Hope Solo and Megan Rapinoe take questions from young fans in Seattle. (Dean Rutz/The Seattle Times)
Hope Solo and Megan Rapinoe made an appearance in Seattle to answer questions from young fans, as part of the U.S. team’s #SheBelieves campaign.
As Matt Pentz of The Seattle Times reports, one of the youngsters asked: “Outside the field, what are the biggest setbacks you’ve had?”
Solo, who’s had more than her share of setbacks, first complimented the questioner, then took the opportunity to offer a lesson in resilience.
“My teammates have seen me go through so much,” she said. “We all have a lot of personal stuff, and we’ve all overcome so much. Sometimes people know about it, other times people have no idea.
“The only way to overcome is by enduring. You may have made a big mistake, and you may have made a bad decision, and you pay the consequences for them, but you don’t just give up. You keep going. And you learn from your mistakes.”
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