Since she was a child, Roo Yarnell-Williams’ life has been surrounded by sports. Yarnell-Williams, now the University of Colorado Boulder’s soccer freshman midfielder, is the youngest of five girls. Her sister, Makenna, played soccer for Northern Arizona and her other sister, Chelsea, was a diver at Pepperdine University. When asked to describe what it was like to grow up with four siblings, Yarnell-Williams used one word: “intense.”
“Everything was competitive,” Yarnell-Williams said. “I never wanted to lose. So, I feel like really being in that type of sports family, it pushed me to want to be the best and want to be the best me.