LA JOLLA – “It was so pretty — the architecture and other things. We took the train from Czechia to Austria. All the green — it was super pretty,” remembers Adalee Branstetter, La Jolla High School’s goalkeeper, of her visit to her sister Aubrey’s college location for a year abroad.

In fact, Adalee — don’t call her “Addy” — enjoys the geography of a bunch of places, having traveled to Europe and with her travel team here regionally. “I like making connections: ‘These three look like a hamburger,’ so I can remember Hungary that way.”

Great minds think alike, so Viking head coach Amanda Combs Warford located the 5-foot-2-inch tall sparkplug at goalkeeper as she grew up in the Coastal Clash field hockey program. Going everywhere in the world, and going nowhere on the field — except to slide

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