is trying to understand why people get hurt or the story behind their injuries and keep them strong and resilient for what\u2019s unexpected or the challenges ahead,\u201d she tells The People Behind the Tech<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n

Andrea speaks from her own experience of injury as a varsity volleyball player. Indeed, when anyone says she \u201cplayed without an ACL\u201d for six years \u2013 as Andrea told Joe Lemire and John Portch \u2013 it makes you sit up and take notice.<\/p>\n

In the first episode of this new series, we discuss the questions that still need to be asked about female injury occurrence rates [18:00]. We also touch upon Andrea\u2019s career in college athletics, which took in tenures at Texas and Kansas before she returned to UConn three years ago for her second spell [8:40]. Then, we broach her willingness to experiment with new technologies while concurrently seeking better insights from existing datasets [11:40]. Finally, she tells us why she can occasionally see herself as a modern, real-life Icarus [26:30] and much more besides.<\/p>\n