Angel City's Alyssa Thompson at the forefront of change in U.S. women's soccer
LOS ANGELES — Alyssa Thompson has English class on Wednesdays. Nothing unusual about that, a lot of high school students have English class on Wednesday.
What is unique is that she's the only one in her class who has been excused to play professional soccer.
"I still got my work done," said Thompson, a senior at Harvard Westlake. "I came back to school, my teacher was super proud that I went and just asked me a bunch of questions, which was cool."
Cool and perhaps soon to be common since the NWSL changed its rules last November,
