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Me & Coach

What a day I had yesterday... My angiogram and biopsy went great. My arteries are all intact and pumping amazing, my biopsy results came back at the lowest ever so that's just fantastic. After the procedure I had to lay in bed with my leg straight and my head could only be at 30 degrees for 6 hours straight talk about boring. The next time I'm going to have to do that again is in a year thank goodness.
Today I got to go to lunch with my college coach Alison. It was so amazing to see her and chat it up with her about what she's been doing and all that jazz. But more importantly, we talked about the Fifa Women's World Cup and how it is so incredible that some of the players on the teams didn't even play on a club soccer team. Maria Sanchez is one of Alison's players on the Women's Soccer team at Idaho State and Maria is on the Women's World Cup team of Mexico. The first time Maria put on a jersey was in high school. For me, I put on a jersey was at age 4 and then I started playing on Gator's a club team at age 8. When Maria was 8 she was playing in the potato fields with her brothers. Homare Sawa is on the Japan team for the Women's World Cup and is a good friend of Alison, she told Ali that her parents didn't pay a dime for Homare to play soccer. My parents paid a lot of money for me to play. In the US we got it good compared to the other countries. In the end what I am trying to say is there are people in this world that are unbelievably talented in places that not everyone can see them. This made me think how great I have it and how privileged I am to live in this country, but also to think about all those little soccer champs out there all over the world and to tell them to keep pushing and moving forward. I mean getting to play soccer was easy for me; for the people in other countries it is much harder.


Coach you are such an amazing individual and you inspire me to be the best I can be always!!

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