Very peaceful and I still love it always to this day , but it's different . I think the college process was the very first real soccer challenge that I was like , OK , this isn't just how hard can you kick a ball , it's overall as your character that is the college process that's about who you are as a person , who as an athlete , um , and so when the college process came . I think I was told by so many people that , you know , I'm from Boston , Massachusetts , so East Coast soccer is very different and the exposure to get out to California is , it's just not there all the time and so one of the biggest challenges that I've faced in recent years was getting told that I just couldn't attend USC .
Our support system at USC is amazing , um , so less of a challenge and more of an amazing opportunity . I feel like I'm always going into my college process because it was so unique once again and . I was from a little small East Coast soccer club , and my growing up , I was even on a smaller club .
I went on a visit 2 weeks later and I was offered 3 days after that . So my college process is very unique and that it was very slow and very Doubtful at times and times where I wanted to quit and then all of a sudden things just work out and you get the exposure and you get in front of them and so I think that taught me a big lesson on a delay in life is not always a deny in life and what's meant to be will always be . I think being in the college environment , you learn a lot on and off the field from the moment you step into the locker room the first time and every day that you're there , and one of the biggest lessons that I've learned doesn't even come really from soccer , but it was when I attended my first day at preseason last year and for our women's soccer team , we had 14 seniors .
Or you could send one random email and a couple of months later they'll finally respond . And I think mentally , that is the biggest part about the college process is knowing your worth , and for me it was a lot of ups and downs of OK , this college that I really want to attend no longer like that was a big thing with Berkeley was like , I got on the phone with them . They didn't reach back and no hate there Berkeley .
It's all up to you . And so In soccer , I'd say college process was massive challenge and then even my freshman year last year at USC was Definitely one of the most character-building years I've had in my life . Um , once again , you're just thrown into an environment and right now we're the top 5 team in the country and so you're going from some little East Coast club that no one knows to all of a sudden .
