Cristina Alexander

She made the team so successful.

She scored in big moments.

There's so many great things to say about her.

And just as a human, she is so humble.

She's the first one to want to help and give a hand.

I know the game is going to miss her so much.

I know the fans are going to miss her so much.

I was so lucky enough to see her every day, to play alongside her, to call her a teammate, but ultimately super proud to call her a friend.

She left the game better than where she found it.

And also to hear Mallory and Sophia talk about how they saw being a mom could be possible because of her.

And that was going on in real time for them.

And they saw the day-to-day, you know, operations of how, you know, she was in camp and then just with club, being able to bring Marcel along, and to be able to give them that, you know, motivation and confidence to do it, too.

So I think the world of her.

And she's been an incredible teammate, an incredible friend.

We live, like, four minutes away from each other.

So I'm so excited to continue to, you know, meet up, have brunch, go out to dinners, hang out with the kids.

And yeah, the game's brilliant because of her.

Yeah, truly hearing Sophia Wilson obviously talk about her becoming a mom, I mean, goosebumps.

And that's really impressive.

for Crystal Dunn to do that because, I mean, I don't know the experience that she had, obviously, before.