Finding Solace Soccer Helps Coaches Cope with Deaths

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Bennett Grant can't escape soccer. Nor can Dave Birge.

It's soccer that brought the two together as coaches for Cheyenne Central's girls soccer team.

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Finding Solace Soccer Helps Coaches Cope with Deaths

They also passed soccer on to their children. Between them, five children of theirs played in the red and black of Central, four under their direct tutelage.

Soccer also has been their salvation in recent times of sorrow.

"These kids have been the best therapy I've ever had," Grant said. "I wouldn't trade a minute of this season for anything."

You see, the Central soccer family presses on to state today minus two key ingredients: Grant's wife, Connie, who died o...

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