girls

“That’s my No. 1 focus. Not their volleyball coach, not their mentor in volleyball. It’s hard enough for these teenage girls. They don’t need to hear their dad yelling.”

Over the course of a few months, they told me how the girls had become addicted to what they now suspect was spice, and would come home so high they would collapse.

Like most young girls with big dreams, there’s only one thing that can slow her forward momentum and that is, of course, a boy.

There are also the survivors themselves — over 1,000 women, many of whom who were underage girls at the time, according to the FBI.

But I never had that barrier of 'girls can't play' or 'it's not girls' football' because my family and my brother were some of the best examples of it.