Game Changers: Incredible Stories of Resilience in Sports
The Game Changers Podcast includes conversations with athletes and coaches exploring the triumphs and tribulations in sports. We uncover the untold stories of glory and defeat and how it defined our guests' journeys. From overcoming setbacks to achieving extraordinary feats, each show will bring the listener inspiring tales of resilience that extends beyond the scoreboard.
Whether it's a comeback from injury, a stunning victory or the lessons learned in defeat, Game Changers is your front row seat to the indomitable human spirit in the arena of sports and performance.
Game Changers: Incredible Stories of Resilience in Sports
The Long Road to Soccer Glory with Cricket Basa - Episode 19
Cricket Basa was a standout out soccer player at Montpelier High School where she was an All-State selection 3 times, the Times Argus Newspaper Soccer Player of the Year twice, the Capital League Player of the Year twice and played in the VT State Championship game in 2016. After she tore her ACL in high school, she went to Holy Cross on a soccer scholarship. During the first couple weeks ofher college soccer season, she tore her other ACL and was forced back into a grueling rehab.
Cricket left Holy Cross and walked on to the University of Vermont soccer team. She fought her way to a starting position and then won the Most Outstanding Player of the America East Championship in 2021 after she scored the game-winning goal in the 80th minute to give UVM its first America East Championship.
Listen in to her incredible story from the depths of multiple knee injuries to the glory of a championship season!!
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