Angela Kulikov technically was supposed to be taking a break.
Practice for the USC women’s tennis team was over, so she lay in her bed in the dark, wearing an oversized T-shirt and USC pajama bottoms, talking with Becca Weissmann, her roommate and fellow junior team captain.
But as Kulikov told Weissmann about the message she received on Instagram — a girl seeking advice for tryouts to play quarterback at her middle school — Kulikov could no longer be still. She grabbed her football and stood in the center of her room, giving Weissmann her phone.
When Weissmann hit record, the college student became a coach.