As a star student and a promising athlete at her Mississippi high school, with college ambitions, it seemed that the sky was the limit for then-17-year-old Katie Stubblefield, her father said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was driven for a purpose,\u201d her father, Robb Stubblefield, told \u201cNightline.\u201d \u201cWhen she was a kid, she played soccer from the time she was, what, 4 years old? And she was not very nice at playing soccer \u2026 they used to call her \u2018bulldozer.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
In high school, Katie Stubblefield was a star student and a promising athlete with college ambitions.
\nCourtesy Stubblefield familyBut amid the stress of looking at colleges and looking ahead to graduation, the teen\u2019s life took a detour.<\/p>\n
Now, four years later, she has a different story to tell \u2014 one that describes the emotional struggles of adolescence, the permanence of split-second decisions and how two troubled souls came together to create a second chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As a star student and a promising athlete at her Mississippi high school, with college ambitions, it seemed that the sky was the limit for then-17-year-old Katie Stubblefield, her father said. \u201cShe was driven for a purpose,\u201d her father, Robb Stubblefield, told \u201cNightline.\u201d \u201cWhen she was a kid, she played soccer from the time she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorial"],"yoast_head":"\n