By Scott Powers, ESPNChicago.comChicago Red Stars defender Kate Markgraf will never forget the moment she was told 14 weeks into her pregnancy she would be having twins.
"I cried," said Markgraf while laughing.
As a mother, she was overjoyed. As a soccer player, she was terrified.
Markgraf had decided long before the doctor's late-breaking news of twins that she was going to play at least one more professional soccer season. The thought of twins made her pause, but it wasn't enough to deter her.
On Saturday, Markgraf officially completed her comeback. In the same week as her girl-and-boy twins, Carson and Xavier, turned 11 months old, Markgraf made her first U.S. women's national team appearance since December 2008 when she came off the bench in the 63rd minute Saturday and helped the U.S. hold on for a 4-0 win over Germany before 10,000 fans in Cleveland.
"I wasn't expecting it at all," Markgraf said of being called up for the game. "I was very surprised and honored at the same time."
Read the rest of Scott Powers' story on ESPNChicago.com.
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