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4 Dopke

Every day I am reminded that our life’s journey is really about the people who touch us,” – Stuart Scott.

The challenges on the pitch for a freshman soccer player are many. The commitment is greater, the game is faster, the opponents are better than you have ever seen before. But for Kelly Dopke, those challenges paled in comparison to what was going on outside the game.

“May 31, 2015, my brother Nick was killed in a motorcycle accident,” Kelly said. “He was a year older than me. It was just, all of a sudden.