Growing up as an athlete, most individuals have that one collegiate or professional player that they look up to and want to be like one day. Junior women’s soccer player Rebecca Rube (Louisville, KY) was no different as a young girl, and has learned the importance of having a strong role-model in her life. For this reason, Rube has volunteered her time by joining the University of the Cumberlands’ mentoring program and has been a part of a young teenager’s life for the past two years.

Rube has been a stand-out performer on the soccer field for the past three years, claiming First-Team Mid-South Conference honors in 2006 and Honorable Mention in 2007. Also during the 2007 season, Rube helped lead her fellow Patriots to an overall 16-5 record and both conference and region tournament post-season action. Currently, Rube is the third all-time leading goal scorer that Cumberlands has ever seen, tallying 38 goals during her three year career. During the 2007 season, Rube managed to find the back of the net 18 times in only 21 games.

 For the last couple of weeks, Trevecca students and staff have been desperately trying to reach two of their student-athletes, Lilian Mwange and Anne Opana, after they went home to Kenya for the holidays and got caught in the country’s turmoil.

Whatever energy they brought to the soccer field hardly matched their feelings about going home.

It was the first time the two Trevecca students would be going back to Kenya since starting college.

“They were so excited,” a teammate said.