“She stayed very professionally neutral and gave me all the information I needed to make the decision myself,” Rapp said. With a decision needing to be made, Rapp turned to her former UM teammate for advice and was quickly reassured of what decision she was going to make. “Our coach contacted me one day saying she was looking at a player that she thinks I definitely know and I answered, ‘Oh really, who?’ … ‘Grace Rapp’ … ‘NO WAY.’ I’m pretty sure I laughed and said, ‘Well, you’ll definitely enjoy her sense of humor,’” Tullis-Joyce said. Over 2,200 miles away, Tullis-Joyce received the surprising good news from her coach. “So, it was by chance, but she must have put in a good word for me.” “When he told me, I asked if he was joking because I knew Phallon was there,” Rapp recalled. Her agent, Micheal Beatty informed her an opportunity had arisen, as a club previously in Ligue 2 was looking to add a holding midfielder since earning a promotion to the top French division. “Off the pitch, we had different friendship groups so it wasn’t until France that I really got to know her.”įollowing a magical ending to her first professional season, Rapp was ready to see if there was a possibility to join a club competing in one of the top French or English divisions. “Through college we were great teammates and I always admired the extra things she did for the team, whether that was organizing team activities, giving meaningful gifts to seniors or choreographing the team talent show,” Rapp continued. “We laugh about it so much now, how socially inept I was. “I seemed to always have had impeccable timing of walking into her room when she was upset, awkwardly slithering back into my room pretending not to have noticed because I was lacking comforting skills at the time,” Rapp said. Looking back on these ill-timed situations, Rapp couldn’t help but laugh at Tullis-Joyce’s remarks herself. We were always friends and had a laugh here and there, but with us having different majors, we didn’t spend much time together.” “One of the most infamous Grace pop-ins was after I had just gotten dumped Grace has always had great timing. Grace and I were suitemates so most of our conversations were held when one of us was bored and we’d pop into each other’s rooms for a casual conversation,” Tullis-Joyce said. “Oh boy, good times, our freshman year of college were. However, prior to all of their collegiate and professional achievements, the duo looked back to the start of the 2014 season and chuckled when recalling their first interactions with one another. SeatGeek: Buy or Sell Women’s Basketball Tickets.SeatGeek: Buy or Sell Men’s Basketball Tickets.
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