Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
As soon as Jenasae Bishop finally was able to lift herself up off the floor onto unsteady legs and start an unfocused wobble off the practice court, her emotions began to well, the tears began to spill and soon Wright State basketball coach Katrina Merriweather was at her side, hugging her.
“She was walking and blinking and she just had this strange look in her eye,” Merriweather said. “She wanted to practice again, but you could just tell.
“I was like, ‘Y’all, she’s not OK!’”
This happened just before the current basketball season began—during a Raiders’ preseason practice—when the 5-foot-6 junior guard suffered her third concussion in just over two years of college basketball.
The first one had come during a practice early in her freshman year at Boston College. She caught a teammate’s inadvertent elbow in the middle of the forehead and the blow was serious enough that it sidelined her for two months of that 2018-19 season.
The next two concussions have come since she transferred to Wright State before the start of last season.
