This story of persistence and positive thinking is so unlikely that even the subject could not have imagined it.
Lucas Meek played a total of three minutes in his first two seasons for the Washington men’s soccer team.
That he would become one of the team’s biggest stars in his third season, helping lead the Huskies into Sunday’s Sweet 16 matchup against Marshall, seems more a script for Hollywood than real life. But here is how it happened.
It was a dream come true for Meek, who went to Mercer Island High School, when the Huskies recruited him.