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High Performance Leader | Women’s Sport Specialist | Women’s bodies as inherently inferior is a lie 🦄 | she|her|hers

Chicago, IL
Joined January 2016
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In sports, I believe that the highest standard we can set and hold for ourselves and others, is the ability to put humanity above all else. 1/3
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Replying to @ElliottSale
Lets stop talking about training women as women. What does this mean and what is it based on? No one is talking about training men as men. TRAIN AS ATHLETES. If you do this, ovarian hormone profiles will automatically be included, same as every other aspect of your physiology is.
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Can someone help me understand two things: 1) why are we petitioning to the CEO and not our governing body to step in here? And 2) why isn’t DPT a protected acronym?
Urge Life Time Fitness to Cease Use of DPT Trademark - Sign the Petition! chng.it/TTN6C5qh via @Change
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This entire thread
Concern over @PhoenixMercury head coach choice is many-layered, including about implicit bias in hiring. A Black woman who played in @WNBA was elevated to Mercury interim head coach to clean up the messes of the previous year and half and worked to rebuild players' confidence ...
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It’s white male privilege and men’s sports privilege. Female staff in women’s leagues are pervasively undervalued, underpaid and treated like garbage. This highlights what we, who love the women’s game more than anything, have seen and experienced in every facet of staffing
Yeah I can’t get over it. From not being an active HC or having any experience within the WNBA to being the highest paid coach in WNBA History is white male privilege at work.
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The bois showin out 🤟👩🏻‍🎤
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2 things stand out to me here: the increase in ACL reconstruction incidence in both boys and girls during the timeframes and the higher rate of ACLR incidence among boys 👀 .
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Replying to @JaneGPhoto
@JaneGPhoto is this photo yours? This looks like Pinoe is wearing a pride cape! 🦸‍♂️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Match Recap: OL Reign Falls 2-0 to Portland ➡️ bit.ly/Recap-OLRvPOR
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I asked my sister for tips on setting boundaries, she said “be ok disappointing people.” - really good advice
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Our captain. 🫶🏻
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What else I see here is the unfortunate lack of NAMES for these women. The effort that was put into this screams performative.
To mark International Women’s Day, West Ham's men's first team have paid tribute to the inspirational women in their lives by wearing training tops with their respective names on the back. 15 players paid tributes to their mothers. Michail Antonio chose Serena Williams. #whufc
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Absolutely 💀
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Nothing matters more than more years with your best friend. That’s what inspired us to make our latest commercial. You might have caught it if you’re tuned into a certain game this evening 👀🏈 Here's the whole story of "Ava and Bear."
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"We can't find enough." "There aren't enough ATs out there." "We're desperate to find somebody." But we want to pay minimum wage salaries to these healthcare providers. How desperate are you if you're using the same salary scale you used 15 years ago? #AT4ALL
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Why I don’t currently believe in weighing athletes a thread 🧵
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Weighing an athlete opens a can of worms if you don’t ask yourself WHY should this player be weighed? If the answer is: to see if they’ve gained weight. Then why the F does that matter? If the answer is to see if they’ve lost weight. Same thing applies. Why does that matter?
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The hardest thing to do after being an athlete your whole life is EXERCISING!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Whenever I have to explain to someone over and over again that I work for a PROFESSIONAL WOMENS SOCCER TEAM, and they ask me over and over again what it is, I die inside. I get so mad. Like, we need people who get it and if you don’t get it, I don’t have time for you.
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