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The SoccerGirl Podcast

140. Emily Fox - USWNT, UNC & Louisville FC

The SoccerGirl Podcast

SoccerGirl

Sports

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast we have USWNT, UNC & Louisville FC's Emily Fox. Emily gives great advice to look at injuries as a pit stop not an ending. She also tells about her struggle to want to be perfect on the pitch and how she had to change that mentality to become an even better player.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, ladyballers. Welcome back. We're soccer props and it's game time. Hi. Hi, Emily.

0:11.0

How are you guys? Good. How are you? Doing good. Are you in Louisville right now? Yeah. Yeah.

0:16.0

Cool. We haven't. Oh, no. We actually we've been to Lexington. So we haven't been to Louisville yet.

0:21.0

We had a lot fun when we were down there and we're hoping to get to a game sometime soon. How's everything going?

0:26.0

It's been good. I got back on Friday, Saturday. So we just had a game yesterday and today we're off. So just hang it out.

0:34.0

Love it. What do you do on your off days? I'm just curious. Well, this means kind of weird because we play we play again on Saturday.

0:42.0

So today I'm just like relaxing and not doing much at all. Yeah. But normally if we have, you know, a day or two off, well, you know,

0:55.0

go shopping, go do something, go get dinner, have more of like our team. Yeah.

1:03.0

Yeah. More of like a life like you're like, okay, we'll have soccer today. So. Yeah. Let's do non-soccer related things.

1:11.0

Yeah. No, I feel like we're all like we're all pretty tired from yesterday and we're preparing for Saturday. So yeah.

1:19.0

I'm just hanging out today. You find a big difference between professional and college knocker?

1:27.0

Oh my gosh, yes. I really didn't think there would be for some reason. I don't know why. But yeah, the level and the games are so there's so much harder.

1:43.0

But it makes them more exciting. Like when we play a team, you don't really know who's going to win.

1:51.0

And with training and stuff, it's just a lot more difficult on your body and stuff. So yeah. That's a really big difference.

1:59.0

Do you recover differently now? Yes, I do. I feel like with college, like you have school, we have social, like you just have everything in one place.

2:11.0

You don't have a lot of time. So I felt like I was always like going from one thing to another. And with games too, we play like Thursday, Sunday, or like Friday, Sunday sometimes.

2:23.0

So I don't really think I did that much recovery of them being honest. But now, I mean, we have a great training facility and amenities and stuff like that.

2:35.0

So I definitely like take my off days as off days and make sure I'm doing everything to be fresh. So yeah.

2:44.0

And we know, we know that in college, you tore two ACLs. Do you think post ACLs that you same thing that you had to do things differently in order to stay injury free?

2:56.0

Yeah. I mean, I think with big injuries like that, you do so much PT and just the process of coming back is like very like step by step.

3:13.0

So yeah, I'm a lot more mindful of like my body and how I feel and like making sure I'm not doing too much.

3:19.0

I think that was one of the biggest things I learned from it. Kind of like a theme in college, like you're just kind of go go going.

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