Christian Taylor did not know what track and field event he would specialize in until he first qualified for the triple jump. His coach placed him in the event because he was the only athlete on the team that could reach the sandpit.
While walking down a Chilean street, missionary Cooper Ainge was intercepted by a lady who needed help constructing a fence, so her pitbull dog had a place to run around. Ainge and a fellow missionary immediately started building the fence, and after spending the whole day working on it, they entered the lady’s house to notify her that the dog could roam around the fenced area.
Grasping on to the railings of her kitchen counter, five-year-old Sabrina Flores would cry as her parents attempted to drag her out of the house and drive her to soccer practice.
“I don’t know why I would cry, but I think, at first, it was because I was scared of soccer,” Flores said.
As a newly-drafted player to the Boston Breakers, alumna Stephanie McCaffrey ’11 often joked to her teammates that throughout her career she played soccer in the same 10-mile radius: BB&N, Boston College, and then Boston Breakers. After her first year as a Breaker and a U.S women’s national team player, her Breakers coach gave her some advice.
