July 23, 2008
SPECIAL EDITION PODCAST WITH ROSS AND CASEY MELVIN
Story by Graham Hayes, espn.com
Sometimes making a difference beyond the playing field begins with finding your voice.
Or in the case of Western Carolina softball standout Lauren Ross, finding another voice that makes your own that much more powerful. When Christine Hornak took over the Western Carolina program two years ago, just a year after the program had played its first game, the new coach knew that in Ross, she was inheriting a player who started all 61 of the team's games as a freshman in 2006 and ranked sixth in the conference with 11 home runs. And she knew that based on Ross' standout prep pitching career, she also had a player capable of contributing in a number of ways.
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