That Takes Balls

Soccer balls, that is. True story.

The cast: a Smith grad turned girls' soccer coach in Georgia: Luma Mufleh.

The drama: Our heroine realizes there is a ragtag group of refugee kids who want to play ball, too. She puts some fliers out (she too, is an immigrant from Jordan) and soon has a kind of UN-version of the Bad News Bears on her hands. At first she coaches only boys, since the kids were Muslims from places like Iraq and Afghanistan, and many parents wouldn't let their daughters play, but this changes.

End Game: The New York Times makes it a front-page story, then Hollywood comes calling. I don't know how she has time to coach any more, since this local girl has made good. Check out the story.