During her sophomore year of high school in Kennesaw, Georgia, Allison Leone said she remembers first starting to look at schools where she could extend her soccer career. Playing for Tophat Soccer Club of Atlanta at the time, a teammate approached her with some advice.
“At one club practice, she was like, ‘Allison, you should look at WKU,'” Leone said.
That player was Caitlin Hesse, an Atlanta resident, who graduated from WKU last year after playing four years for the Lady Toppers soccer team.
“I talked to the coaches and just fell in love," Leone said.