• On Falling in Love with Goalkeeping

    An Excerpt From Kelcey Ervick’s Graphic Memoir, The Keeper

    In this excerpt from Kelcey Ervick’s upcoming graphic memoir The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives, she recounts her earliest days of training as a goalkeeper.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Excerpted from The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives by Kelcey Ervick, available via Avery.

    Kelcey Ervick
    Kelcey Ervick
    Kelcey Ervick was a goalkeeper for nationally ranked soccer teams as a girl. These days, she is an author, artist, mother, and professor of creative writing at Indiana University in South Bend.





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