Georgia Southern University Athletics

Lindsey Grossman Blom started every game during her four years at Georgia Southern and was a two-time first-team All-Southern Conference selection. Co-captain of the Eagles in 1997 and 1998, she earned first-team Academic All-America honors in 1998 and was named the 1999 Georgia Southern Female Scholar Athlete of the Year. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in psychology. Following a two-year professional career with the Jacksonville Jade of the W-League, the highest level of women's soccer, Blom went on to earn two master's degrees and doctorate degree in education from West Virginia in 2005. She served as the head coach of three club state championship teams in West Virginia and two club state championship teams in Mississippi and wrote a soccer coaching book, "Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Soccer."