Only after getting in did she discover that she had achieved something special.
"We've put a lot of hard work in but we've achieved something special," Adkins said.
"We've put a lot of hard work in, a lot of effort and we've achieved something special," he said.
The other bonus can be a boost to the confidence: "It's empowering, gives you a sense of your own potential and every day you feel as though you have achieved something special and want to do it again".
Forget the quality, the disparity in this league, what we've achieved there is done by a group of special people and a special management team which has achieved something quite remarkable".
With 4-0 you've achieved something very special".
Midfielder Michael Bradley, an ascending leader on the team, said the current group, as far as their spirit and camaraderie are concerned, had achieved something "pretty special, pretty unique" over the last six months.
"The new connection probably started a little before the World Cup final, but that was the definitive moment, you knew that we had achieved something pretty special, not so much with the result as with how we played our cricket.
"Looking back at the challenge and the money raised, I feel that we've achieved something quite special, because LATCH is a small charity, it works hard to raise its funds, it spends them carefully, it has very low costs, but it makes a huge difference to people at a very difficult time in their lives".
