Sasha's senior season arrived with a specific, electric anticipation that reminded Reese, powerfully, of her own final year at Northbridge — the accumulated weight of years of proving herself finally translating into genuine, unquestioned respect, college scouts filling the stands at every game, a career trajectory that had, in the four years since her tryout, exceeded even Marsh's early confidence in her potential.
Reese attended as many games as her Director of Player Development schedule allowed, watching Sasha develop into exactly the kind of complete, two-way defenseman Reese herself had once aspired to become — not a smaller, developing echo of Reese's own game, but something distinctly Sasha's own, a specific offensive creativity that Reese had never quite possessed, paired with de
