“It felt like someone threw a fork with the weight of a big rock and it just stuck right in my hip,” Bucklin’s Nathan Imel said of his hip injury in 2018. After surgery, it took more than a year of rehabilitation and physical therapy before Imel could play sports again. [SUBMITTED PHOTO BY NATHAN IMEL]
Gary Van Cleave Special to the Globe Nathan Imel was on pace to setting track records at Bucklin High School. Just in eighth grade, Imel…