Infectious personality helped Johnson triumph over adversity

Infectious personality helped Johnson triumph over adversity

MAPLE — Shelley Johnson heard her phone ringing on a chilly Valentine’s Day evening just over a year ago. She glanced at the screen and saw it was Abby Johnson, her daughter, calling around the time Northwestern’s final regular-season basketball practice was supposed to be wrapping up. “She called me crying,” Shelley said. “She just cried, and I cried, too, because I knew what it was.” Abby had torn the ACL and meniscus in her left knee just min…