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Pro soccer team drafts Schmidt

YDN Staff Reporter
Published Friday, January 12, 2001

When Matt Schmidt '01 was growing up in Milwaukee, he would play for his 10- to 12-year-old soccer team in short contests during the halftime of Milwaukee Wave soccer games. He would get nervous before the games, but the next day at school he would make sure to tell all his friends about how he played in front of thousands of fans at a Wave game. When the games would end, Schmidt would be there waiting to get autographs of the local soccer stars he looked up to.

"When you are that age, you don't think that it will ever be you," Schmidt said.

Next season, that will be Matt...

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