With two minutes remaining in the first half of a must-win game at rival Utah on Oct. 30, the screech of the referee’s whistle stopped everything. From the sideline, Chelsea Peterson could see her teammate, Paiton Collins, was down on the pitch.

The Cougars’ 18-game starter at goalie was holding her right knee. The ACL was gone, and Collins’ season was instantly over. Adding to the stress of the night, without a victory, BYU’s year would be over, too.

“Paiton’s injury — it made me sick,” Peterson told the “Y’s Guys” livestream show this week. “You hate to see it, but when someone goes down, someone has to come in. It’s just how it works.”

With Collins down, Peterson was in.

The turn of events that brought the 5-foot-8 former Ute back to Ute Field to play for BYU could fill the pages

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