The announcement came quickfire after Boston had already drafted their first three players of the draft: with the ninth pick, the Boston Breakers select Margaret “Midge” Purce from Harvard.
“I was just as flustered and stupefied by everything as everyone else was,” Purce said about hearing her name called in the media scrum afterwards. “It was a great rush and I’m super excited. I can’t really articulate well how I’m feeling but it’s a great feeling.”
Purce now joins fellow first-round draftees Rose Lavelle, Morgan Andrews, and Ifeoma Onumonu, all part of head coach Matt Beard’s plan to revitalize his midfield and add more punch in the attack alongside Natasha Dowie.