Sitting underneath the clear, heat skies and hovering palm timber at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, North Carolina Braveness ahead Ashley Sanchez says she seems like a rookie once more. It’s early February and Sanchez is digesting as a lot data as she will be able to about her new staff, one which, a month earlier, was one in all her rivals within the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League.
Sanchez was the headliner in a blockbuster commerce on draft day, an occasion that all the time brings some type of league-wide shakeup. North Carolina traded $250,000 in allocation cash and the fifth general choose to the Washington Spirit for the U.S. worldwide. Sanchez wrote on her Instagram the following day that she was “shocked and heartbroken” to depart her first skilled membership. Just a few weeks later, nevertheless, she finds herself extra at peace with the change.
“I believe it’s nonetheless a course of,” Sanchez stated, talking to The Equalizer final month. “It’s been exhausting as a result of all the things simply occurred so quick and everybody knew about it just about instantly, in order that stopped the processing nearly instantly as a result of persons are coming at me making an attempt to determine how this occurred, what occurred, and I nonetheless didn’t even know what was happening. Then, within the subsequent week, you’re in a brand new place with an entire completely different staff. [I’m] positively adjusting however every single day has been simpler.”
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