She was thinking about her dad. He had always said, from the very beginning, that winning and losing did not matter in sports at all. In so many ways, he had told his teams, the outcome is out of your hands. Sometimes the other team is just too good and you’re going to lose. Sometimes you get unlucky bounces; small, tiny reversals that change the entire trajectory of a single game or even a season. And so you could be happy when you won and sad when you lost, but that ultimately would not matter. All that mattered was that within the confines of that game, on the court, you did everything that
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