Injured WMU player is OK

Western Michigan guard LaTrondra Brooks, who lay on her back with an apparent head or neck injury for more than a half hour during Saturday’s game with Kent State, is all right.

Sean Daniels, a sports information official at Western, said “she is doing just fine.”

“She was able to ride home on the bus with us all,” Daniels said. “Everything was just precautionary because it was dealing with the head/neck.”

Brooks was injured when she fell backwards after committing a foul. Trainers and other medical personnel worked with her before paramedics wheeled her to an ambulance on a stretcher.