Without question; specialization, year round training/competition, strength conditioning overuse have taken a huge toll on women athletes. It's being seen at a younger age, also. Too much of anything is not a good thing!
While I agree with the premise, it’s doubtful that Christyn’s elbow injury had anything to do with the fact that she specializes in basketball. Baseball pitchers, tennis players and golfers all have the potential to injure their elbow. There just isn’t that much stress on an elbow from playing basketball. I suspect Christyn sustained the injury either from a hard fall or perhaps from an improper weight lifting technique on bicep curls.
When CW is on, she can ruin the opposition. She can hit 3's, slice through zones or leave her single coverage wondering where she went as she drives to the basket, lock-down and neutralize the opposition's best offensive threat, etc.
She’s already recovered and practicing.
Since I presume we don't know when this injury happened, I guess there is a possibility that all of our guard/wings were affected at least somewhat by injury while playing last year. Clearly Anna and Nika had injuries that caused them to miss games and probably hampered them in others, and Paige continued to play with an ankle problem, Evina had minutes monitored in practice and clearly wasn't 100% recovered, and now possibly Christyn might have been playing with a problem, although this injury could have happened after the season as well.
