HEART OF A CHAMPION After her volleyball career was derailed by injury, Macy Capen ‘12 turned her attention to founding the non-profit organization, seven + heart.
Macy Capen spent seven years of her life defining herself as a volleyball player. Now, she’s defined by her calling to impact families globally. Capen is not far removed from her high school days, having graduated from Orange Lutheran in 2012. And the person she became at OLu continues to frame who she is today. “In high school, I put so much value into myself and into being a good volleyball player. But I learned that at the end of my life, when I stand before God, He won’t want to know how many kills I had in a championship volleyball game. He will care about how well I loved other people and how much I loved Him.” And for that reason alone, in 2015, Capen founded seven + heart, a non-profit organization that makes and delivers baby swaddles to orphanages and hospitals across the globe. 32
Seven + heart, which refers to Jeremiah 24:7, was born out of Capen’s desire to move on from the sport she dedicated herself to for nearly a decade, after injuries derailed her athletic career. “I was a soccer player my whole life, but I got burnt out, so I decided to play volleyball,” said Capen of how she got into volleyball. “I had never played, so I made the OLu freshman team barely and the next year, I made the JV team barely. But I began to play club and I got better.” It was during her club matches that Texas Christian University caught wind of Capen and began to recruit her. “My senior year of high school, I knew I had a gift in volleyball to glorify Christ,” Capen said. “I had something that could get me through college.” Capen earned an athletic scholarship to TCU and began in the fall of 2012.
