Performance under pressure: How student-athletes deal with stresses in sport
This wasn’t supposed to be the way Erie guard Jackson Clancy would spend his junior football season.
Clancy, who’s being recruited by multiple Division-I collegiate programs, was supposed to take another step toward his dream of playing at the next level. He was meant to shine for his Tiger teammates.
He certainly didn’t plan on spending each practice and game on the sidelines with a massive scar on his knee. Clancy’s season ended before it began when he planted his foot wrong and twisted his knee during the team’s preseason scrimmage.
“I walked into my mom on the phone with the doctor and she had her computer up and she had ‘torn ACL’ searched up all the way,” Clancy said. “I just walked out and closed my door and just shut everybody out for like a whole two days. I was just in shock and awe. It was horrible. All that hard work just washed away.”
