Annika Davis back with Lady Rams weightlifting team after missing last season due to broken ankle

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - This week’s ABC7 Athlete of the Week is Annika Davis. She’s a senior at Riverview High School and a member of the school’s girls weightlifting team. The season just got underway, and she’s ecstatic to get back into the groove of everything. “It feels great,” Davis said. “Honestly, I really missed this. Just being in practice with the team, it’s just such great vibes all over.”Davis is also excited to be back because she wasn’t able to do this during her junior year due to a broken ankle. “It happened when I was in Romania hiking on a mountain,” Davis said.What’s amazing is Davis continued to persevere through this injury for a lengthy period of time before actually getting a diagnosis. “I didn’t realize the severity until about two years after,” Davis said. “My ankle would just start giving out over and over again. I finally went to the doctor and I found out I tore three ligaments.”When she did get the news that the ankle was broken, Davis had to have surgery w