Izabella Olivio’s journey to becoming one of the top players for the Huston-Tillotson Rams is unique in that soccer wasn’t the first sport she played growing up.
In fact, Olivio played more games on the softball field than on the pitch.
“It was very new being someone that never really played soccer growing up,” Olivio said. “My sport was softball and coming into soccer, it was very new. It was something that I had to learn as well. It felt to me more like I was catching up, so I was trying to learn things that girls already knew at a young age and that were instilled in them.”
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