Alyse LaHue joined the Chicago Red Stars eight years ago as an intern under Peter Wilt and then-GM Marcia McDermott. Through the better part of a decade, through four leagues, through tumultuous seasons and staff turnovers, LaHue made the organization her life and eventually rose to become the new General Manager, where she's steered the club through the early years of the NWSL era with grace and aplomb.
Which must have made her announcement earlier today all the more difficult.
LaHue wrote on her blog that she would be leaving the Red Stars at the end of this season.