Earning It: Foster's Lechler Working For Greatness

WHENEVER SHE’S HOME TAKING HACKS TO GET HER TIMING RIGHT OR PEPPERING VOLLEYBALLS TO TIGHTEN BALL CONTROL, FOSTER JUNIOR BAILEY LECHLER WORKS AROUND A QUOTE ENGRAVED INTO THE CONCRETE ON THE FARTHEST END OF HER DRIVEWAY – “OWED NOTHING, EARNED EVERYTHING.”

“It just reminds me that nobody owes me anything,” said Lechler, a two-sport standout for the Falcons as a defensive specialist on the volleyball team and an infielder for the softball team. “If I want to be great, I have to go and get it myself.”

When concrete was being put down on the pavement five years ago, Lechler wrote in the quote as a permanent reminder.

“I had come out of a tough softball season and realized that I needed to be working harder than what I was working then if I wanted to do anything with it,” she said. “It paid off.”