IOWA CITY — The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports that University of Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball coach Lisa Bluder told the university’s Presidential Committee on Athletics on Thursday that she received a call the day before about the condition of Nickerson High star and Iowa commit Ava Jones.
Bluder told the committee that new MRI scans showed that Ava had torn all four major ligaments in both of her knees — ACL, MCL, PCL, and LCL.
Such injuries are likely to prevent Jones from playing again, according to Bluder.
Jones and her family were hit by a car July 5 while in Louisville, Kentucky for an AAU basketball tournament. Her father Trey, died from his injuries and her mother and brother were also hit.
The man police say admitted to taking hydrocodone before hitting the Jones family has pled not guilty in the case. Thirty-three-year-old Michael Hurley was already on probation for drug possession and drug use in Indiana at the time of the crash.