- Jul 20, 2014
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Anyone who’s ever attended a graduation ceremony knows the commencement speaker faces a very special challenge: Be inspiring. Use soaring rhetoric. And say something that may echo for years after.
This commencement season is no exception, but one of the best pieces of advice delivered so far was a bit more blunt: “Demand the ball.”
If you haven’t heard Abby Wambach’s address to Barnard College graduates, do yourself a favor and look it up. You may think this a surprising source from an unusual location, but I’d encourage you to watch the video and hear the soccer legend deliver her impassioned words.
“Demand the ball” is a lesson that Wambach learned from another soccer legend, Michelle Akers. Wambach recalled how, as a teenager, she got a chance to play a scrimmage match with Akers, whom she described as “one of my heroes.”
http://www.theindependent.com/opini...cle_fd01e118-6a9e-11e8-b101-5feeb8d1d4ed.html