At some point this year, Tobin Heath left Providence Park as a Thorn for the last time, only at that time, nobody knew it. She had just finished training, in all likelihood, concluding her session the same she had concluded so many other sessions before. At some point before signing with Manchester United, she collected her equipment, left her home field, and embarked on a path that would take her from the Thorns. If anybody knew, they would have stopped and caught the moment.
But who could have known with any certainty that those would be Heath’s last moments as a Thorn?