"I wanted to keep going, but it was getting to a point where it was a good time to step away from the game," Radunske said. "It was just that I was playing through a lot of pain. And then the quality of your life starts to go down because it's very difficult mentally to be playing hurt. All athletes sometimes have to play at 90 percent or 80 percent because it's part of the game. But I was getting to a point where it was getting a little bit too low for me to be comfortable."

