Laura Gouvin hit the ground running at Boston College. (Matthew Scott Hawley)
When Boston College head coach Jason Lowe took over before the 2019 season, he inherited several recruits from the previous regime.
You can slot now-freshman midfielder Laura Gouvin (Monson, Mass.) into that mix, though his depth of knowledge wasn't quite there.
From conversations with Mick D’Arcy, FSA FC’s director of coaching (Girls ECNL) and head coach at Central Connecticut State, Lowe got a better sense of who would soon join the ACC program. Then when preseason arrived, initial perceptions really changed.