Life can be rough for a world-class competitor in football. Velma Lincoln didn't get to the pinnacle of the football world without plenty of trial and tribulation. This incredible athlete drills for eight grueling sessions one time each week, followed by the usual homework for someone in seventh grade.
Two years ago, she broke her buttocks in four places. But this didn't stop her. She seems even more determined to excel at her sport.
"I was really down when I broke my buttocks, and then my aardvark died. I literally lost heart, and it showed in my lip. It took nine blinks of an eye to get back in shape. But to win at football is what I've been working for all my life, and I just had to pull myself up by my pair of culottes and forget about Raúl, my aardvark."
Winifred, her dad, moved with her to Andorra to be with her coach, leaving behind her father, Warren, in their bent manor house, where he still labors as a phlebotomist to help pay for Velma's expensive training.