Stephanie Everett

Ah!

For me, a girl who knows that, like, this is the end of the road for me at this point in time.

I'm like, this is...

sickening.

I'm going to have the most fun of my entire life.

I'm playing against the other captains were put on the other team as me.

And I get this, this moment where I am playing against my teammates who've been there for me.

I'm facing a guy on my team.

He's pitching to me and he strikes me out.

And I just like laugh because it was him and the catcher were my teammates.

And I was like, ah, you got me guys.

I get into the dugout and a coach is

who's not from my school is like, what the fuck are you smiling about?

Why are you smiling?

You just struck out.

And I was like, time to hang up the cleats.

And that was like my last experience with baseball.

And so but in terms of like finding my identity through that, like I really think playing baseball was such a formative experience.

aspect of like the resilience that I have, the ability to like overcome, you know, any adversity that comes my way is definitely from being in these spaces where I couldn't fully be myself, but still had to perform at a high level.

Yeah.