A tale of two coaches

What I learned about how to push and believe in myself — two things that are still very much a work in progress

When I was in high school, I played soccer for our varsity team. We were a small school, so it wasn’t all that hard to make the team; our coach needed players, so he asked me in the hallway one day, and I said “sure.” I hadn’t even played soccer since I was a little kid but I thought, why not?

A couple of days later, I found myself on the practice field,…