Who Knew?

When I was 8 years old I moved from a catholic school in Norwalk, CT to a public school in Monroe, CT. When I moved to Monroe, I knew no one besides my neighbor who I met on the first day at the bus stop. We instantly became friends, and I wanted to do everything she did because I wanted to make friends and hangout with her more. Through my neighbor I became involved in soccer and the story takes off from there.

Once I started playing soccer I never wanted to stop. Growing up I was always very competitive and soccer was the perfect way for me to act on it. All my coaches were impressed with how quick I picked it up, and right away told my mom she should have me try out for travel. When I tried out my whole world changed. I became a part of a girls that, to this day, are my biggest sports family. Soccer became my life, and I played it throughout high school.

Thanks to soccer, I became a great athlete and got involved in other sports too. My freshmen year of high school I tried out for my schools lacrosse team. We did not have any feeder programs growing up, so high school was the first time most girls ever picked up a lacrosse stick. Once I worked out the kinks and started to understand the game I fell in love. I can't say I loved it as much as soccer, but it was definitely second. As high school went on, I continued to become better and stronger in lacrosse, while, due to unfortunate circumstances, I had to stop playing soccer. Although I was devastated I could no longer play soccer, I could now put all that energy into lacrosse. 

In my senior year during lacrosse season I was recruited to play on the Women's Lacrosse Team at Southern Connecticut State University. Looking back even to the beginning of high school, I never would have thought that I would be playing lacrosse in college; I always said that I would be playing soccer. Although I still miss soccer and wish I could play, I could not be happier to play lacrosse at Southern. I owe everything I learned about sports and teams to soccer, and looking back, I would never be the athlete I am today if I never played.