For the second straight season, the Gophers have lost Taylor Woodson before their season really got started.

A 6-foot, junior forward from Minnetonka, Woodson suffered a season-ending injury to her right knee during a 99-36 victory over Manhattan last Friday. In two games off the bench for the Gophers, Woodson averaged a point and two rebounds in 22 combined minutes this season.

Last season, her first back in Minnesota after transferring from Michigan, Woodson blew out her left knee after playing 12 games and spent the next several months rehabbing to be ready for this season.

“This is one of the hardest parts of collegiate athletics, to see someone who has worked so hard now face another significant injury, this time to her other knee,” coach Dawn Plitzuweit said in a statement.

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