The sportswriter made his first trip back to South Korea since his adoption to cover the Korean women’s team at the Olympics. The author, himself an adopted Korean who grew up in New Jersey, provides intimate details and a sympathetic tone. Seth Berkman expertly weaves these details and histories of the players into a captivating tale that documents disparate player histories, backgrounds and races that culminated in the historic melding of players from North and South Korea into a unified team that captured global attention as dignitaries from the north and south attended the games. Her sister, Hannah Brandt, played for the U.S. The team’s captain, Marissa Brandt (Park Yoon-jung), who was born in South Korea, was adopted and grew up in Vadnais Heights and played at Gustavus Adolphus College. The coach, Sarah Murray, was born in Faribault, and played for the University of Minnesota Duluth. Minnesota has a long history of involvement with the Olympic Games, particularly the Winter Olympics, and it was on display in an unconventional fashion with the historic Korean women’s hockey team in the 2018 Games in Seoul. A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic Historyīy Seth Berkman.
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