When Don Jones, the Jordan High School girls varsity soccer coach, called down the bench, and Taylor Ray, a talented mid-fielder who tore her second A.C.L. (anterior cruciate ligament) at the end of last year, motioned for me to come help her warm up on the sidelines, I turned to look at her parents, Rusty and Janet, and could see the trepidation in their eyes. “I was just hoping and praying to get through this moment,” Janet would later tell me. After an extensive active warm-up and a few more minutes of calming Taylor’s nerves, she bounced up and down on the sideline waiting for the ball to go off the field. A few seconds later, the referee signaled her in, and Taylor jogged out to join her teammates. Once play resumed, she quickly fouled a girl, aggressively defending from behind. “Not much has changed,” I said to a nearby parent, referring to Taylor’s trademark fearless style of play. I then looked over at parents and smiled knowing that Taylor had taken a giant step in her rehabilitation.