I guess that my surgeon accidentally sewed the suture into my nerve.

Accidentally?

Yeah.

New fear unlocked.

I didn't even know that that could happen.

I didn't, I didn't either.

We may laugh and learn we might be your game, it's missing peace.

What's up, guys? Today we talked to North Carolina Courage defender, Macy Bell.

Macy had an amazing college career at UNC where she won three ACC championships and was named

ACC freshman of the year. She was drafted by Gotham F.C. in 2024, spent half the season there,

and then was traded to that North Carolina courage, where she quickly became a key part of their back line. We chat with Macy about making the jump from college of the pros, navigating recovery from a tough knee injury, and even a potential future career in fashion. Her game day fits are fire, so she's already off their strong start. Enjoy. Well, thanks so much for coming on me. See, we

were really excited to get to know you more. No, I'm super excited. When you guys reached out, I was like kind of fan-girling because I love your good spring. That's awesome. Love it. Well, you had such an amazing college career at UNC. I'd love to know what's the biggest adjustment moving to the pro level now. You know, you're playing against the best of the best at this point. And I think coming into Gotham for me, I really got to experience that with like seven, eight national team girls on my team and just really getting to learn from them. So I would just say the level of play, the speed of play, the speed of the player is just everything, honestly.

It's so crazy because so many pros say speed of the play. I'm like, I don't know how much

faster you guys can get. Like, you know, the big school like that. I'm like, it's amazing

that even you guys say that. Like, it's wild. What's something that you were, like, surprised or didn't expect going pro?

I would say just how long the actual season is. Coming from college, you do like a three-month, four-month season, and you're like, wow, this is so long.

And then I came to the pros, and I was like, no, this is actually so long.

It's just like, I knew it was a job, but it's really like a full-time job all the time and it's 10 months out of the year.

So I would say that was the most surprising.

Yeah.

I was going to say, when did that realization come where you realized that soccer was not just going to practice?

It was like all the things you have to do outside of the actual training. you realized that soccer was not just going to practice.

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