True Warrior | Fayetteville Christian goalie battles way to DI roster

Nothing worth having comes easily on the road less traveled where tough times don't last but tough people do and pressure makes diamonds. By the time she was a teenager, she'd spent nearly half of her life as a gymnast. Lodeserto climbed all the way to Level 6 in the 10-tier USA Gymnastics Development Program. She dedicated 16 hours each week to the gym for training. It was during one of those sessions, with state competition looming, that Lodeserto overrotated on a dismount from the beam and fractured her tibial plateau.