{"id":8391,"date":"2021-07-10T19:02:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T19:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:22:43","slug":"jordan-earns-scholarship-after-enduring-five-surgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/jordan-earns-scholarship-after-enduring-five-surgeries\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan earns scholarship after enduring five surgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For most high school student-athletes, the thought of having surgery, thus postponing their athletic career, would tough to overcome. For Aislynn Jordan, she had to come back from not one, not two, but five knee surgeries in a 13-month span and still earned a softball scholarship to Jamestown University in North Dakota.<\/p>

\u201cSoftball kept me busy and kept me motivated to know there is something I could come back to rather than have these surgeries and become a couch potato,\u201d she said. \u201cAll my teammates helped push me through it, too. I couldn\u2019t wait to be back with them.\u201d<\/p>

Jordan got in touch with Jamestown through a family friend and intended to go there for nursing.<\/p>

\u201cThere\u2019s a family friend that goes there,\u201d she said. \u201cI hadn\u2019t even been looking there. Her parents suggested that I looked. It was the college I had in mind and it fit perfectly. It\u2019s a very small school, which is what I like. It\u2019s in a small city, which is what I like. Being in a big city is not crowd. The nursing program seems spectacular. Some of the professors I met with seem very nice.\u201d<\/p>

The 3.8 grade point average student wants to be a nurse in pediatrics, orthopedic or labor and delivery.<\/p>

While on a Zoom call with Jamestown, Jordan mentioned she played softball, although she wasn\u2019t sure if she was going to do that at Jamestown.<\/p>

\u201cI viewed Jamestown through Zoom and I\u2019d met the softball coach,\u201d she said. \u201cI said I play softball. But I\u2019m already getting a scholarship for nursing so do I really want to play softball? It was out of the blue, but I got an email from the coach giving me a scholarship. Then, I said I\u2019ll play.\u201d<\/p>

Jordan played third base, first base and designated player in her four years with the Coyotes. She missed her entire junior year because of her injuries, although the season was canceled after 12 games.<\/p>

\u201cMy coach likes to look at the players before he gives them a position,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I spoke to him and said I was a first baseman, he said he usually doesn\u2019t recruit first basemen. He makes a player into first baseman. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen there. They are already having summer workouts so I have to start going to the gym to get that done.<\/p>

\u201cFor what he told me over the Zoom call, he seems to have a good gameplan for the team. He cares a lot for his girls\u2019 mental state and their school. He does a lot of work on the softball field to help his girls. It seems like a good softball program. I know he has seen some videos of me playing because when I spoke to him, I froze.\u201d<\/p>

However, all of this wouldn\u2019t have happened if not for the persistence of Jordan to get back on the playing field.<\/p>

\u201cIt felt good to even be able to get back onto the field,\u201d she said. \u201cI knew I was going to have a good recovery to get back onto the field and get close to where I was before. I didn\u2019t get to play much this year. The way I played felt really good because I didn\u2019t know if I was going to get where I am now.\u201d<\/p>

Jordan got her first surgery on her left knee in September, 2019, at the beginning of her sophomore year.<\/p>

\u201cI had the original surgery because my knee already has arthritis and it was wearing my cartilage away,\u201d she said. \u201cBy the time I was 30, I would be crippled if I didn\u2019t get it done.\u201d<\/p>

A month later, Jordan had to get another surgery.<\/p>

\u201cI tore some scar tissue and it created an hematoma,\u201d she said.<\/p>

Jordan went back under the knife in March, 2020.<\/p>

\u201cThey realized the cadaver bone wasn\u2019t taking so they had to take my own bone from my own hip and put it into my leg,\u201d she said.<\/p>

That was followed by a surgery a month later for stitches that didn\u2019t close and caused an infection.<\/p>

Her last surgery was in October to take the plate screws out.<\/p>

\u201cI definitely got used to seeing certain nurses after surgery,\u201d she said.<\/p>

Although Jordan didn\u2019t get as many chances as she would have liked and wasn\u2019t as successful as she would have liked, she knew that she was getting back to where she was before the surgeries.<\/p>

The highlight of Jordan\u2019s senior year was in a May 20 game against San Joaquin Memorial-Fresno when she came off the bench and hit a three-run home run.<\/p>

\u201cIt felt so good,\u201d she aid. \u201cYou can even ask Coach A (Co-Head Coach Melissa Armiento-van Loon) when I was rounding third and I gave her a High 5 and said \u2018Finally!\u201d She started laughing. It was the moment I was waiting for to get officially back in the game. It felt amazing off the bat.<\/p>

In addition, normally a first baseman with the Coyotes, Jordan received some playing time at third base and held down the position for the first half of the year.<\/p>

\u201cPlaying third base felt weird,\u201d she said. \u201cI hadn\u2019t played in years. I used to play third base, but it was weird to be across the diamond. To play any position felt good to be on the field.\u201d<\/p>

Now, Jordan is getting ready to head halfway across the country to go to school to become a nurse and play softball. However, her family, who is at every game, is a little sad because of it.<\/p>

\u201cMy family doesn\u2019t want to me to leave, but they want me to leave to have that adventure,\u201d she said. \u201cMy grandma already warned my grandpa that she was going to fly to some of my games so they may not miss much. I\u2019m already packing away every single sweatshirt I have because I need all of them.<\/p>

\u201cI\u2019m nervous for the next part, but super excited,\u201d she said.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For most high school student-athletes, the thought of having surgery, thus postponing their athletic career, would tough to overcome. For Aislynn Jordan, she had to come back from not one, not two, but five knee surgeries in a 13-month span and still earned a softball scholarship to Jamestown University in North Dakota. \u201cSoftball kept me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":41019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-8391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}