Defender Ashley Rape suffered a torn left anterior cruciate ligament in Duke’s 3-1 victory over then-No. 1 Notre Dame on Aug. 28, associate sports information director Lindy Brown confirmed to The Chronicle on Tuesday.
Rape, who has torn the same ligament twice before in her Duke career, will miss the rest of the 2011 season. The redshirt junior completed her first full collegiate season in 2010 and is coming off a summer in which she competed in Sweden with the United States U-23 national team.
“Ashley is our heart and soul in the back,” Blue Devil head coach Robbie Church told GoDuke.com after beating the Fighting Irish. “She has put her life into our program the last four years.”
Rape first tore her ACL during practice in Oct. 2008. Despite missing the last ten games of the season, she was named a Soccer Buzz first team freshman All-American. She then redshirted the 2009 season after reinjuring the same knee.
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