# @kaylacbarber on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CoItx5gy4tv
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/6263615-kaylacbarber-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-02-01T22:15:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kayla Barber (@kaylacbarber) — https://gondola.cc/kaylacbarber

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It’s awe-inspiring to see anything doing exactly what it is designed to do. I’m personally always amazed by it. Like how a bee is designed to move pollen from plant to plant on the hairs of their legs so that each time it lands, seeds for the next flower can be fertilized to grow. Or when a person is standing so obviously in her or his purpose that they’re just, well, really freakin’ great at what they're doing. Well that’s how I would describe my feeling covering morganstuart18 ’s ‘Groundwork’ clinic last month. I soak in the people I’m around just as much as I document them with photos and after 1/2 a day of listening to her instructing her group of girls, it hit me: an overwhelming “She is just born to do this.” 

As a former uwsoftball alum, 2009 National Champ, co-owner of a clinic that travelled state-by-state for years— taking the highest level of softball training directly to communities around the country, and now the founder of her very own Morgan Stuart clinics like ‘Groundwork’… you can say that she is giving back to the game that built her. Not only that, but through her innovation and entrepreneurial ventures, she’s significantly making a difference for the next ones in line, in her own true-to-story way… for girls just like her.

Morgan was a softball player, but now she coaches and develops youth players. To remind them that she once stood in their shoes, she shares with them what kind of player she was when she was 12-years-old: shy and quiet. She says she was the type to keep to herself and would just put her head down and work. It’s easy to see that work-ethic has never been something she’s struggled with, but you wouldn’t guess her quiet demeanor by the way she demands the field, now. That said, what choice does she have when she has 30+ 8-16 year old’s looking up at her for guidance? They’re looking for answers. Inspiration. Eager to know what she knows, learn the skills she obviously mastered, and get to live out their highest achievements and memories through the sport they love, too. She’s got purpose pulsing through her veins now. That alone will give you a presence and a voice you can’t shy away from.

(cont.👇🏼)

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kayla Barber | @kaylacbarber_ | https://gondola.cc/kaylacbarber_ | Photographer |
| Kayla Barber | @kaylacbarber_ | https://gondola.cc/kaylacbarber_ | Writer |
| Morgan Stuart | @MorganStuart18 | https://gondola.cc/MorganStuart18 | Coach |

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