The letter arrived at Kingsley's athletic office on a Tuesday morning, forwarded to Coach Orlova with an urgency that had her tracking Ivy down between classes, expression tighter than Ivy had seen since the scandal first broke.
"The Federation's received a formal eligibility challenge," Coach Orlova said, once they were alone in her office, door closed against the hallway noise. "Against your qualification for Nationals."
Ivy's stomach dropped straight through the floor. "What kind of challenge?"
"Vague, deliberately so. Something about 'irregularities in the regional qualifying process' and a request for review before certifying the final roster." Coach Orlova's jaw had tightened. "It doesn't name Nikolai Volkov anywhere in the filing. But given the timing, given everything else that'
