She didn’t mind the church part, but she did mind that her coach wasn’t giving her any playing time. She was starting to think that she might as well drop out of college and start working her way toward her dream career as a real estate agent. That led her, last spring, to a conversation with a coach who was starting a softball team at a school on the Gulf Coast of Florida. The coach was a young woman, and Totten thought she sounded sane and real and caring. The school was small, but it was a public honors college for top students, which also appealed to her.

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Persons: Jayleigh Totten, wasn’t, Totten Organizations: New College, Southern Nazarene University Locations: Oklahoma City, Gulf Coast of Florida