Having to sit out "was really tough, especially since I don't think we reached our potential last year," Melissa said. "To know that I could help out there and not being able to do so--that was tough."
Now, however, she will be able to help her team as much as she wants. And for this, her coach and teammates could not be any happier.
"It would have been nice to have her for four [years]," Delaney-Smith said. "But we don't live in the past. It's nice to have her [now]."
Sister Act
"She was a white-hot recruit," Melissa said, answering for her modest sister.
Midway through the recruiting process, Sarah narrowed her list of school to four: Richmond, William and Mary, George Washington and Harvard.
She was impressed with the program that coach Delaney-Smith had in place at the time, and the fact that her sister was already here made the decision easier. In the end, the choice was clear.
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