Souks come back after 2 ACL surgery

Hi. My name is Soukaina Tracy, I'm a 18 year old girl who is trying to fulfill her dreams. The dreams I had since I first  felt the way a basketball felt under my fingertips. The power I felt every time I laced up my Nikes and stepped on the brown, hardwood gym floor. Hearing the echoes of a basketball kissing the net has always been music to my ears.. The music that has kept me going after two ACL tears that sidelined me for most of my short lived high school career.

Tearing my ACL for the second time tore me into fragile, sharp pieces.  At the time, I was getting recruited by top tier Division 1 colleges, like Penn State, Florida State, Alabama, Auburn, and many other mid Marjorie's Division 1 colleges. After learning that I tore my acl for the second time every offer, every interest vanished in thin air. It was like the last year of busting my butt off to come back from my first acl tear never happened.  I thought all of my hard work, all of my dreams, and hopes also vanished in the eerie, grey sky. The last nine months I learned a lot about myself… That even the strongest of people have a breaking point.

For the longest time, I taught myself to suppress my feelings, to always wear a strong face and push through the pain no matter how much it leaves you broken inside. For a while, I pushed through the raging fire that was going on in my head. Suppressing every dark, and monstrous thought to the side to battle through knee rehab. I wasn't myself… No one noticed because I didn't allow anyone to notice until I got to my breaking point. School was becoming more hard to attend/focus on, I was losing the contagious smile on my face, my friends were becoming another face in a crowd, my sleepless nights were accompanied by the voices in my head. Everyday was a battle for me.. A battle that I was constantly told I was never gonna win. I felt lost in the most familiar of places, most importantly I felt alone. No one around me understood what I was going through. They told me that it was all in my head, I have to suck it up or I was selfish for feeling this way, their are people around you who are homeless, starving, and even dying of sickness…. Life isn't fair so stop feeling sorry for yourself. They thought they were helping me but really they made me feel worse… They made me feel hollow...Completely disgusted with myself. I allow their words and the words I had for myself to drain all of the life and passion I had in me. The most beautiful thing I ever laid my hands on became another object… Basketball became another sport. The dream I once had became another distant heartbreak that I couldn't stretch far enough to reach. I thought I was broken past repair.. I thought the hourglass had ran out. Until I was pulled from six feet under into the light of hope.. The light of a second chance at a dream I thought was long gone.  Img Academy in Bradenton recruited me so I can prove to all the Division 1 colleges that I am back!  I need to come up with $30,000.00 for tuition.  My mom is working 3 jobs as a single parent to come up with as much as she can in 3 short months is when the full tution is due on July 1, 2016.  Please help me prove myself on the court and make all my dreams come true at IMG Academy.