The US U17 women’s soccer team beat Haiti on the pitch, but US keeper Bryane Heaberlin displayed great sportsmanship when the match ended. Reagan Alexander reports for tonic.com.
This remarkable young woman and her teammates, who have trained to compete at the highest level of their sport at such a very young age, have managed to retain the emotional faculties to be so cognizant, even in the heady rush of victory, of the suffering of others. So much lip service is paid to the hollow cliche that the word “sportsmanship” has become, but it took a young woman who may not even have her driver’s license yet to remind us what it can truly mean.