Sam Gordon quarterbacking the growth of women’s football

Sam Gordon is tapping into the “limitless potential” of girls’s soccer.

Gordon, who turned a viral sensation as a young person when her father uploaded video clips of her soccer abilities to YouTube, is now serving to broaden alternatives for women and younger girls to play the game. 

The 19-year-old Columbia College student-athlete partnered with Beneath Armour to assist feminine athletes of all ages take part in soccer.

Gordon has partnered with Beneath Armour to host ladies soccer camps in California and Utah. She additionally helped launch Beneath Armour’s first-ever girls’s soccer cleat, which is about to hit cabinets on March 15.

“I’m so excited to be working with them. The primary that we did was the UA Subsequent ladies soccer camps. There’s going to be one in Utah in June, however we simply had the one in LA, and it was so wonderful to see all these ladies on the market,” Gordon instructed Fox Information Digital in a latest interview.  

“First, general, working with Beneath Armour, we’re working to deliver fairness within the sport, actually push for feminine involvement in soccer and giving ladies entry and alternative to play. An enormous a part of that’s these UA Subsequent ladies soccer camps, which I feel are unbelievable alternatives for women to get publicity to the game they often do not have the chance to take part in. And, not solely that, however really feel like they actually belong in it.

“And having the ability to put on the women soccer cleat that Beneath Armour has created is wonderful. Personally, I all the time wore soccer cleats. I performed soccer, and there is one thing particular about having the ability to put on the cleat you need to play in. To put on a girls’s soccer cleat actually says one thing about them actually pushing entry for women and dealing towards that.”

On the UA Subsequent soccer camp, Gordon labored alongside feminine NFL coaches Mickey Grace and Tammy Moore. Gordon described it as an “unbelievable” expertise.

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Sam Gordon partnered with Beneath Armour to provide ladies extra entry to the game.
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“I feel it’s unbelievable to have feminine presence and function fashions, particularly within the line of teaching, as a result of I feel there’s one thing particular about being coached by somebody you would possibly aspire to be,” Gordon stated. “Breaking down these boundaries are so troublesome whether or not you’re on the sector or off the sector. So, I feel the coaches simply present one other layer of, ‘We’re right here collectively, making progress collectively.’

“So It was unbelievable to see these ladies get coached by these NFL coaches and simply collectively making historical past and actually pushing the boundaries of soccer.”

Gordon was featured in a Tremendous Bowl industrial and given the NFL Recreation Changer Award for her efforts in forming the all-girls sort out soccer league.

Her efforts clearly haven’t stopped there. She instructed Fox Information Digital she may “positively” see a future during which girls’s sort out soccer turns into extra widespread and even a mainstream league.

“I feel ladies sort out soccer and ladies’s soccer have limitless potential,” Gordon stated. “It’s unbelievable. I imply, personally, once I went out and performed the championship soccer recreation for my ladies in our ladies sort out soccer league in Utah, it was unbelievable to see what number of followers got here out. And it appeared like now we have the stadium crammed. And I don’t see why folks wouldn’t have an interest simply because ladies are taking part in.

Sam Gordon was thrust into the nationwide highlight when she was youthful.
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“I feel the difficulty that we’ve had to this point is that there hasn’t been a pipeline (for) progress. However now with Beneath Armour, as we’re beginning to present these alternatives and actually break down these boundaries, I’m so excited to see the way forward for soccer.

“I would like girls’s soccer to be a factor in school. I would like them to have the identical scholarship and athletic facility alternatives the boys obtain. And I positively suppose it has the potential to turn into knowledgeable league with girls coaches and ladies commissioners. I feel it has the potential to be simply as wonderful because the boys’ aspect of soccer is.”