Mom: Doctors expect full recovery for injured Minnesota girls hockey player

• Jenna Privette

In this photo taken Tuesday, injured St. Croix Lutheran hockey player Jenna Privette, 18, reacts as she speaks with her friend and softball teammate Jessika Simonson (off camera to right) during a visit to Privette's room at Gillette Children's Hospital in St. Paul. Her mom, Penny Rich-Privette, is at left. (AP Photo/St. Paul Pioneer Press, Ginger Pinson)

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ST. PAUL — The mother of a Minnesota girls hockey player paralyzed in an on-ice accident says doctors expect a full recovery.

Jenna Privette remains paralyzed from the waist down following last month's hockey game accident. But her mother, Penny, told the St. Paul Pioneer Press in a phone message that doctors “are anticipating a full recovery.”

Privette is a senior at St. Croix Lutheran High School. She was injured in a game Jan. 7 and is receiving physical therapy and rehabilitative care at Gillette Children's Hospital in St. Paul.

Penny Privette said her daughter faces a long road, but has done it before.

In 2008, Jenna Privette suffered a hockey-related injury that left her paralyzed. Penny Privette says her daughter regained use of her upper body and limbs in stages.

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