Meigs County’s Jade Meadows (41) is a two-sport standout who had her basketball season cut short last year by a knee injury that also caused her to miss the Lady Tigers’ state-championship softball season.Jade Meadows missed out as the Meigs County girls’ basketball team was unable to achieve what it wanted to last season. She also missed out as the Decatur high school’s softball team achieved the ultimate goal.
Tearing the ACL in her left knee in a District 3-A tournament game against Knoxville Grace Christian at Roane State cut short Meadows’ sophomore basketball season. It also caused her to miss all of softball season, which turned out to be a state-championship year for the Lady Tigers.
“I tried to be there as much as I could,” Meadows said of supporting the softball team while rehabilitating her injury.
She even showed up for the state tournament in Murfreesboro and served as an assistant coach – or at least had the look of one.
“We gave her her own bucket,” Meigs softball coach Jeff Davis said. “She sat beside us in the dugout for five games and watched. I know she’d much rather had been out there playing. We’d much rather have had her out there, too.”