Coach Jackie

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BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley · Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports · 19 May 2025 podcast

Not really. I mean, I do get a lot of invites, but it's always very last minute. And I can't really plan much. You know, like I just kind of last minute get an email and I'm like, okay, I guess I'm going. And like I said, I like have a job. And so I have to be like, can I get time off? And they're like, of course, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. That was like two years ago.

That's the best part of the sports, like truly. It's the history. It's constantly witnessing the changes in the history and all of it. And I'm late to the game, you know?

I always say, I just watched recently somebody at a women's sports event asking people like, you know, why should you watch women's sports? And I'm done with that question. I think it is, we paint ourselves like a charity case when we convince people that we're worthwhile.

And I think that this new era, and you know, I always struggle with the language because I think that, I think back to the 99ers as like, that was the moment that the spark lit for me as a kid.

Yeah. But like, that's when I was little, I always knew that was the thing that started it, you know? And, um, so it's always been a thing, but of course it's spiraling now and it's becoming so much bigger. We have to stop proving ourselves. We just have, the product is so good. You turn on an NWSL game, you turn on a WMB game, you turn on a women's world class, whatever. it's awesome.

It's so much fun. And that's what I'm always saying. I'm like, don't ask me why just, I just, cause you like it, you know? And, and, um, so I think that normal for me, isn't the win. I think that cause normal, what does normal mean in sports? It means men's sports. Yeah. It means being on par with what the men are doing. And that is never a goal.

You know, I don't think that's when women's sports wins. And that's a huge misconception that women's sports is just constantly running and trying to get to where men's sports and trying to do the same things men's sports has done. I don't know if you've tuned into any men's sports lately. They're not the best.

Like the standards aren't great, you know, for what they stand for with their players and the community around the sports can be kind of toxic. Why are we striving for that? We don't need to be like that. And so... Just trying to be not normal, but like the best woman sports we can be. Because normalcy, we're past that, I think. Like it's a different product and the product is better.

I would love to.

Oh, yeah. It's awesome. I think that's so exciting. And it's just like the talent is there. And so it's just going to be competitive. I think that's what's exciting about it. And it won't just be like, you know, the way that women's soccer is right now. It used to be that there were like three or four teams. You're like, all right, probably one of those. I think that's expanded.

And so that makes sense to expand the whole pool with it.

Can I ask a question that maybe is a sidebar, but like when it comes to the purse strings for a world cup as players, you only have your country's federation that you kind of can have some say in with FIFA itself. How do you fight for it? Like, is it just, you know, do you have anybody that goes from your federation to FIFA or like, how does that work?

yeah that's so important it's it's it's that follow-through that's so important though too which is i know the hardest part but i think a lot of people find that really interesting because it's a really complicated thing and people think like oh you just play better or you just uh when they protest or whatever what is that doing but like there are these actual unions set up that are supposed to work you know so yeah it's important i do have a fan question and i was wondering if maybe you could help me answer this question yeah are you down okay

Interesting. Interesting.

God, I was a film major. I was in the school of theater. So very much not sports oriented. But I will say as a sneaky backdoor sports thing, if you do want to be a media person, the film school, we were tight with a lot of the athletes because you go and you film. A lot of my friends, I didn't do it because I wasn't a camera operator like that.

But my friends who were travel with the team and make their content and got close with a lot of the athletes. And So that's kind of interesting. There's like a nice intersection between the arts and sports and a lot of bigger schools. I went to LSU, so like a big Southern kind of school like that has a lot of teams that need a lot of coverage.

If you're not into that, I know there's kind of like... There's, I don't know what it's called, but you can go and you can learn how to like be organized, like management, like sports management is a major. Yeah, sports management. We got there. Sounds familiar. We got there, sports management.

But also if you're, you know, want to go to school and you want to, you don't want to play soccer as like an athlete, athlete. I was on a club rowing team in college and that's how I made all my friends. Whoa. I would have done club soccer, but it was COVID. And so the soccer team wasn't going, but the rowing team was. We rode with masks. It was very interesting.

That's really hard. In the Louisiana swamp, not really on a river either. Like, yeah, it's crazy. But join a club soccer team, you know, and that's club sports in college. And if you don't want to do club, you can always do intramural. But generally, just join any sport in college that's low stakes. It's such, such, such a good way to make friends. It's the best.

And a quick Stanford name drop too will always be helpful. Just do whatever you love and then you'll have fun. And college is just about learning how to learn.

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