123 - Lauren Barnes OL Reign & UCLA

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5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Barnes is the star defender of the NWSL’s OL Reign. In addition to being named an All-American while playing at UCLA, Lauren was invited to train with the USWNT, competing with both the U20 and U23 teams. She has played with the OL Reign since 2013 and played abroad in both Australia and Sweden on loan. We chat with Lauren about her passion in environmentalism and her creation of the MAD (make a difference) Kits, which includes everything needed to help an athlete to live a more sustainable life. We also discuss with Lauren what is going on the NWSL right now and what she believes can be done moving forward to making positive change and what we can do to help! Enter to win your own Mad Kit: https://bit.ly/2ZwPatZ https://www.madtravelkits.com/

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0:00.0	What's up, Wavy Dollars?
0:05.8	Welcome back, we're Sakura Props, and it's game time.
0:08.9	Hi!
0:09.9	Hi!
0:10.9	How are you?
0:11.9	Good.
0:12.9	How are you?
0:13.9	Good.
0:14.9	They're coming on.
0:15.9	Yeah, so how's everything going?
0:16.9	We know so much is happening with Olig right now.
0:17.9	Yeah.
0:18.9	What are you feeling about everything?
0:20.3	Yeah.
0:21.3	It's been really heavy for sure.
0:23.9	I mean, you know, the Sakura community is so small.
0:27.5	So I've played with Shanaid and Shem, a lot of the girls that have come out obviously
0:31.3	recently and played for Paul as well.
0:33.6	So I think at the moment, most of the girls, especially when it happened, we're just grieving.
0:39.9	Even with Laura as our coach, she was really angry, frustrated with everything that was
0:44.3	going on as well.
0:45.8	Our club's handled it really well in the sense that they just let us take our time individually.
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