and then.
Posted on 03/09/2007 10:04:54 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
The waist-length pigtails are gone, replaced by a layer of dusty blonde hair so short it doesn't need a brush. Those '80s tennis skirts are history, too. In their place, a black nun's habit belted with a band of white rope that her dogs like to chew. One constant: Sister Andrea Jaeger isn't quite who everyone might think she is.
Even when she was a teenage tennis star — all backhands and braces — she knew she wouldn't last long in that world, though hers was not a typical tale of burnout or overbearing parents. She succumbed to an injury early. When it took her off the court for good, she felt a sense of relief, because it allowed her to pursue her real passion — helping children.
Through all that, she built a profound relationship with God, one that gave her direction at first, then the strength and motivation to navigate the good and bad times that came later.
A few months ago, at age 41, Jaeger became a Dominican nun — the next, but not final, step on a journey hardly anyone could have envisioned in the '80s while she was perfunctorily dispatching women twice her age on the tennis court en route to No. 2 in the world.
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Interesting story
and then.
It is difficult to buy the tale that she purposefully lost some matches against the likes of Navritovola, so that she wouldn't be ranked number one.
....lova
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