As a star student and a promising athlete at her Mississippi high school, with college ambitions, it seemed that the sky was the limit for then-17-year-old Katie Stubblefield, her father said.
“She was driven for a purpose,” her father, Robb Stubblefield, told “Nightline.” “When she was a kid, she played soccer from the time she was, what, 4 years old? And she was not very nice at playing soccer … they used to call her ‘bulldozer.'”
In high school, Katie Stubblefield was a star student and a promising athlete with college ambitions.
Courtesy Stubblefield familyBut amid the stress of looking at colleges and looking ahead to graduation, the teen’s life took a detour.
Now, four years later, she has a different story to tell — one that describes the emotional struggles of adolescence, the permanence of split-second decisions and how two troubled souls came together to create a second chance. READ MORE BELOW
