Jonathan.LeBlanc

SIDNEY — Lockwood senior Izzabella Weber was set on playing volleyball throughout her high school career. She didn't see it any other way.

A medical condition changed those plans.

Weber, while playing volleyball and basketball in junior high, dealt with tightness in her Achilles, which gave her pain after playing both sports.

Her Achilles tendonitis required Weber to get surgery before high school. Weber got gastrocnemius recession, which cuts fibers of the gastrocnemius muscle — a large calf muscle — to allow the Achilles tendon to lengthen . She got the surgery in each Achilles separately, allowing one to heal before getting surgery on the other.

That sidelined Izzabella Weber's plans of playing volleyball.

"I thought that I would be playing volleyball my whole h

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