“A lot of people do take for granted that as women, we already go through a lot: we go through pain, aches, impostor syndrome, eating disorders, and more. Being a female athlete is a whole different image that we get to show the world, but we never know what’s going to come out of it.
The biggest thing is yes, the recognition, but also understanding that when we get recognized or we accomplish something so big, we never know the negativity that’s going to come out of it. We hope for positivity, but as women, there’s a lot of things that people are always going to critique because they want us to be perfect 24/7.
So I think just understanding that we are human and we are always going through something. You think it’s easy to wear a crown every day? No, I wake up every morning wondering what my day is going to be like. I wake up trying to figure out how my life is going to continue to go. We never know, but I think just understanding that we are human, but we also have talents that are connected to it. We have gifts, we have creative minds, we have different things that people don’t truly get to see. And if we do get recognized by that, then it’s going to be a whole different level. It’s going to be a whole different atmosphere and expectation that people are going to be able to understand.”
