LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Not every coaching clinic happens on a field. Bev Yanez ran one this week in hospital hallways, on countless phone calls and in quiet hotel huddles. She was the right coach for the wrong kind of moment.

Two days after Racing Louisville’s match was halted when Savannah DeMelo suffered an on-field medical emergency, the teams came back to an empty Lumen Field and finished the second half before rows of empty seats.

In that setting, the score (Seattle won, 1–0) mattered far less than the scene. And Yanez and her staff met this one with courage and compassion.

Even looking back at what Yanez called “a blur” — that instant when DeMelo sat down, then fell backward, and medics rushed in — it was visibly difficult for her to speak.

“I know for me personally, it hit som

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