An overheard conversation led this CT high school soccer and basketball star down a different path to UConn

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An overheard conversation led this CT high school soccer and basketball star down a different path to UConn

OLD SAYBROOK – Kylie Lake was at an ecology club meeting last spring at Old Saybrook High School when she heard some girls talking about rowing. They were members of the co-op rowing team with Valley Regional. They had three girls but needed a fourth for their novice four boat. Lake, who plays basketball and soccer for the Rams, wasn’t playing travel basketball that spring, and was intrigued. “I was like, ‘All right, I’m not really doing a sport…