Swanson: Angel City’s Savy King imagines ‘a nation of life-savers’
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Yeah, that’s Savy King over there, on her way back to work, eager eventually to clock in and play soccer in front of thousands of people again. Go ahead, talk to her. You can tell her. She won’t mind. Explain what it was like for you to watch while she lay on the pitch last May as paramedics and Angel City FC’s medical staffers swarmed around her. Tell her how much it messed with you to see an incredibly fit 20-year-old down for the count, unresponsive. How shocked you were, how scared: Savy King. Heart attack. On nobody’s BINGO card that night or any other, and yet … Oh, you’ve already shared this with her? Well, that tracks. A talented, tenacious defender with the cheeriest trademark...