What comes to mind is the most successful soccer team I was ever a part of. Being from Arkansas, our team was rarely ever able to compete with the high quality teams from Texas and Oklahoma. In fact, many girls left our team to play on a team two hours away with better resources and higher quality coaches.

Eventually, the teams we were on got changed from being split by grade to the year you were born, so we were all mixed with new girls, and we were put with two new coaches from California. They were a married couple, Kris and Bill and, to this day, were the best coaches I have ever had. In the span of two years, we went from barely being able to compete against regional teams to winning a national championship in Colorado, playing teams from California, Florida, Louisiana and New Jersey.

We worked so well together because we had a new coach who actually believed we could improve and be successful. We also trained and practiced harder, and this helped improve the chemistry with our new team over the span of a couple years. I realized that we all worked well together because we were so different, and complimented each other well. Each of us having different attributes to bring to the table.