Printz eager for long-awaited debut

SOC: Valparaiso midfielder has faced difficult road over last two years

Lily Printz can still remember crawling off the field.

It was Jan. 10, 2023 and Printz, then a high school junior, was playing in an ECNL tournament in Lakewood Ranch, Florida. She went in for a tackle, the same kind she had made hundreds of times before.

Only this time it was different.