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school. But the real value of sports, she said, was that it was often the only place it was OK not to think about her mom’s illness. Jodi Griffi n died Oct. 11, 2008, just days before Brooke played in a state semifi nal fi eld hockey game. “You have two hours to get out of your head and two hours to make my mom happy,” said Griffi n, who brings the same energy today as an attacker for the U.S. women’s World Cup team. “That’s what she wanted me to do.” Visiting her mother’s grave, a hawk landed near Griffi n. Then she saw another in the car. And then another and, as she went on with her life, even more in places where she hadn’t seen one before. It all made sense. “Anytime I was working out or during games or anything that was hard, I’d always see a hawk fl y by our fi eld,” she said. “We’d always see a hawk at the cemetery or my dad would see a hawk driving by. We think it’s my mom giving us a sign. She’s like a hawk watching over us, fl ying by us.” Griffi n’s career accomplishments


at Maryland read as if she was a star from the moment she arrived, starting all 23 games as a redshirt freshman. However, her fi ve years also were an


unending battle with injuries, starting with a freshman year lost to an ACL tear suffered just days into fall ball. The next year, bone-to-bone rubbing


Griffin, a Boston College assistant, hugs her sister, Brindi, a freshman at Maryland, after their game March 8.


in Griffi n’s knee was so bad she sat out in the fall.


“SHE SAT ON MY BED, AND SHE WAS LIKE, ‘LISTEN, I WILL GIVE YOU A SIGN I AM NEAR YOU. I’M WATCHING YOU. I’M PROTECTING YOU. I PROMISE YOU I WILL GIVE YOU A SIGN.’”


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As a redshirt sophomore, she extended her tendon so far out of her knee, it looked as if a bone had broken. As a junior, she mistook a crack in her left foot bone for a sprained ankle. Every time trainers wrapped it tight, they made it worse. Finally, as a senior, Griffi n drew a hard foul splitting two Syracuse defenders in an NCAA semifi nal. Two days later, she played with broken ribs as Maryland defeated North Carolina for its second straight NCAA title. “I probably had a 40-year-old knee at 18 years old,” said Griffi n, whose sister, Brindi, is a freshman attacker at Maryland and played on the 2015 U.S. U19 team. “I would tell myself every day, ‘I watched my mom going through surgery, radiation, everything possible. I know my pain is not as bad as hers.’ She still took care of all four of us girls and never complained along the way. I knew my knee and ACL was nothing compared to what she went through.” Griffi n connected with Boston College coach Acacia Walker through Terps coach Cathy Reese and, within weeks of graduating, Griffi n was in Boston, looking for an apartment, one that was private but close to campus. Her fi rst morning there, she heard the hawk. When she saw the nest, her heart leapt. “I said, ‘Wow,’” Griffi n


remembered. “This really is the right place for me right now.” USL


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