“I really believe that she’ll never know how many people she helped,”
Alina Atayan’s line on the stat sheet doesn’t jump off the page. In her four years of eligibility with the Marquette women’s lacrosse team, she shot the ball twice, picked up three ground balls and dished one assist.
Any discussion of Alina Atayan’s impact, both at and beyond Marquette, has to start with the collection of box scores buried deep in the drawer. There’s nothing on any recap that shows how much of a difference she made by running domestic violence workshops. There’s no “Teammates Helped Per 40 Minutes” column to reflect how many times she stayed after practice to work with someone.