A passion for soccer — a sport she has played since she was 5 as the lone girl on a boys’ team — and a love for the city of Nashville seemed like a perfect fit for Elizabethtown High School senior Kennedy Carter.
Carter has committed to Division I Belmont University in Music City and will sign with the Missouri Valley Conference school. The earliest she can sign her national letter-of-intent is in November.
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