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🗓️ 14 January 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Last season, Ashley won the NWSL Championship with the Washington Spirit and also was awarded the Golden Boot Award. Ashley gives great advice on how she deals with the ebbs and flows of confidence that can occur as an athlete and why she believes comparison is something athletes shouldn’t do and focus on how you talk to yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, ladyballers. Welcome back. We're Sakura Props and it's Game Time. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, how are you? Hey! |
| 0:11.0 | And how are you guys? Sorry, I'm outside because it's so nice. |
| 0:14.0 | So we're just going to dive right in. I mean, congrats on what a season. |
| 0:19.0 | Amazing. And then we sell champions and you won the Golden Buddha Word. That's like incredible. |
| 0:25.0 | Can you just tell us like what the season meant to you and meant to the team? |
| 0:29.0 | Oh my gosh. This season meant so much. I mean, to be able to, I don't know, overcome like as much adversity as we did and kind of have the ending that we did. |
| 0:40.0 | Like, I don't know. It's really hard to kind of put into words like I often like reflect about it and on the whole season. |
| 0:47.0 | And I just like can't help but smile because of everything that we went to, but we all like did it together. |
| 0:52.0 | And I'm just so happy and so proud of every single person on our team because every single person really did contribute. |
| 0:59.0 | And I don't know. It was like a storybook ending really. But yeah, I was just, I don't know, super excited. |
| 1:06.0 | We set the bar high for next year too. So excited for next year. |
| 1:11.0 | For sure. And do you think there was anything that about your team that set you guys apart from the other teams? |
| 1:18.0 | I think, I mean, I can't speak about other teams, but what I do know about our team is we just, we had a lot of resiliency. |
| 1:26.0 | We had a lot thrown at us this year. |
| 1:29.0 | And every time something was thrown at us, we kind of just like dodged it and like, okay, the only thing that we can control is what we do on the field and the product that we put out on the field. |
| 1:40.0 | And I think it just motivated us a little bit more. And we came together as a team. |
| 1:45.0 | And everyone, I don't know if like I said everyone in their own individual way stepped up and then as a collective, we were able to move forward. |
| 1:53.0 | So yeah, we just were able to come together through all the adversity. I think that's what helped us the most. |
| 2:01.0 | It sounds like you guys had such a great group. And I'm just like we're when we saw you guys when we were just so pumped and it must have been such an amazing feeling. |
| 2:10.0 | And you've had such success as a forward throughout the season. And we just want to know like what do you think about your personal game, like sets you apart from other forwards in the league? |
| 2:22.0 | That's a good question. I mean, this is as you know, like such a hard league to be successful because there's so many great strikers, so many great attackers. |
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