UMKC’s Aries Washington Keeps Playing Despite New Reality, Epilepsy

UMKC basketball player Aries Washington underwent an electroencephalogram after last season and prayed it would reveal something wrong with her brain.

“I did, I asked God if there’s something wrong with me let it show up on the test,” Washington said.

Frightened as she was, the unknown scared her more. Washington, then a sophomore, had to know why she felt like she did.

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