Abby Wambach & Julie Foudy: What Makes a Great Teammate (And Why It Matters)

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🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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From high school fields to World Cups and the Olympics, Abby Wambach and Julie Foudy talk about what makes a great teammate — the ones who push you, support you, and change how you play the game. They share stories about Mia Hamm, Michelle Akers, Carla Overbeck, Brandi Chastain, and Christine Lilly as they dig into the balance between competition and connection. Join the Party: Follow @welcometothepartyshow on: YouTube — @welcometothepartyshow Instagram — @welcometothepartyshow TikTok — @welcometothepartyshow Email — partypeoplequestions@gmail.com Go Deeper Dr. Colleen Hacker | Pacific Lutheran University — bio, career highlights, and her work with Olympic and World Cup teams. Books & Publications by Dr. Colleen Hacker — including Catch Them Being Good (with Tony DiCicco). Achieving Excellence: Mastering Mindset for Peak Performance in Sport and Life — Dr. Hackers latest book on mindset and performance. Wolfpack by Abby Wambach — Abby’s New York Times bestselling book on leadership and teamwork. Abby Header goal from Megan Rapinoe 2011 World Cup Quarterfinal - One of the best goals EVER. Thank you to our sponsors: *Ally’s got you covered. Ally Bank, Member FDIC *Start your career coaching today at https://www.strawberry.me/welcometotheparty *https://www.joinmidi.com/

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0:00.0	With like a quarter left in the game, she goes straight up to her own goalkeeper and gets an inch from her face and yells, give me the effing ball.
0:12.0	Attention. The party is about to commence.
0:24.1	Welcome to the party.
0:30.4	What's up, party people? I'm Julie Fowdy.
0:33.2	And I am Abby Wambach.
0:34.2	Abigail.
0:35.6	Hi, for many years.
0:36.4	Hi.
0:41.9	We have had this ongoing conversation about what we value in a teammate.
0:46.1	And I find it so fascinating, actually.
0:55.1	And the more and more I think about it and break down our different teammates and teams over the course of our career.
1:01.8	And now it's like it's incredible to discuss like what it is that we value.
1:09.2	So we're going to talk about the various traits and how it becomes a beautiful mix of awesome and why that's important.
1:10.3	Okay. So but before we get into this, Jules, I just want to
1:12.8	tell this brief story. Okay. And because I think that the way I want this conversation to kind
1:20.9	of flow is with this mentality of, uh, of understanding that that every person who comes into a team locker room or plays on a team,
1:33.3	they are bringing their whole self.
1:36.7	And their whole self isn't just the talent, right?
1:39.5	Because I think, of course, when we're talking about our women's national team,
1:47.9	we just understand that the talent has to be there. That's like a very basic thing that you need to in order to get into this system.
1:55.7	But then there's all these other parts of who we are as people and the way that we interact with people and the way
2:01.5	that we are on the team, the kind of teammate we are, what we, what our roles kind of are in
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