Her plan, for the moment, is outlined and organized. Alicia Pille has a one-year job set up after graduation. She’ll apply to occupational therapy school after that. Then she’ll chase a dream career in medicine.
Pille, a senior right-hander on Kansas’ softball team, always thought she wanted to work in a medical field. In high school, she took one of those career surveys, and the results spit out a term she hadn’t heard before: “Occupational therapy.”
But the plan, she says, began to crystallize on the night of Sept. 30, 2013.
It was her 21st birthday, a typical day during the fall of her junior year.