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Kuch remains key part of Aberdeen Central squad

Aberdeen Central’s Grace Kuch, far right, cheers from the bench during a recent girls basketball game against Rapid City Central at Golden Eagles Arena. Photo by John Davis taken 12/8/2023
The trajectory of Grace Kuch’s senior season changed with one solitary jump.  On the first jump of warm-ups ahead of a big volleyball match at Harrisburg in mid-October, the Aberdeen Central senior felt a pop in her knee, and knew almost immediately what had happened. Every athlete’s worst fear, summed up in a 3-letter acronym – a torn ACL. “The first thing I said to (Central volleyball coach Jackie Bindenagel), I looked at her and I said, ‘This is not how it’s supposed to end,’” Kuch said. Kuch tried every argument she could think of to convince her doctors, parents and coaches to let her postpone surgery and at least finish out the season.  But eventually reason won out, and the operating room was booked. The end had, inevitably, arrived. The thing about that surgery, however, was that it didn’t just signal the end of her volleyball career. It wiped out her senior season of basketball, as well. Aberdeen Central’s Grace Kuch, right, reac

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