“I bet if you see a female athlete succeed, you’re going to cheer with her.”
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She would be the last to say she reached these heights in her sport all on her own.
(Okay, discipline has also played a role.)
“I bet if you see a female athlete succeed, you’re going to cheer with her.
And that’s what it’s all about.”
Flores has been as devoted to championinggender parityin flag football as training for her own games.
Still, flag football isn’t a professional sportmeaning athletes are not paid for playing.
“Everything we’re working for has a bigger purpose,” Flores told Miller.
“It is not for us.
It’s for the girls that are coming behind us.”
Now, she gets to be the example she didn’t have on an international scale growing up.
(And, she pays it forward by hosting training camps for young girls.)
It’s for the girls that are coming behind us."
Building a more equitable arena really is a team sport.
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Princesses, mermaids, and true love’s kiss, oh my!
But would I do it again?
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