Abbie Squier recently went back and watched a game film from 2023 and listened to the commentators question her stance in the box. They were wondering what in the world she was doing.
Squier started on the plate and then stepped back to give herself room. The commentators didn’t know she had a secret.
She was playing with a hip injury and her stance was forever changing depending on the amount of pain she was in.
“I was feeling really good going into the season,” Squier said in a phone interview. “And then I started having some hip pain in preseason. As athletes, you have pain and just deal with it so I wasn’t really concerned about it. It progressively got worse so we got an MRI.”
The MRI revealed some impingement and labral damage in her left hip.
Squier, along with her trainers and doctors, decided to come up with a plan to manage her pain with anti-inflammatories and injections. If she could tolerate the pain, she could play.
After a 2022 season that earned her First-Team Big Ten honors, Squier emerged as a leader both on and field the field for the Huskers.