Valorie Kondos Field
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140 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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And it did.
It was the first time that Kyla had shared with anyone that she had been sexually abused by Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics team doctor who was later convicted of being a serial child molester.
Kyla came forward and joined the army
of Nassar survivors who shared their stories and used their voices to invoke positive change for our world.
I felt it was extremely important at that time to provide a safe space for Kyla and our team, and so I chose to talk about this in a few team meetings.
Later that year, we won the national championship.
And after we did, Kylie came up to me and shared with me the fact that she felt one reason that we'd won was because we had addressed the elephant in the room, the tragedy that had not only rocked the world, but that had liberated the truths and the memories in herself and in so many of her friends and her peers.
As Kyla said, Miss Val, I literally felt myself walk taller as the season went on.
And when I walked onto that championship floor, I felt invincible.
Simply ... Simply because she had been heard.
As parents, as coaches, as leaders, we can no longer lead from a place where winning is our only metric of success, where our ego sits center stage, because it has been proven that that process produces broken human beings.
And I emphatically know that it is absolutely possible to produce and train champions in life in every single walk of life without compromising the human spirit.
It starts with defining success for yourself and those under your care.
and then consistently self-examining whether your actions are in alignment with your goals.
We are all coaches in some capacity.
We all have a collective responsibility to develop champions in life for our world.
That is what real success looks like.
And in the world of athletics,
That is what we call a win-win.
Thank you.
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