Bouncing Back
Written by KYLE JORREY Photos by RICHARD GILLARD Like a puppeteer with a marionette, Tasha-Nicole Terani brings a soccer ball to life. Up, down, left, right, foot to heel, head to shoulder, the checkered sphere stays in constant motion, never touching the ground, never leaving its orbit around Terani’s slender 5-foot-10-inch frame. To watch her is to risk being hypnotized. For most of her life, Terani, like that soccer ball, lived in a state of flux, refusing to stop moving f