Rafters Collective.
Stories from women's sports.
A junior at Dean College in Franklin, MA, Blair plays defense for Dean’s field hockey team.
Behind every athlete is a collection of people who have invested their time, energy, money, and love to show their support to the women who continue to push their respective sports forward.
The scoreboard tells us who won. The box score tells us who scored. As a sports photographer with hundreds of games under his belt, I’ve learned the moments that matter most have nothing to do with the stats. Here’s the moments I’ve loved photographing from the sidelines.
It’s easy to forget just how recently girls were given the opportunity to play organized sports. When Title IX was passed, fewer than 300,000 girls participated in high school sports; today, that number is over 3 million.
It’s been 18 years or so, and suddenly, on a random Tuesday in October, at 8:30 pm, my life was forever changed. How do you live with something you don’t remember living without?
Freshman Mallory Hartl picks up her first college shutout