MOBILE, Ala. – All it takes is one. One chance encounter, one opportunity that can change an individual's fortunes. For University of South Alabama women's track and field student-athlete Emilie Berge, it was one seemingly random Facebook message that began charting a course that has since seen her earn multiple All-America honors.
And the message arrived just after the resident of Iveland, Vest-Agder, Norway, thought she had made a decision to remain home and study after finishing high school.
"There was a representative who reached out to me just before that, but I thought I just wanted to study in Norway," she recalled.