Liz Liechty in a tale of being tough
By Tim Lane
Molalla Pioneer
In high school Elizabeth Liechty’s shoulder could be a bother sometimes. It had a tendency to pop out of its socket, making the painful process of pushing it back in a necessity for those around her.
“I just remember that dang shoulder,” Liechty’s high school basketball coach Ray Williams says.
“When it first popped out I was mind boggled. Then I went over and felt it and I was stunned. I would have been crying but the other girls just said ‘oh, this happens all of the time,’ and they just popped it back in and she (Liechty) cringed a little bit and then got back out on the floor.”
She cringed a little bit and then got back out on the floor. She stopped, acknowledged the pain, and then pushed through it and got on with it.
Working through difficulties has been a trend in Liechty’s life.
Liechty knows pain and injury. It is something she has to deal with regularly.
Forget anticipating the worst, forget worrying if something dreadful might happen. For Liechty, she has been there, and the question in her life has always been, what now?
“We have always tried to instill in our kids that quitting is not an option,” Liz’s mother Melissa says. “Being part of what would be considered a large family by today’s standards our kids have always experienced patience and hard work because they competed with each other. None of what she has conquered has surprised me because she has always been tough.”
Liz had to be strong—she grew up in a household with four men, her father Paul, her older brother Dan, 22, and her younger brothers Aaron, 17, and Ben, 15.
“She had never quit anything in her life,” Melissa says. “She is tough. My husband always says she is tougher than all three of our boys.”
Tough like being able to keep playing a sport that knocks her shoulders out of whack.
“When I was in high school, I had two surgeries on my right shoulder,” Liechty says. “It still dislocates on a regular basis now.”
For the complete story, please see Wednesday's Molalla Pioneer
By Tim Lane
Molalla Pioneer
In high school Elizabeth Liechty’s shoulder could be a bother sometimes. It had a tendency to pop out of its socket, making the painful process of pushing it back in a necessity for those around her.
“I just remember that dang shoulder,” Liechty’s high school basketball coach Ray Williams says.
“When it first popped out I was mind boggled. Then I went over and felt it and I was stunned. I would have been crying but the other girls just said ‘oh, this happens all of the time,’ and they just popped it back in and she (Liechty) cringed a little bit and then got back out on the floor.”
She cringed a little bit and then got back out on the floor. She stopped, acknowledged the pain, and then pushed through it and got on with it.
Working through difficulties has been a trend in Liechty’s life.
Liechty knows pain and injury. It is something she has to deal with regularly.
Forget anticipating the worst, forget worrying if something dreadful might happen. For Liechty, she has been there, and the question in her life has always been, what now?
“We have always tried to instill in our kids that quitting is not an option,” Liz’s mother Melissa says. “Being part of what would be considered a large family by today’s standards our kids have always experienced patience and hard work because they competed with each other. None of what she has conquered has surprised me because she has always been tough.”
Liz had to be strong—she grew up in a household with four men, her father Paul, her older brother Dan, 22, and her younger brothers Aaron, 17, and Ben, 15.
“She had never quit anything in her life,” Melissa says. “She is tough. My husband always says she is tougher than all three of our boys.”
Tough like being able to keep playing a sport that knocks her shoulders out of whack.
“When I was in high school, I had two surgeries on my right shoulder,” Liechty says. “It still dislocates on a regular basis now.”
For the complete story, please see Wednesday's Molalla Pioneer
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