Paige Monaghan at the Sellick Bowl. Monaghan will graduate at the end of the fall semester to pursue a professional soccer career. Photo courtesy of Jimmy Lafakis.
Paige Monaghan shrieked for the soccer ball. She glided up the right side of the field, moving in the vein of a galloping gazelle. She received a touch pass from just outside the top of the penalty box, leaving one of two University of Notre Dame defenders mired in her tracks. The other defender took the proper angle to stop the Butler senior forward, but she might as well have been maneuvering in molasses.