Players come and go in the NWSL every year. For all of them, getting drafted is a dream come true. But the hard reality for many of those draftees is that they often don’t see many minutes — if any — in their rookie year. In a highly competitive league like the NWSL, even players who have had promising careers in college sometimes don’t succeed.
Hard work, patience, and hours and hours of training that we don’t see are just a part of what every player in this league needs to put in if they want a chance to get minutes.