Jazmarie Mader is living proof that absence makes the heart grow fonder. When the Sun Devil soccer team opened the season on Aug. 18 in Tempe against Ohio State, the senior forward was feeling deep appreciation for her sport.
"I usually sit by myself in the locker room so I was just sitting there thinking, 'this is the moment you've been waiting for so long,'" Mader said. "I had so much energy; so much excitement that I was finally going to get to do this again."
Mader's junior season was cut short by a concussion that she initially suffered when a ball struck her head against Colorado on Oct.