Brittany Hunter is about to have surgery to get a transplanted meniscus. It's a fairly unusual surgery with uncertain results: "The goal is not to give the patient a 'normal' knee, but rather to make it better. It is possible that patients may not be able to resume competitive athletics despite a successful meniscus transplant."

Hunter is sanguine. "I felt like I sat out most of last year," she Hunter. "I felt like last year I came into college playing catch-up because I was injured with plantar fasciitis. That was real trying, and then when I was hurt, I had to catch up again. It was a never-ending injury and, hopefully, when I have the surgery it will finally end."