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The Magnificent Seven were my version of the 99ers. I remember being 6 years old and watching Kerri Strug’s final vault from my living room after begging my mom to let me stay up way past my bed time. I remember going to the US Gymnastics Celebration Tour at Nassau Coliseum and wearing my Team USA leotard to gymnastics practice pretty much every day. I remember rewatching Dominique Moceanu’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” floor routine over and over again until the tape in the VHS was worn down. This was NINETEEN years ago today and I still get chills thinking about it. I feel so unbelievably lucky to have grown up during a time with so many amazing and inspiring female athletes. Words will never be able to express how I felt about this team and what they did for me growing up. There has been a narrative throughout this past month that conveys the message that seeing successful female athletes lets little girls know that they can be the future Kerri Strugs and Carli Lloyds of the world. But it is so much more than that. It is also about girls like me who were never athletic, but were really good at math and science and who never for one second thought that they were any less capable than the boys in their classes because they grew up seeing badass women doing badass things and never apologizing or diminishing their own success. And that is truly magnificent.

Thursday, October 1, 2015 Final I TBD I FS1

Megan Rapinoe and Ashlyn Harris arrive at the BODY at the ESPYs Pre-party 

Every member of the team with their own cover for Sports Illustrated

More to women’s soccer than just World Cup by Tiffany Weimer (via tpinoe)

Carli Lloyd speaks out on sportswriter Andy Benoit’s sexist tweet that said, “Not women’s soccer…women’s sports in general not worth watching.”

SI honors World Cup-winning U.S. women with a cover for each player

ALL OF THE GAMES ARE ON YOUTUBE AND YOU CAN WATCH THEM FOR FREE!!

I got a ticket to the reserved seating at City Hall  for tomorrows USWNT parade, but you have to show up by 10:30 (ceremony starts at 1) and it appears that you don’t actually get to watch any of the parade. I feel like I’d almost rather just be in the crowd and watch the parade, but maybe I’m being an idiot. Any thoughts?