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...second floor of the Beren Tennis Center—one of the few warm places across the river on that day—the sun trickled through the glass and onto the faces of seniors Kate Gannon and Shelley Maasdorp. They sat in a room designed for a press conference. Three people joined them: their coach, Sue Caples; my roommate and fellow reporter from The Crimson, Pat Coyne; and me. We were sitting at the front of the room talking about the NCAA Tournament field hockey game that had just ended, steps away at Jordan Field...
...it” we wanted, though, was precisely that reflection. A reflection, in particular, which fans of any sport wish they could have even the opportunity to ponder, deep down We wanted to know how Gannon and Maadorp felt at that moment, as the profound realization set in that today would likely be the last day that they would play official, organized athletics in their lives; that this would be the day their passion, the thing which may have defined and dominated them in grade school, high school, and college, would end. There would be spring play, perhaps, but their...
...Gannon and Maasdorp, impressively, didn’t show it. No tears were explicitly shed. In their place, most people might have cried. At one point, I even thought that I might have if I was in their shoes. Not out of total despair, mind you; far, far from it. Instead, just like graduation, just like the end of one part of your life, this game was the end of a significant chapter in a story...
...sort of like, ‘You know, we don’t have anything to lose at this point and we’re just going to leave it all out on the field,’” Gannon said...
...couldn’t be happier,” Gannon added...