Coupeville Sports

Carson Risner (left), anchoring the line for the Wolves. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Risner (bottom left) and other CHS captains celebrate during the football team’s awards dinner. (Sylvia Arnold photo)

And then some snipping was done. (Jennie Prince photo)

A little snip here. A little shave there.

Doctors cleaned up the injured leg of Coupeville High School football captain Carson Risner recently, getting the junior back on-target for being ready for his senior season on the gridiron.

Risner, a two-way starter on the line for the Wolves, was injured during a practice midway through the football season, and is currently sitting out the basketball season while working as a manager for the boys’ hoops team.

He hopes to be back and healthy in time to throw during the track season.

“His surgeon threw discus in college and asked if we wanted a rubber-band and some springs added while he was in there, so he could really get a good launch,” mom Jennie Prince said with a laugh.

“The surgeon was hoping he could play the end of the season of basketball, but our season is over too soon,” she added. “He cannot bend his knee past 90 degrees for six weeks. Then he should be fine. He will take it slow and needs to rebuild his quad muscles. He’s hoping to throw.”

Doctors shaved Risner’s torn-up patella and repaired a 28mm meniscus tear. A medial ligament attached to his patella that keeps it from dislocating is still torn.

Surgery on that would require a six-month recovery time, so the family is waiting to see if it will heal itself, which is very possible.

“He can play with a nice tape job and a patella tracking brace,” Prince said. “If it dislocates again he will consider fixing it, but it still may heal if he’s nice to it.

“His torn MCL from football looks like it never happened,” she added. “Happy about that. ACL is perfect too.”