“I’m like actually kind of shaking right now,” Northwestern’s Maddie Zimmer told the media in her first postgame comments on Sunday. You could tell that she was simply amazed by the emotions of the moment, and no one could blame her.
It seems that Northwestern brought a fitting end to more than just its season with a 2-0 national championship win over Liberty in Ann Arbor.
Sure, the victory completed a momentous run that gave NU its first ever NCAA title in the sport and just its ninth ever in school history, but when season started, the team itself wasn’t even complete.