April 7th

Thursday, April 7th:

Today was an exciting day for my project!  I secured an interview with former professional soccer player Blakely Mattern. Before playing professional soccer, she played collegiate soccer at University of South Carolina. Not only that, but she was the captain her senior year, so she knows a lot about leadership. I think she is going to have some extremely interesting things to say about why women deserve more opportunity and equal pay in soccer. I am planning on interviewing her next week, and I am very excited to get in touch.

I'm also excited because my uncle, who lives in Chile, gave me the contact information of a few people in Chile who have connections in the soccer world. I emailed all of them and I am looking forward to hearing their responses.

Since I wrote the majority of my interview questions over the passed couple of days, after this morning I didn't have much to do for my project. Before moving to the next stage, the interviewing, I have to wait for responses to my emails. I hope that people get in touch as soon as possible, because I would love to begin the actual interviews. So, since I was waiting, I did some very interesting research on the wage discrimination lawsuit that filed by certain members of the US women's national team. The statistics were mind blowing to me. I don't understand how anyone can think it is fair that the men get a $5000 bonus for a loss in a friendly game, and the women receive a bonus of $1,350, but ONLY if they win. These alarming statistics and more are why I'm so passionate about changing the current situation. As the US Women's National Team says: Equal Pay, Equal Play.