“What did it feel like going back out there for the first time?”
I ask Maddy Williams this over coffee. Purdue women’s soccer player, Maddy Williams that is. (She’s a Purdue women’s soccer player in the way Glenn Robinson is just a Purdue men’s basketball player by the way, but we’ll get to that later.)
Back out there means the first time being back out on a field since she tore her ACL in the last spring practice of what turned out to be her first senior season. Back out there means before she put the finishing touches on the greatest career in Purdue Women’s soccer history.