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The day after OL Reign fell to the Kansas City Current in the 2022 National Women’s Soccer League semifinals, October 24, 2022, Laura Harvey summoned her team to a meeting. The Reign had won the Shield for the third time in club history, but the big prize, the NWSL Championship, still eluded them. Harvey didn’t want to go into the offseason with another loss hanging over everyone’s head.
“The only thing I remember,” Tziarra King said, “is that I didn’t want to go. But Laura said it was very important.”
“Looking back on last year,” Quinn said, “there were moments where we looked beyond that semifinal. We were already looking at the final. We were not…expecting to win…but we let our minds go too far.”
“Just to be able to hash things out as a team is the best way to really pinpoint things, but also to move on, and it’s something we haven’t done before” Lauren Barnes, who has started all 10 Reign playoff games dating back to 2014, said.
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