Wheaton’s own Thomas Jaeschke is heading for his second straight Olympics, but this time, things are very different.
A lot changed for Jaeschke in the years since he competed on the men’s volleyball team for Team USA in the Rio Games, where he was the youngest player on the team.
“It’s a little different this time,” Jaeschke told NBC Chicago. “This quad was pretty slow, I had some injuries, and it was pretty choppy obviously with COVID too. And then last quad, I kind of came out of college, turned professional, everything kind of happened bang, bang, bang. So year, it was kind of two stark contrasts.”
In 2018, Jaeschke tore his ACL during a game.
“I had injured it and then I think 10 days later I had surgery and after surgery my quad had completely disappeared and it was like, you know, whatever it was – 24 years of work- and you know, my legs were pretty…
