Concussion Leaves 14-Year-Old Basketball Player Amnesic, Left-Handed
By KATIE MOISSE, ABC News Medical Unit
Feb. 24, 2011
The 14-year-old from Spangle, Wash., was shoved to the ground after snatching a rebound during a high school basketball game.
"She didn't black out, she didn't grab her head in obvious injury," Wilson's dad, Michael, told ABC News affiliate KXLY 4. "She just got up and noticed her head hurt a little bit on the back. But basketball these days is a very physical game, and there's lots of contact."
After a fouled Wilson shot her free throws, she played two more quarters for the Liberty High Lancers. It wasn't until the team gathered after the game when Wilson asked her mom, Lorie, "Who are those girls dressed just like I am and why are they looking at me?" that anyone noticed anything wrong.
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