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—allowing her to share her The nights were spent in faith by, simply, loving peofellowship, reflecting on the ple who desperately needed day's blessings. it. That turned out to be kids, "You think going over on mostly. a mission trip, you're going The group went to a vilto make an impact but you're lage in Haiti that provided impacted and your life is a shell-shocking view of changed," Moses said. "You extreme poverty. Children realize the little things and were running around naked, then you can bring that back malnourished with bellies and share that with others, distended. make an impact on their One boy had a tennis ball, lives." ragged and dirty, resembling Moses' desire to serve on mission trips was first met The Legacy one that'd be found in a dog with a trip to Haiti as a freshman at Purdue. She added In six months, Courtney pen. Moses immediately No. 2 last May, joining a FCA group on a trip to Bethesda went over and started to play Orphan Outreach in South Africa where she met plenty of Moses will have played her new friends who loved to pose for pictures. final basketball game for catch with him. Purdue, hoping to end her "He had this huge smile career by guiding the Boilermakers to another NCAA on his face, just from the littlest thing," Moses said. Going, too, only instills a fierce desire to keep going. Tournament. She'll likely finish with her name etched So last May, Moses headed out with another FCA into the school's record books in a couple category, leavgroup led by Dittmar, this time to Bethesda Orphan Out- ing as one of the all-time greatest shooters, statistically reach in South Africa. It's a facility that houses orphans recorded in three-point makes and free-throw shooting affected by HIV and AIDS, an epidemic in the country, percentage. And that'll be nice, to be known that way. and places them in two-parent homes on the property But it's not what she wants people to remember. so each child grows up in a family. She talks of "legacy," unprompted, and basketball is The mornings were spent waiting for the sun to rise, sitting at a picnic table with Bible and journal in hand an afterthought. "I couldn't care less about the basketball part of it, reunderneath the lapa, a covered hut, wrapped in a fluffy blanket. Moses, one of only two people on the trip who ally," she said. "(I want) to leave a legacy as somebody awoke to see the sun every morning, used the quiet who loved people, made people around me better and time to pray, refocus and reflect on what she should be was intentional with relationships with others, whethpouring her energy into once she got back home. (The er it's my teammates, coaches, other people in athletmain answer: Relationships, especially rekindling with ics, staff, community, just fans, people in general." Few will argue that mission already has been met. the guy she'd broken up with and now realized was "the But that won't stop Moses from continuing the work, one.") By the time the sun rose, glorious in its colors hard-to-describe, the deep reds and oranges changing faith expressing itself through love, in search of glory not her own. seemingly each day, Moses was ready to move. "Of all my years of coaching, Courtney probably is the When days weren't spent laboring — wielding a pick ax to break up cement, hauling that debris to another por- most unselfish student-athlete I've ever coached," said tion of the property or stacking bricks — Moses was with Versyp, entering her 17th season as a college coach. "It the kids. About 60 of them live on the property, varying in wasn't like something happened traumatic to her and age. She'd join in on soccer matches, head over to houses she changed. "This is who Courtney is." j to cuddle with the little ones, find groups to teach dances and learn some of theirs. f IllustrateD volume 24, issue 2 75