FOX 9 — Soccer season is just getting started at St. Cloud State University, but one of the star players is already making a comeback after a stroke sidelined her for two years.
Kristine Knief has played soccer for most of her life, but this year in particular she is having a ball.
I do my best when I just play. I love it,” Knief said. “It’s unbelievable, honestly.”
Knief played for the St. Cloud State Huskies during her freshman year, but while visiting her family in Iowa over Thanksgiving break that year, a tear in the artery in her neck that supplies blood to her brain and face caused her to have a stroke. Doctors told her she would never be able to do anything more athletic than a slow jog.
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