Female Footballers

We are back this week with an all new episode highlighting another amazing new mentor here at FF. Meet Maddie Prohaska, Racing Louisville Goalkeeper and amazing human! Learn about her soccer journey and why the mental side matters to her! Enjoy!

This week on the Pod we are Hard Launching our newest mentor by introducing her on the podcast! Please welcome to the Female Footballers Network, Houston Dash Goal Keeper, Caroline DeLisle!! Learn about her soccer journey and more in this exciting episode! Enjoy!

This week we have on one of our newest mentors, Racing Louisville player, Quincy McMahon! Quincy chats about her soccer journey, including winning the 2022 NCAA Championship with UCLA, and her mental side of the game! Enjoy!

Beyond the Game is Back! Join us for this all new episode where Sierra and Maya update you on their pro journeys and they introduce us to a former Stanford teammate doing some amazing things post player career! So many great takeaways from this episode! Enjoy!

This week we are here to support players who've recently joined a new team! Whether you are a club player navigating a new team due to the age group change, a freshman or transfer in a college environment or anything else, we have three tips for you on how to find success in your new home! Enjoy!

Welcome back to the second half of Season 10! Today we give a brief up date of what's been going on behind the scenes at FF ! We chat what we did over summer, what's coming up next week and what's on the horizon! If you are interested in coming to our Night of Impact event, please RSVP HERE! If you can't make it and want to DONATE, we'd greatly appreciate it. We hope you enjoy!

This week we catch up on what we've been up to here at FF and we chat about our upcoming Summer Mentorship Program! Registration is still currently open and we are actively still adding new mentors. So go listen to this short episode and register now! Enjoy!

This week we chat about Club Hopping. We discuss how the recent age group shift has caused families to change clubs for a variety of reasons. We talk about how there are positive and negatives to club hopping. We want to hear from you. Thoughts?

***None of the situations discussed are actual players or from the teams mentioned. Instead we have blended situations together to protect individuals identity and none of these situations were from personal teams.

BTG with a back to back episode! Join us this week as we interview Denver Summit's Jasmine Aikey! Jas is a former Stanford University player and Mac Herman Trophy winner! She discusses her journey and talks about there recent ACL injury at the start of her pro career. Enjoy!

BTG is back with an all new episode! This week Sierra and Maya interview Maddie Pogarch, a former NWSL player for the Utah Royals, Portland Thorns and the San Diego Wave. She currently player overseas in Damallsvenskan for the club Hammarby. This episode is amazingly vulnerable and is jam packed with so many good takeaways! Enjoy!

We are back and here to discuss US Soccer's Age Group Change. We know that there are so many thoughts and feelings about this and we try to provide insights from three lens': The Club/Coach, The Parent and The Player. We hope you can take some nuggets that may help your perspective and we would love to hear your thoughts! Enjoy!

This week we are back after an extended Spring Break. We are thrilled to chat all about our recent trip to North Carolina where we provided sessions at the Girls Academy Aspire Showcase Tournament! We explain the importance of our partnership and all about these awesome events! Enjoy!

This week we are joined by Captains University founder, Anja Koehler! Anja discusses her journey playing club soccer growing up in San Diego and how she made her way to play D1 at UC Berkeley and University of Portland. We discuss her time as Captain of both teams and what it takes to be captain. Enjoy!

Beyond the Game is back with an all new episode featuring NWSL and CBS Sports/Color Analyst Darian Jenkins! Jenkins chats about her soccer journey from UCLA to her NWSL and professional career abroad. She also chats about her current job as an NWSL and CBS Sports/Color Analyst. This is a great episode and we hope you enjoy!

This week we are so excited to have on Keely Roy! Keely is a former Pro Soccer player, a collegiate player, having played at three amazing programs, and currently is stepping into the world of pro beach soccer! She is an up and coming sports broadcaster and we discuss her soccer journey from player to media broadcaster. Enjoy!

This week is short and sweet episode all about our Confidence Cup! Confidence Cup is our first annual all girls soccer tournament on May 2nd/3rd in Morgan Hill CA! We dive into our why behind this tournament and the plans for an elevated experience for our Female Footballers! For more info please check out our tournament page: https://cinchsports.com/portfolio/confidence-cup/

This week we are thrilled to have Sadie Brown back on the pod! Sadie is our Mentorship Program Coordinator, Female Footballers Mentor and former Goal Keeper for Claremont McKenna College. We chat about her last few years as a D3 goal keeper, the value of her experience at this level and her exciting next steps in her career and journey! Enjoy!

We are back this week with an all new episode of Beyond the Game and we are stoked to have on Stanford Standout and newest player for Gotham FC in the NWSL, Andrea Kitahata!! Dre is not only a Female Footballers Mentor, but she is a friend and former teammate of both Sierra and Maya! This is a great episode with such a great perspective around the concept of person first, player second. Enjoy!

This week Rachael and Kassie sit down to discuss tips and ways that coaches can support female players in specific ways. This is a great episode for coaches of all ages and levels of players. Some takeaways try in your training sessions! Enjoy!

Today we’re diving into a groundbreaking effort out of UC Berkeley focused on a serious issue in sports science: the lack of research and data on women athletes. Despite massive growth in women’s sports over the last few decades, scientists have a glaring blind spot — most of the foundational data used in sports medicine and performance analytics comes from studies on men. That’s what a new UC Berkeley initiative is aiming to change — and it affects athletes at every level. To help us unpack this, we’re joined by Dr Amy "whitey" Hockenbrock who is the associate medical director and associate team physician at UC Berkeley and Dr. Cindy Chang — chief medical officer for the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) and former head team physician at Cal.