Lindsey Oubre gets tired of people asking her if she drinks milk.

“I drink milk all the time,” the Riverside Academy senior said. “I drink milk every day.”

She figures people are just trying to be funny, or else they’re trying to ask her — in a funny way — if there is some underlying medical condition that has caused her to break bones in both of her legs in the span of just three years.

Oubre said there’s nothing wrong.

“Nobody’s even talking about that,” she said.

Oubre is a lovely young lady with a strong, athletic build, who looks as impressive in her softball or soccer uniform as she did in her prom dress last weekend.

But, sadly, some folks in Reserve have gotten used to seeing Oubre in a cast — or two.

During her eighth grade year, Oubre was playing soccer for the Riverside Lady Rebels when she broke her left fibula during practice.

“I was trying to slide for a play in the middle of the field,” she said. “I probably shouldn’t have done it, but I was young.”

With a cast on her leg, Oubre was forced to sit out all of the 2013 softball season.

After an uneventful freshman season, Oubre was ready to go all out on the field.

Then, during a soccer game, an opponent ran into her knee, causing a sprain of her medial collateral ligament. Once again, Oubre was sent to the bench.

She said this injury was worse than the broken leg.

“I was out the rest of soccer and almost all of softball,” she said. “It took a long time to heal.”

Oubre did manage to return to the field just in time for the final weeks of the 2015 softball season as the Lady Rebels advanced to the State Tournament in Sulphur.

“I got to make the last out with runners on base,” she said, referring to her only at-bat, which ended the season with a 9-8 loss to Winnfield in the semifinals.

“It was a high pressure situation to be in because I hadn’t played,” she said.

Then came Oubre’s junior year and the Lady Rebels soccer team was having a great season, winning its first district championship in years and making it to the third round of the playoffs.

Oubre missed the end.

She was sliding into home plate during a practice when she broke her right fibula.

“I knew it was broken the minute it happened,” she said. “After I broke my other leg, I knew.”

After several more months in a cast, Oubre made it back to the field.

Not only did she make it through soccer unscathed, she is now tearing it up on the softball field — pardon the pun (and knock wood).

Oubre said she is pretty much back to normal, except for some residual ankle pain, and she hates to slide into home.

“I’d almost rather slide on my stomach now because I’m thinking about when I got injured,” she said.

Certainly, injuries are a part of sports. Of the more than 30 million youths who participate in some form of organized sports, more than 3.5 million will experience some type of injury.

Oubre’s case might be unusual in that she has broken the same bone in both legs, but no one really keeps statistics on that.

Some players make it through their high school career with nary a bruise.

Many don’t.

East St. John senior C.J. Turner tweeted last week that his baseball-playing days are over because of a shoulder injury. As much as he loves the game of baseball, he also knows he has to protect his future.

Turner, a stellar wide receiver, has received a football scholarship to Southeastern Louisiana University.

“I’m not going there to play baseball,” he said. “I’m going to play football. I might think I’m invincible, but I know I’m not.”

Still, Turner said it’s hard to leave his teammates.

“I know I was a leader of the team, being a senior,” he said. “I feel like I could help them.”

Oubre said her parents never tried to talk her out of playing either sport, implying  they knew better than to even try.

As a mom, I’m guessing they still worry, though, every time she takes the field.

“I just figure, whatever happens, happens,” she said. “I can’t worry about it.”

Lori Lyons is sports editor at L’OBSERVATEUR. She can be reached at lori.lyons@lobservateur.com or 985-652-9545.