MJuric wrote:
Just found out yesterday that my neighbors daughter played with Lauren Doyle on her college Rugby team. I beleive that is the closest I've ever been in terms of relationship separations to someone who actually played in the olympics.
My daughter played on a competitive soccer team with one of the current Olympic women's field hockey team members. She was also a very good soccer player, but the family realized in junior high that field hockey was the more likely route to D1 colleges. Not sure if they were even thinking Olympics at that age, but later she was making pre-Olympic team while in HS.. I would not have been surprised to see this girl make D1 in soccer had she concentrated on it. Three of my daughters teammates did make D1 colleges in soccer so they had the kind of coaching that could train at that level.