We love the FC Gold Pride!

It’s incredible when your job becomes leveraging one of your friends for God’s kingdom and setting her up to succeed. 

I met Whit during my time on FCA staff at Auburn University.  Since leaving there, we have kept in touch and she has become one of my closest friends.  When she got drafted to play Professional Soccer and told me she wanted to use her platform as a pro athlete to speak for Jesus, I began trying to connect her with the FCA staff in California.  Little did any of us realize that that email would eventually lead to me joining the Bay Area FCA Staff.  Who knows where she will be next season, but for now, as the backup goalkeeper for the FC Gold Pride’s Women’s Pro team, I get to serve my friend as she is used for God’s Glory. 

In July, we finally got the opportunity to coach together! FCA partnered with a pastor in Tracy, CA to put on a youth sports camp.  Thursday featured soccer with Whit as the showcased clinician.  92 kids crowded the field as they learned about soccer and heard Whit tell her story of faith and sport.  Then on the 19th, She got the opportunity to speak again with a group that gathered from Young life and FCA after getting the 3rd start of her professional career!  Last Sunday marked the end of the FC Gold Pride’s Inaugural season.

Speaking at Power Camp

Power camp in Tracy

FCA loves the Gold Pride

Whit speaking after the game

My Brazilian Sisters :)

On the personal front, it has been so much fun to watch women’s pro soccer make a comeback in the US.  Through Whit, I’ve had the honor of meeting many of the players and office staff in the organization, and am so thankful for some of the friends I’ve made in that.  Some of my closest friends that I’ve made since I moved here are her roomates/teammates.    It’s been incredible to watch a young woman who understands how much she has been blessed and that “to whom much is given, much is required”.

If you want to hear more, FCA’s Sharing the Victory magazine featured her in last month’s issue.  She and Cat Reddick Whitehill are two Women’s Professional Soccer Players who are human, yes…but willing to put their lives out there and use their gifts to bring glory to God.