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idfielder Stuart Pope was having the best season of her college career in 2013 when she stepped on the field for UK’s final regular season home game. But a non-contact injury forced her to regain the fitness and mental form that took her two seasons — and a lot of prodding from head coach Jon Lipsitz — to gain. For the second time at UK, Pope had to show resilience or face the prospects of a life without soccer.
RESILIENCY Women’s soccer star recovers from her second major knee injury
Story by Kevin Erpenbeck | Photos by Kernel Staff ciate ligament (ACL) tear. But Lipsitz was confident Pope could come back, for this was the new Stuart Pope. This wasn’t the same player he had dealt, battled and argued with for the first two years of her career. That was the old Pope, a player with still the same amount of potential but unwilling to do the work required to meet it. “It’s very difficult for the player when a coach is always on you wanting more all the time, and it’s very difficult for the coach where you know someone is capable of more, but they’re not producing. ” Lipsitz said. Desperate to see a different Pope, Lipsitz presented her with the first challenge of her UK career at the end of her sophomore season: either put forth the effort needed to be great, or continue to be all potential but never special. That’s when the signs of a stronger, resilient Pope emerged. She took the coach’s challenge to heart, and did “a complete 180°” on her career. “My (junior year) really started the spring semester of my sophomore year,” Pope said. “I came in with the mindset that I hadn’t earned anything yet, and I was going to work as hard as I could. I changed my diet,
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The autumn breeze of late October whisked across the grass at the UK Soccer Complex as Stuart Pope took her position at midfield on Senior Day of 2013. The junior had had a stellar season, and was ready to extend its brilliance as she and the Cats prepared for the postseason. The early-game elation of fans and teammates only excited Pope more in the first five minutes of the match against LSU. But in the sixth minute, the cheers were silenced as a painful scream pierced the air. Confused and concerned, the attention of spectators was diverted to midfield, where Pope lay with her face in the grass, unable to move her left knee. “Why,” she wondered. “Why me? Why now?” She lay motionless on the field, all too familiar with the pain, and knew her brilliant season was now over. Devastated and heartbroken, head coach Jon Lipsitz watched Pope as she was carried off to the sideline, thinking about how hard the junior leader had worked all season and how much she had overcame. From the moment he started recruiting the Georgia-born player, Lipsitz knew the unique potential Pope always had. Now, she was finally fulfilling that potential, only to be dealt the most difficult challenge of her career: a second comeback from an anterior cru-
Above: Midfielder Stuart Pope, then a junior, tore her ACL, MCL and meniscus during a play on Senior Day against LSU at the UK Soccer Complex on Oct. 27, 2013. She missed the postseason. | Photo by Tessa Lighty Top: Pope, now a senior, was a reserve in her sophomore season for coach Jon Lipsitz after starting 17 games as a freshman. But her junior season was cut short by a knee injury that Pope called “frustrating.” “I told her I thought it would be a full year until she got her touch back,” Lipsitz said. | Photo by Michael Reaves
It’s frustrating and annoying and you want to give up a lot of the time. But you don’t. You find a way to push through. STUART POPE, senior midfielder
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Books, unlike movies, allow readers to use imagination NICK GRAY Kernel Columnist
Movies are wonderful things. They are visual masterpieces (when done correctly), and they can grip the viewer in several different ways. They are just not more entertaining than books. Emotionally speaking, books are left up to the reader’s interpretation. Everyone had a high
school English teacher who talked about seemingly each word of the book and what it meant for the story's plot and for life in general. My English teacher of that elk was Mrs. Hunter. Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights was her favorite novel, and she ripped the mammoth to shreds. Every
conversation was chewed up and spit out in four different ways. At the time, I had not the slightest bit of idea or ounce of care to figure out her points about the character development and progression of Mr. Heathcliffe. The book was massive, and my attention span was not as such. I later understood why she was so crazed over characters and facets of the book when we read The Great Gatsby. The lessons she was trying to teach my classmates and me was that books have
to lend to the reader's imagination. It is up to the reader's imagination. The reader gets to think for him or her own self instead of observing a twohour film with weakly-developed characters — by standards of authors — and the director's thoughts strewn across the screen. Authors of books know that, to accomplish their goals of capturing the interest and imagination of the reader, they must show explicit detail in scenes and of characters. The layers of implicit reasoning in books are written about in more detail in
well-written stories. And with the imagination and the connections between author and reader comes the many ways that a book can be interpreted. In the film world, if the way a viewer interprets a movie's themes and overlying message is different than what the director's views are, either the director is considered to be shoddy or the viewer is considered to be an inadequate evaluator. As written in a 2005 article in Time Magazine, "Readers of a novel have already made their own per-
fect movie version. They have visualized it, fleshed out the locations and set the pace." Books are made into movies. Not the other way around. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It's never "The book wasn't really like the movie!" It is "Goodness, the movie was not really like the book." Nick Gray is the managing editor of the Kentucky Kernel. His column appears every Thursday. Email ngray@kykernel.com.
Barbie book falsly depicts women and technology ANNE HALLIWELL Kernel Columnist
In a move that should not be as surprising as it is, Barbie has found another way to screw over young women. A new licensed book, Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer, published by Random House, epically fails to portray women as able to code, or even touch computers without messing something up. The book follows Barbie through a brief plotline that is sort of peripherally related to coding, if you squint. Barbie, a computer engineering student in this installment of what is, no doubt, a diverse and inspirational array of career-focused children’s books, does not appear to have any rudimentary knowledge of laptop use. Over the course of the
book, Barbie is quick to inform the reader that although she is designing a cute, educational game, she will need the help of two male characters for all of the coding. She then displays a profound lack of ability to handle a computer virus, receives the help of the male characters to fix her sister’s computer and, in the end, determines that she can be a computer engineer too! One of these things is not like the other. Here’s the thing, Random House: women should absolutely be encouraged to go into STEM careers. Despite the existence of associations for women in math, science and engineering careers, we occupy far fewer than half of the positions in most of those areas. And informing young girls, even indirectly, that men need to code for them and fix what they are apparently unable to handle themselves? That’s not helping anything. The idea that women can’t or shouldn’t go into
computer-related fields has been around for a while. And sadly, this book’s message – get the boys to fix things for you, Barbie – plays right into the issues that women with technology already face. The Internet has come to the rescue, thank the Powers That Be, with a series of “remixes” of the book. In a particularly meta-solution to the problematic storyline, Georgia Tech Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. candidate Casey Fiesler reworked the wording to let Barbie explore the issues that women in STEM fields face, like sexism. “If you don’t like the narrative, change it,” Fiesler wrote on her website, something other websites have done as well. But if we’re going to encourage women in books to code, and we should, Fiesler’s empowering take on the issue is the right one. Anne Halliwell is the news editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Email ahalliwell@ kykernel.com.
Hot yoga is refreshing way to relax away from school DIMITRI SILVA Lifestyle Columnist
You should see the looks I get when I tell the boys that the reason I couldn’t hang out and watch the game was because I was at yoga. It’s as if I’ve let them all down in some deep, traumatizing way. But is the idea of men doing yoga really that bad? As one of the most rapidly growing forms of exercise in the U.S., yoga is no longer just for hippies and the enlightened, it’s for me and you too. At first I shared the same sentiments as most of my fellow men because there is a certain stigma that comes with the idea of fitness via yoga, but when a serious injury sidelined me from all forms of exercise for an extended period of time I was forced to reconsider. Immediately following my first-ever hot yoga class I felt completely refreshed and new – that is once I recovered from the initial exhaustion. I then realized what I had refused to acknowledge for the 20plus years of my life: yoga is hard. I was dumbfounded when what I had previously considered “glorified stretching” left me sore for two days. Quite possibly the
biggest selling point to yoga is the multi-dimensional benefits that it provides. Not only will yoga help build strength, it will also increase flexibility and decrease the likelihood
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Take a little time to invest in more than the size of your biceps...” of future injury. Let’s be clear, I’m not claiming that it will get you shredded just in time for spring break, but the benefits are undeniable. Professional yoga instructor at Hot Yoga Louisville and former University of Florida cheerleader Meredith Conroy weighed in on some of the benefits of hot yoga, particularly for guys. “So many men are strong and locked into their muscles,” she said. “Yoga opens all those channels up and promotes the balance between strength and flexibility and agility.”
Conroy is undoubtedly one of the best in the business with her client list including notable figures such as actor Colin Farrell, NBA players Kevin Durant and Nazr Mohammed (a former UK player), and countless collegiate athletes (myself included). In our time together she made sure to mention that yoga is not strictly about physical benefits, there are many mental benefits to yoga as well as a few social benefits. “Hot ladies go to hot yoga … just saying. You get fit and see pretty girls.” That’s right fellas, if the health benefits of yoga aren’t enough to get you through the door, maybe the lure of pretty girls is. Go for the girls, and fall in love with the benefits. I promise you won’t be disappointed. Take a little time to invest in more than just the size of your biceps, because being fit is about much more than how much metal you can toss. Trust me. If you’re on campus and interested in trying out yoga classes you can step into one of Corrie’s Sunrise Yoga classes on Mondays at 7:30 a.m. or try a yoga class at Pure Barre on E. High Street in the Chevy Chase neighborhood. Either way you’ve got to get out and get your zen on, ASAP. Yours in style, The Jive Child
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The gift(card) that keeps on giving Taylor Clements
othing says, “I love you” quite like a gift card (I hope you can tell that was sarcasm). No feeling compares to the little jolt of excitement you get when you feel a lump in the card envelope, hoping it’s a wad of cash so you can actually afford to treat your friends to pizza on game day. Then you open it. And a small plastic card falls out, along with your dreams of pizza. But if you must be that person, if you’re absolutely out of ideas, if you’re pressed for time, if you’re buying for the person who has everything, if you’re at your wit’s end, here are some acceptable options. 1. Alfalfa Restaurant
Rule number one: try your best to stay local. It’s a little more personal that way. Alfalfa’s has a stellar breakfast menu and the best tomato bisque I’ve ever had. They use local ingredients and have many vegetarian options, so this would be good for any of the locavore folks in your life. 2. Coffea
Their drinks are so much better than Starbucks and they’ll thank you immensely when they have free drinks during the arctic weather Kentucky is sure to experience this winter. 3. Michler’s Florist
So, this one’s a little unconventional. Michler’s is an awesome florist/greenhouse on East Maxwell and their arrangements and terrariums are killer. Plants and flowers are therapeutic and are a great way to liven up any space. A gift card from a florist allows the recipient to order themselves flowers on the coldest, darkest days of the year for a little pick-me-up.
4. The Morris Book Shop
For your hipster friend. They feature Kentucky authors and have a great staff picks selection. Plus, you can pick from a selection of oddball knick-knacks to add to your gift. 5. Any local boutique
If you’ve ever taken a stroll around the Maxwell/High Street shops, you know what I mean. A gift card from Bluetique, Bella Rose, Shop Twenty Something, AccesHERize, Shine on Vine, Mimi’s Place or Cat Couture are sure to please the ladies in your life. Try Logan’s of Lexington or Stuart Mercer Gentleman’s Shoppe for the men. 6. North Lime Coffee & Donuts
Three words: weekend donut runs. North Lime offers a vast and unique selection of Donuts unlike anything else you will find in Lexington. Maple Bacon or Peanut Butter Honey? They have them. Marble Macchiato or Pumpkin Spice? Those as well. The coffee is good as well.
Looking for a gift to please even the hardest to shop for? UK Bookstore, Kennedy’s and Kroger offer a well-rounded selection. Or try Cinemark and Collin’s Bowling for an entertaining night out!
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6. Mimi’s Place 7. AccessHERize 8. Shine on Vine 9. The Morris Book Shop 10. Pure Barre Fitness Studio classes
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SPORTS
UK Hoops takes care of business JOSHUA HUFF Kernel Columnist
PHOTO BY JONATHAN KRUEGER | STAFF
Senior guard Jennifer O'Neill takes a short jump shot during the second half of UK Hoops’ 91-62 victory over Morehead State in front of 1,500 elementary school students on Wednesday.
UK eased all doubts of a letdown on Wednesday when it shot out to a 14-0 run to open the game against Morehead State and carried that momentum to a convincing 91-62 win that concluded its stretch of three games in six days. “It's a very tough stretch we've just come out of,” said head coach Matthew Mitchell. “And (I’m) just very, very happy we were able to get the victory today. I want to compliment Morehead State. I thought they played very hard, really hung in there and kept playing.” The game was never in
question as No. 13 UK carried over its suffocating defense from Monday’s victory against No. 8 Baylor. Morehead struggled to find any rhythm against the taller, faster and more talented roster of the Cats. Senior guard Bria Goss got things rolling for UK, draining her first three-pointer of the game after the Cats won the tip-off. The combination of fellow guards Jennifer O’Neill and Linnae Harper sealed the deal after that, and did so before the Eagles could even break a sweat. The Cats used a 17-1 run to stretch their lead to 40-12 in the first half, but Morehead’s Casey Ryans’ nine points helped cut UK’s lead to 45-24 just before halftime. Despite the 21-point lead, the Cats struggled to shoot the ball in the first half, going 1645 from the field. But their 31
rebounds helped separate themselves from the Eagles, who experienced their own struggles by going 0-for-3 from beyond the arc while committing 12 turnovers in the first half. Fortunately for UK, the lead was close to insurmountable. The Cats continued to struggle from the field and the charity stripe in the second half as the Eagles narrowed the lead to 13 points with six minutes remaining. But UK maintained its lead because of its 20-rebound advantage and Morehead’s 24 turnovers. Until the Cats can find a rhythm on offense, they are going to have to live and die by their “40 minutes of dread” defense that, so far, has wreaked havoc upon opponents. Against Morehead State, UK scored 35 points off of opposing turnovers, and scored 30
more points off of secondchance opportunities. “We had a hard time keeping them off the glass,” said Eagles head coach Greg Todd. It’s apparent that Mitchell’s preseason goal of winning games using pressure defense and up-tempo offense is coming to fruition. UK’s subpar shooting performance Wednesday doesn’t belay the talent that is evident on this team. Some teams will run their opponents out of the gym while others will use a constant combination of offense and defense to break opponents down and force them to make mistakes. This UK team falls in the latter. “We found out a few things about our team,” Mitchell said. “And now it's going to be great to have a couple days to practice. We need it badly right now.”
Simpson talks bipartisan politics By Majorie Kirk news@kykernel.com
Worsham Theater was filled with laughter and moments of humble silence Wednesday night as the charismatic former Sen. Alan Simpson spoke about fiscal policy and bipartisan politics. Simpson, who served as a U.S. Senator from Wyoming and was a Republican Whip at one time in his career in Congress, focused on the effects that the growing national deficit will have on our generation and why it should inspire us to become politically involved. “That word — politics — comes from the Greek,” Simp-
son said. “Politics; poli- meaning many, and -tics, meaning blood-sucking insects.” Simpson spoke about how organizations like the Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons are dominating the attention of politicians, because they are more organized and better funded, and are fueling the deficit with their expenditures and entitlements instead of giving attention to other issues. “We borrow half a billion bucks every day; every buck we spend, we borrow 16 cents and we owe $17.8 trillion,” said Simpson. “You young people perk right up out there because you are the ‘skinnies’ and it is our gener-
ation, my generation, that did it to you.” Master of Public Administration graduate student Madison Holbrook, Lt. Gov. Crit Luallen, and President and CEO of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Trey Grayson made up the panel that discussed the unhealthy picture of our country’s fiscal policy described by Simpson. “It definitely paints somewhat of a bleak picture, but I can’t help but think that this generation has a great opportunity to make some changes on how our government is run,” Holbrook said. In response to the idea of our opportunities as a genera-
International Game Day displays fun of other cultures By Anne Halliwell news@kykernel.com
A small group of student library employees kicked off the International Game Day celebrations in the Hub at William T. Young Library Wednesday afternoon. Early on, the event mostly consisted of students from the Robert E. Hemenway Writing Center and digital desk who helped with the planning, said Toni Greider, the director of international programs for UK Libraries. “I’m not really worried about numbers,” Greider said. “Just the people who came, I want them to have a good time.”
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Greider offered attendees popcorn, water and soda as they entered the Hub for board games, corn hole and Wii bowling. Haley Gray, who played several rounds on the Wii with her fellow Writing Center employees, was already involved in building relationships with international students. The high school English education senior said UK Libraries holds an International Conversation Hour beginning at 5:30 on Wednesdays, which paved the way for their involvement in the game day. “It’s just kind of a fun, open place to get to know each other, work on conversation skills if need be.” Gray
said. “It’s just a great place.” Electrical engineering graduate student Si Chen played corn hole with other students and staff. The library employees support each other’s ventures, Chen said. He helped Greider with planning for a Chinese board game that may be included in next year’s event. “I’m an international student, so I’m willing to help and learn about other cultures,” Chen said. The event ran from 1 p.m. through 4 p.m. “I think it’s a good way to bring everyone together — there are a lot of international students,” Gray said. “It’s nice for us to hear about other cultures.”
tion, Simpson said that to move forward our generation had to stop trying to find who is to blame and search out the correct solutions. “The money guys will always take care of themselves,” Simpson said. “And there is a way to handle this — get in the game. Don’t just sit and carry a placard and bitch.” Luallen questioned how young students were going to become interested in joining politics if the only examples they see are of poor cooperation among politicians as she saw in the recent elections. “People were just turned off,” Luallen said. “The tragedy of that is how do we keep young people engaged
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Former Sen. Alan Simpson makes a point during his lecture on Wednesday in Worsham Theater.
and interested when they see that incredible amount of money being spent with confusing and negative messages, and I think in this election what they did was just to say ‘I’m not going to vote.’” Simpson urged young voters to change the perception
that they aren’t passionate about current events. “It is a very gratifying experience,” Simpson said. “To get in the game and legislate or put together the laws, that was a very pleasant experience to see the results of what you’ve done.”
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‘Main Event’ to raise money for philanthropy By Madison Gamble news@kykernel.com
Members of the UK Greek community are strapping on the gloves for the 2014 Main Event, the annual philanthropy boxing event sponsored by Alpha Delta Pi sorority and Sigma Chi fraternity. The two-night event will feature around 40 male fighters, and for the first time in Main Event history, two female boxers are registered to fight. The majority of the boxers competing are UK students. This year’s boxers have spent the past couple of months not just in the classroom, but training for this weekend. Will Tompkins, a chemical engineering junior and
member of Sigma Chi is this year’s coordinator for the Main Event and is responsible for making the event one for the books. Last year, Sigma Chi and Alpha Delta Pi raised over $55,000, Tompkins said. All proceeds will be split between the two chapters’ charities of choice, with Alpha Delta Pi giving all proceeds to the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Bluegrass and Sigma Chi’s proceeds going to DanceBlue. Between matches, sororities have the opportunity to perform dance routines and compete to be named “Main Event Sorority of the Year.” Prior to the two-night event the two Greek organizations are hosting fundraisers all week at local restaurants
and businesses. Weigh-ins will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Hugh Jass Burgers. According to the event’s Facebook page, The Main Event is sanctioned and insured through USA Boxing and is supported by the UK Boxing Club. Since it is amateur boxing, the organizations are required to have licensed physicians on hand during every match of the event in the case of injury. The Main Event will be held at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, at Heritage Hall in the Lexington Convention Center. Tickets can be purchased this week at the Singletary Ticket Office for $12 for one night or both nights can be purchased for $20. Tickets will also be sold at the door, while supplies last.
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Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)
Medial Meniscus Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL)
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Midfielder Stuart Pope tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), medial collateral ligament (MCL) and meniscus last season, a combination of injuries known in the medical world by the slang term “unhappy triad”.
Continued from page 1 lifestyle, fitness, attitude and work ethic in the four-month period.” Lipsitz said Pope took a leap of faith by making the decision to change her life, adding that choosing to do the work that’s asked of you only guarantees an opportunity for success, not success itself. It was that decision that impressed Lipsitz the most. “It’s scary,” Lipsitz said. “What if I fail after working my hardest? That’s why a lot of people don’t give their all, because they’re risking success. She took that risk, and she’s a much tougher kid than she was then. It’s all her.” With a newfound respect and trust of the midfielder, Lipsitz made Pope one of the leaders of the team in 2013, something that she could never have imagined happening during her first two
years. Pope shined in her new role, leading the team in goals for the majority of 2013, and ranking second in assists. Forward Arin Gilliland, another leader on the team, was blown away by the difference she was seeing in the fellow attacker, saying Pope became that premier player she was always capable of being “The leaps and bounds that she made as a player (in 2013) was like night and day,” Gilliland said. “She turned into this phenomenal athlete that could even play at a U-23 national camp.” Gilliland and Pope traded goals and assists throughout the season, connecting for six goals as an attacking duo on the season. Gilliland compared the connection they shared to “peanut butter and jelly,” flowing and coinciding with each other perfectly. “It’s like she had mapped out my run before I even
started making it,” Gilliland said. “She was always in my head and knew what was going on.” Then on that final home game of the season, Gilliland lost her mental partner, and the team lost its central attacking figure. As Pope lay on the field with teammates and physicians surrounding her, a million thoughts started going through her mind, with the foremost being the excruciating pain in her knee. Pope suffered a similar injury to the same knee in high school. She knew it was related to the ACL. But the midfielder still didn’t understand why it had to happen in her most productive year, when she was trying to turn her career around. And it scared her to think what the injury might mean for the rest of her days playing at UK or professionally. “When bad things happen
unexpectedly that may ruin something good that is happening, you kind of ask why,” Pope said. “You put the blame on other things and think life is unfair. I was in that mindset at first.” As her injury was being tended to on the bench, Lipsitz turned to speak to Pope. But instead of offering words of encouragement to “butter up” the injury for Pope, Lipsitz said two words to the first-year leader. “You know,” Lipsitz said. “Yeah, I know. And I’m going to come back strong,” Pope responded. She was done with the self-proclaimed “pity-party,” and her coach was glad to hear it. After getting an MRI scan, Pope was diagnosed with an “unhappy triad,” a slang term given to an injury that consists of a tear to the ACL, medial collateral ligamet (MCL) and medial meniscus. It’s an injury that is seen as career-threatening and entails a long road of rehabbing to even get the knee back to walking condition. Considering this was her second ACL tear, it was natural for Pope to wonder if it was possible she’d ever see the soccer field again. But when Pope began the rehab process after her surgery, she noticed something different than the rehab process she went through in high school: her leg was stronger. She was going through the recovery steps at a much faster and easier pace. Pope worked tirelessly with the UK athletic training staff and the sports medicine doctors at UK Hospital, spending about five hours a day on mobility, flexing and extending the knee, and strengthening for swelling control. After an offseason of rehabbing, the knee returned to its former condition quicker than originally expected. Lipsitz alluded to Pope’s body being “overly fit” as a reason for it. Pope referred to her mental transformation as another reason. “It’s frustrating and annoying, and you want to give up a lot of the time. But you don’t,” Pope said. “You find a way to push through.”
The now-senior leader was ready to return to the midfield on opening day of 2014, wanting to get back to the path she started the year prior. While Lipsitz saw that Pope was physically back to form, he knew it would take her longer to mentally return to the attacker she once was. “I told her I thought it would be a full year until she got her touch back,” Lipsitz said. He and the rest of the Cats saw the player with the unique talent make her complete return when Pope scored her first goal of the season on Oct. 19, just eight days before the anniversary of her injury. Elated and relieved, Pope turned to leap into the arms of the first teammate that greeted her — her old attacking partner, Gilliland. “She was so excited, and I was so excited for her,” Gilliland said. “I did a littlegirl jump in the air after she scored, and I was right there to catch her too. But what’s so weird is that Stuart and I never hug; we’re not affectionate. The fact that we did then says so much about what we felt and how much it meant to her and me.” In the weeks following her first goal, Lipsitz noticed a better soccer player in Pope
than ever prior to her injury. “When you come back from an injury like an ACL, you’re always wondering if it’s you that’s not mentally there, or if it’s your knee that’s not physically there; what combination is it,” Pope said. “Now, hopefully, it flows and comes, and I can play more free.” She got up when it was thought she couldn’t. She rose to the challenge when she could have accepted defeat. Lipsitz knows the player he recruited four years ago is better now because of the challenge he presented to her at the end of her sophomore year. Teammates like Gilliland know their fellow Cat is tougher now because of the way she recovered from the severe knee injury last year. And because of her experiences and the challenges she faced at UK, Pope knows what it means to be called resilient. “Being here and being mentored under Jon has really sharpened my ideals that I have come to practice more,” Pope said. “The discipline I have for soccer carries over to anything else I’m going through. It’s taught me this incredible work ethic, time management and passion for doings in my life to succeed.”
PHOTO BY JONATHAN KRUEGER | STAFF
Pope, shown here in an August match against Ohio, recovered from her injury in time for the 2014 season but did not score a goal until Oct. 19.