Not long ago, Brittany Croce of Stafford played soccer in front of several college coaches. It was the fall of her senior season at North Stafford High, where she was the Northwest Region’s player of the year.

STAFFORD — Stafford’s Max King was about 11 years old when she first met Diane Drake, a veteran soccer coach.
Drake was conducting a camp at Goucher College in Maryland. And later King attended camps run by Drake at Georgetown University and George Mason University.