Being able to play a sport overseas is exciting to anyone. Now imagine being a rising high school senior that’s going to represent your home country in the country of your family’s ancestry, a place you’ve never visited.

As a middle-schooler, Carolyn Kuhn never envisioned that softball would be a gateway to college athletics. In fact, softball was just one of many sports she played until her early teenage years when three of the sport’s most prominent...

When Maddie Cohen determined that she would attend Boston University following her senior year at Glenbrook South, she didn’t know if dancing would be in her future.

As far back as she could remember, dancing had been...