Many collegiate walk-ons share similarities in their stories. Some invited walk-ons will join the team without a formal tryout and other walk-ons will enroll at the university and try out for the team. They then spend their freshman year competing for playing time and potentially a scholarship. The story played out much differently for Zoe Zaharakis, a soccer goalkeeper from Bethlehem, Pa.
Zaharakis, competed at a high level during her high school career, but due to being undersized at only 5 feet and 2 inches, she found herself largely unrecruited with only one D3 offer.