Rejection. It’s not a flat out no, but enough of one to knock you back, slightly stumbling for a brief moment followed by a sea of questions rolling one after the other. Is this it? Is this where the story begins and ends? The most prominent question: what’s next?
Sitting at a desk surrounded by classmates in a lecture at the University of Louisville, Gaby Vincent pulled up her laptop and watched the names, one after another, flash across the screen during the 2019 National Women’s Soccer League College Draft.
As the rounds and picks neared their inevitable end, Vincent sat with eyes glazed over as her name failed to appear.