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KANSAS CITY ( KSHB ) -- Tressa Barnes thought injury ended her college basketball career 24 years ago.

Diving along the sideline to make a pass for the Calvary Warriors volleyball team, Barnes suffered a torn ACL in her right knee.

“My body went this way, and my knee went that way,” Barnes said. “It just popped, and people in the crowd heard it.”

It was the second time she’d torn the ACL in that knee.

Doctors told her she could keep playing “and have a knee replacement when you're 30,” which might impact her ability to be active with children, or she could give up competitive sports.

“I grieved,” Barnes said. “As any student athlete does, you grieve when you know that your career is over with. It's like a death.”

But earlier this month, fate —

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