Bringing an NWSL team to Cleveland would mean everything…As a female athlete and sports fan, I didn’t get the opportunity to dream as big as my male counterparts, and I never got the opportunity to connect to a professional women’s sports team in Cleveland the same way as a men’s team.

Seeing someone who looked like me on the podium was huge and helped me to feel seen and that I could do anything I set my mind to. Later as an adult in 2010, I watched Korean ice skater, Yuna Kim, win the gold medal while…

I can't remember a time in my life when I haven't thought about how I or others around me would be able to make a difference in the world just by being "everyday people."

At 7 years old, I took my first steps on what would become a long, sometimes lonely, road. Since then, soccer has taken me everywhere.

I am the girl who never believed in herself. I am the girl who never believed she was enough. I am the girl who constantly questioned her place in this world…

You don’t have to be a serious runner to join a running group. I remember overhearing a conversation shortly after I graduated college where a woman was talking about a workout she did with her running group.

While talking about vitamins might not sound the most interesting, I must tell this story about magnesium, because it’s fascinating both scientifically, as well as for me personally.

Throughout the history of professional sports, athletes have utilized their platform to advocate for social change. Whether it’s Billie Jean King and Venus Williams working to close the gender pay gap in tennis,