When Oley and I first got married I had planned to take the spot offered me on the ISU women's soccer team. Since we were just newlywed I let Oley know that I would be using my maiden name while playing soccer, had I realized how big of a deal this was going to be I may not have even brought it up. It led to a looonng discussion of "but I have built the name Holly Egan as a soccer player I can't just go and change my name at the peak of my career?" "But you just married me and took my name so you will use my name." The conversation went a little something like that. Well as you all know, through a lot of personal prayer and searching it was decided a temple marriage was more important than a couple more years of college soccer. So the "discussion" ended there.
Well now that I live in the Seattle area and sponsors pay to have you wear their uniforms when playing in recreation leagues, I had to battle this same decision Egan vs. Burke. Since I am so far removed from my home town and no one really would know Holly Egan (except those few that I played the first two years of college ball with) I made the bold new choice and went with Burke.
Kind of sad, but boy does it make Oley proud! Can't wait for our little Burke's to be running around building a name for themselves!
Good choice!
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