Katelyn Tuohy Major Knee Surgery

Because she's a teenage girl and some people here are not trying to be stalkerish?

good for her family and people they surround themselves with for keeping it under wraps. they do appear to put in a great deal of effort to raise her with a sense of normalcy and humility.

Doubt if it was really major knee surgery. If so, she is done.

NR Connected wrote:

but how do we see her future panning out at NC State now...

Hopefully she will earn a degree and start a career that she is satisfying. Nothing new.

This is big news if it is true. So far the only report of it is a 2nd or 3rd hand account from an LRC poster who "knows a guy." She had an amazing high school career, and she'll always have that. I'm sure that she wants to continue running and winning, and I hope that she can do that (whether she did have any surgery or not). If she had "major knee surgery," then the probability of a brilliant running career isn't so great though.

11/2018: Was unable to participate in section 1 championship race, due to knee injury ("knee tendinitis").

06-09/2019: Knee injury during summer, "She said she’d been “kind of dumb” during the summer, running on an injured knee."

2020: Knee surgery (according to OP).

Interview 02/2019: KT: I had some tendonitis in my knee and affected how I was running and eventually came to a point where I couldn’t even run.

She had been dealing with this for a long time. Probably made some mistakes trying to train through it, which only made it worse and allowed it to get re-injured. If it's true and she really underwent surgery, I hope it fixes it for her and wish her all the best.

Def think the quarantine will be a blessing for her. Heal up, get that knee fully recovered, and finally get to take a fall off after 6 straight NXNs.

Wish nothing but the best for Tuohy, she’s gonna come back and kick ass

I wish her the best, but this confirms what we all suspected - her coach overtrained her in a huge way.

Get well soon KT!

Nutsack McGee wrote:

NR Connected wrote:

but how do we see her future panning out at NC State now...

Hopefully she will earn a degree and start a career that she is satisfying. Nothing new.

This is big news if it is true. So far the only report of it is a 2nd or 3rd hand account from an LRC poster who "knows a guy." She had an amazing high school career, and she'll always have that. I'm sure that she wants to continue running and winning, and I hope that she can do that (whether she did have any surgery or not). If she had "major knee surgery," then the probability of a brilliant running career isn't so great though.

I hope it’s nothing bad, but I remember hearing about the rumors she was looking at Stanford or NC, then I found out from a second hand source that was actually true, this might be

Wish her the best tho :/

8 years from now, we'll be reading a story about how Alberto Salazar ruined her career, too!

She mentions the knee issue and some down time in this interview but no mention of surgery. She expects to be back to "decent mileage" in several weeks (from July 8 or thereabouts).

https://www.lohud.com/videos/sports/high-school/track/2020/07/08/katelyn-tuohy-named-athlete-year/5392452002/

She is done :'-(

People have been writing her off forever. What's one more excuse.

astro wrote:

People have been writing her off forever. What's one more excuse.

Um, she's 18 and been running at an elite high level for like 3 years. Not sure exactly how that counts as "forever" and "been writing her off forever".

Do you also use the word "epic" to describe everything ?

That interview was July 8th, so not sure where this rumor is from.

Been going on since she first emerged. For one excuse or another. As always, we will see. what the future holds.

NR Connected wrote:

Genuinely surprised that absolutely no one on this website knew about this. Yesterday found out from someone very close to the source that Tuohy had major knee surgery during quarantine and did not run anywhere from 2-4 months. There are some pictures of her on social media in late June where her stitches and bandage can be observed. How did no one on here know/talk about this??? Obviously does not really matter since NCAA XC is going to be postponed/canceled so if she needed to get surgery this was definitely the time but how do we see her future panning out at NC State now....

Call me "Doubting Thomas" but perhaps you could provide the link to the picture you say is on social media?

I mean an unregistered commenter makes a claim, there are no supporting details, and an interview we have from July 8th makes no reference to it at all and makes clear that she is training and looking forward to the season. I call bs.

astro wrote:

I mean an unregistered commenter makes a claim, there are no supporting details, and an interview we have from July 8th makes no reference to it at all and makes clear that she is training and looking forward to the season. I call bs.

Well, there are certain things that are in OP's favor (him speaking the truth).

1) Tuohy had a reoccurring knee injury since 2018. She had to miss races in late 2018, and then miss an entire summer of training in 2019. That's also why NXN was very hard to win for her last year, despite being the highest talent by far.

2) She ran 15:37 5000m (i), and many other outstanding times as young girl. You can assume that she trained quite hard to reach these times, and was pushing her body constantly to the limit. At one point, something is going to break, and her knee already was an issue multiple times.

3) She did not post anything on social media (Instagram) since Feb 15 this year, outside of a graduation pic. All other runners were posting training during Covid, or core workouts, etc.. A LOT of them did time trials. Tuohy has been a rather shy person and not active on social media in general, but it's another reason that maybe the last few months didn't include much running.

If she really was/is injured for multiple months and unable to train (surgery or not), it's probably the best to let others know. Otherwise there will be even more criticism if she underperforms in the first races, and people don't know that she was actually injured for half a year and maybe even underwent a drastic surgery.

I hope as much as you that it's nothing serious and she didn't lose much training time, but OP's statement (long injury/training break/surgery) seems to have a decent possibility, unfortunately.