Courage, WUSA came, went
Since the last time she played a professional soccer game, Nel Hayes has coached at Northwestern University, clerked in an Atlanta law firm, gotten married, had a baby and become the executive director of the Atlanta Youth Soccer Association.
“Time just flies,” Hayes said earlier this fall. “It seems like yesterday I was playing. I’ll still talk to people and it seems like stuff just happened. It was a long time ago.”
Not as long as it seems.
It’s been a little more than four years since Hayes, whose name at the time was Nel Fettig, was a defender for the Carolina Courage of the Women’s United Soccer Association.