Vanessa DiBernardo: Rising star
August 18, 2011 12:03 AM
Vanessa DiBernardo blends in.
She sits on a patio chair overlooking the Main Quad on the Illinois campus. Trade out that "Illinois Soccer" T-shirt, and the 19-year-old would be another undergrad soaking in a spectacularly sunny weekday afternoon.
Her chameleon ways, you learn quickly, are both a gift and a fault. Of the roughly 500 student-athletes on the Illinois campus, very few have the necessary talent to impact their sport on a national -- even an international -- level. DiBernardo, a sophomore midfielder on the women's soccer team, can make the biggest impact of all of them.
Klee
She sits on a patio chair overlooking the Main Quad on the Illinois campus. Trade out that "Illinois Soccer" T-shirt, and the 19-year-old would be another undergrad soaking in a spectacularly sunny weekday afternoon.
Her chameleon ways, you learn quickly, are both a gift and a fault. Of the roughly 500 student-athletes on the Illinois campus, very few have the necessary talent to impact their sport on a national -- even an international -- level. DiBernardo, a sophomore midfielder on the women's soccer team, can make the biggest impact of all of them.
Klee
Filed under: Illini Soccer
