because the U.S. girls's national crew tries for a heritage-making third consecutive World Cup , the team's focus will even be on a critically critical trigger, intellectual fitness . The trigger is a personal one for 2 of the crew's gamers, defender Naomi Girma and ahead Sophia Smith, whose former teammate at Stanford university, Katie Meyer, died through suicide closing year . Girma and Smith have dedicated this year's ladies's World Cup tournament to Meyer, a goalkeeper who helped Stanford win the national championship in 2019. In an essay published remaining week on The avid gamers Tribune, Girma described Meyer, who turned into 22 when she died, as each the "truest buddy I ever had," and "the ultimate person you would suppose would take her own existence." "Her loss of life bowled over the complete Stanford campus, and the entire soccer world," Girma wrote. "For me, and for the relaxation of her close chums, it left a void i...