Overcoming setbacks is nothing new for Canadian women’s team forward Deanne Rose.
Rose, a native of Alliston, Ont., made the decision in 2014 to quit the sport after being cut from Canada’s Under-15 team, which at the time was overseen by current senior team coach Bev Priestman. A promising career appeared to have ended before it even started.
But her life took an unexpected turn when she was invited to train with Canada’s Under-17 side in 2015. Things went so well that by the end of the year she earned her first cap for Canada’s senior side as a 16-year-old. She’s been
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