https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Yes-my-head-is-spinning-8122658.php
Yes, my head is spinning
Published 7:00 pm EST, Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Phew. What a day for Wilton sports.
By mid-morning, the Warriors had a new varsity girls lacrosse coach.
By mid-afternoon, a legend who once called Wilton home stepped aside.
And, tonight, there is a hockey game at the Winter Garden Ice Arena (Have I mentioned how badly Wilton needs to have its own ice rink?).
My head is still spinning, partly because it's 5 p.m. and I haven't eaten anything since breakfast.
But I did want to take a few minutes to let you know how blown away I was after my interview with Caitlin Jackson, the new girls lacrosse coach for the Warriors.
Anybody who was worried that the program might fall into unsteady hands needn't worry. The passion that Jackson shows for the sport — from her days as a player at Northwestern, to the year she spent at UConn — will carry over and fit in perfectly with the program.
In fact, once the full story is put up on the Wilton Villager web site later today, you'll realize how much of a factor Wilton's passion for the game had in Jackson seeking out the position.
It's a great story and it'll be posted before I leave for the hockey game.
As for Kristine Lilly hanging up her cleats, it was time. She's 39 and a mom and a wife and it's like she always said, she would know when the time was right.
"I'm just at the point in my life with my family and career where it was the right time," said Lilly, who returned to national team duty last year after giving birth to daughter Sidney in 2008. "I never knew what the right time was going to feel like, but I finally got there."
There's an old saying that when one door closes another opens.
Maybe today was a day where one legend steps aside so another legend can begin her career.