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Bry Mandarino

Soccer Spotlight - Bry Mandarino

10/25/2017 11:02:00 AM

April 21 - Makenna Sullivan (she is a Leap-Year Baby)
April 28 Kacy Eckley (she used to be one of the top youth golfers in the country)
June 8 - Monica Rios (she was born in Puerto Rico)
June 17 - Haley Kemper (she is into four different types of boardsports)
June 23 - Emmi Carroll (she has broken 12 bones in her lifetime)
July 11 - Allison Werner (she attended private Catholic school for grades K-12)
August 1 - Anna Hall (she was a star forward in high school before becoming a goalkeeper)
September 1 - Jordan Foster (she has ziplined upside down in the jungles of Honduras)
September 22 - Sutton Edwards (she can solve a Rubik's Cube)
October 7Idalys Rea (she once caught a shark in the Gulf of Mexico)
October 13 - Bailly Bounds (her car was once followed by a swarm of bees)
April 7 - Sam Eastes (she once spent a week hiking in the Rocky Mountains)
May 4 - Larissa Heslop (she studied abroad in London)
August 4 - Erin Torrence (she was her high school's mascot)
August 30 - Kirsten LaPlante (she has lived seven different places)

October 11 - Lorah Pund (she won concert tickets on the radio)

RICHMOND, Ky. – We continue our series of profiles on members of the Eastern Kentucky soccer team. Next up: sophomore Bry Mandarino.

Mandarino, a goalkeeper from Aurora, Illinois, had three of her teeth knocked out during a game.

EKUSports – So how exactly did you get your teeth knocked out?

Bry – Well, there was about five minutes left in the game, and a player crossed in a ball. I was going backwards, and I dove backwards, tipped the ball, and dove face-first straight into the goalpost. It knocked my three front teeth out.

E – Do you have fake teeth in now or were they able to put them back in?

M – Yeah I have fakes in now. I had to have a root canal because of it.

E – I'm sure that's the worst thing to happen to you during a game.

M – I have broken my arm before, but that was probably the most traumatic, because I was missing my three front teeth and it was three days before we started school. I refused to go to school with three front teeth out.

E – I completely understand that. What was your first reaction when you realized what had happened?

M – At first I didn't realize it until I felt inside my mouth and I felt that my teeth were missing. I looked at one of my teammates and was like "Are my teeth gone?" and she was like "Yep, they are gone."

E – Were you trying to find them once you knew they had been knocked out?

M – No, we really didn't look for them. They just took me off the field because they were scared that I got a concussion. But literally the only thing that hit the post was my mouth.

E – Well I am glad that you are ok and that you were able to fix you missing teeth.
 
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