The United States Deaf Women’s National Team (USDWNT) may well be the best team you were not aware of, having won every major tournament they have entered. Yet this is not a story about just silverware.
As captain Kate Ward led her team on to the pitch in Colorado at the start of June to make history as the first US Extended National Team to be televised nationally, the tears were not just about the game against Australia. They came because she had been on a journey that had transformed lives.
