I started playing soccer as a five year old living in Heidelberg, Germany.  By age eight I was playing year round indoors and out on a traveling team that competed in  German leagues.  When I was in High School in Columbia, South Carolina we won our way to the State 4A Soccer Finals my Junior and Senior year.  

I scored the winning goal in an overtime shootout in the quarter-finals my senior year to help get us to the finals, but  I was not the team super-star. 

My high-school coach once said I was one of the most versatile players he had ever coached. I can shift perspectives very quickly and that enabled me to rotate in and out of any position including Keeper. Likewise,  a strong peripheral vision made me a leader in assists.  

My coach's compliment meant a lot to me, as  that's the person I was striving to be.