This is the third installment of a five-part series on athletes returning to UTA’s sports teams after the pandemic shortened their senior seasons.
Senior infielder Aileen Garcia was left with uncertainty when her senior season ended prematurely. The COVID-19 pandemic made her feel like things weren’t finished, and she was left wondering what could have been.
“At the beginning of March, we were all suddenly clicking, and everything was falling into place where it should've been,” Garcia said. “That competition and that want of trying to win and be successful kind of drove me to come back another year.