Minna Svard
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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And I also feel like it's really important that we actually make sure that this don't happen again so that upcoming females don't have to deal with this issue and they shouldn't have to go through this. Because when you're entering in the NCAA, when you're entering and competing there, you expect the NCAA to be there and protect you and support you because that's what they're supposed to do.
What would NCAA be without their athletes? So why wouldn't they want to make sure that we are safe and that we are protected and that we get what we deserve?
It's everything that I fought for since I was four years old. I started track and field when I was four years old. I knew that I wanted to go somewhere with this. I knew that I wanted to become the best that I could. And that moment in 2019, I had worked for that moment for years. And it got taken away from me.
And even though, yeah, you can get a trophy back, you can get the recognition now, but like the moment will be lost forever. So NCAA has done things to women that will never be able to be completely fixed. But that's why I feel like it's really important that people understand how severe this has been for women in sports.
It's so many emotions at once. It's... you bottle up all like the sweat, all the hard work, all the tears, all the happy times in practice, like all of it, it just comes out at the same time. And you feel, when I crossed the finish line in 2022, when I won the national championship, I was so proud of myself. I didn't need, I don't think I can put words on how I felt,
It was just everything that I had been wanting and worked for for so long.
I honestly don't know. I don't trust the NCAA no more. All of that went out the window when I had to step on the track and compete against the man. So my trust for them is very low. But you can always hope, and that's what we're fighting for. We want it. We want that to happen. That's right. But if it doesn't, that's a different thing.
It makes me really annoyed because everything that I hear is him expressing his emotions. But for all this time, we have been asked, we women have been asked to be quiet and keep our emotions quiet just to please someone else or another group of people. So that makes me really frustrated.
Well, when it happened, since it was the first time it ever happened in the NCAA history, everybody was kind of quiet about it. They didn't know how to react. My coaches were supporting me. At school. But other than that, we were just keeping quiet.
I don't know if I'm able to. I don't know if I can. But if I could, that would be something that I might want to do.
Thank you so much for having me.
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