Rapinoe says, 'Everything in life happens in women's sports.'
Five months after her final NWSL game — a send-off no one could have anticipated, with an Achilles’ tendon tear that robbed her of a “” with the — Megan Rapinoe is finally starting to stretch her legs again in the world of women’s sports. “I was really intentional about having a little more space going into retirement, and then tearing my Achilles kind of blew that even more open.
“So I look at Caitlin and what she did, it’s just so much more than that. There’s a huge storyline around Dawn Staley and South Carolina, this incredible, undefeated season, and the reason it got talked about so much was because Caitlin was going absolutely bonkers.
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