SPORTS SPOTLIGHT
COMEBACK KID After a debilitating injury, point guard Jake Rhode returns to the court stronger than ever.
In his first game as a college player, point guard Jake Rhode ’20 scored an impressive 29 points—and set the stage for an exceptional first season. As men’s head basketball coach John Baines put it, “Jake really set the world on fire.” But during the second game of the season, Rhode felt his knee pop. He played a few more games—scoring 38 points in one—but it became clear that he needed surgery, and he spent the rest of the 2016–17 season on the sidelines. It wasn’t Rhode’s first serious injury. He tore a ligament in fifth grade and has had trouble with his knee ever since, including a torn meniscus and a total of three surgeries.