Ashley Hatch: Moving Forward After Disappointment
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🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
It was considered one of the biggest snubs of the Women’s World Cup in 2023. Ashley Hatch has been around the United States Women’s National Team since 2016, and even played in multiple games for the national team in 2023. And yet, when the roster for the Women’s World Cup team was released, Ashley’s name wasn’t on it. The tough thing is that, like many disappointments in life, Ashley doesn’t really have an answer for why it didn’t work out the way she’d hoped. She does, however, recognize that she has the power to choose how she responds to that disappointment.
“It’s an opportunity to either lean into your faith, lean into your testimony, or it’s an opportunity to lean away or push it away.” —Ashley Hatch
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| 0:00.0 | Over the years I've heard people mention that they attended high school at Brigham Young High School, |
| 0:06.0 | but even after B.Y. High closed its doors in 1968, teachers kept creating courses for distance education students. |
| 0:16.3 | In January 2020, BYU launched a new full-time high school, BYU Online High School. |
| 0:23.0 | Now, students can once again earn a high school diploma through BYU. |
| 0:28.0 | BYU online high school offers three different diploma programs, full-time semester-based enrollment, the Flex program, and the adult education diploma program. |
| 0:40.0 | Teenage students in grades 9 through 12 enjoy fun online activities, clubs, free tutoring, live online classes, and much more. |
| 0:50.0 | Learn more, sign up for an info session, and register at high school. |
| 0:55.2 | BYU.ed.e.dU. In late June 2023, the United States Women's National Team finalized their World Cup roster with at least one glaring omission. |
| 1:08.0 | Ashley Hatch, a forward who had been a frequent part of the team's camps leading up to the World Cup. |
| 1:14.0 | Sports riders tried to make sense of the decision. |
| 1:17.0 | Some even called it a headscratcher, but ultimately we may never know what would have been had Ashley Hatch been given her shot at the World Cup. |
| 1:26.4 | What we do know is that she is teaching us all a master class in handling disappointment. Ashley Hatch is a forward for the Washington Spirit in the National Women's Soccer League. |
| 1:38.0 | Following her collegiate career at BYU, she was drafted second overall by the North Carolina Courage in 2017. |
| 1:46.6 | After being traded to the Washington Spirit in 2018, she helped her new team to the National |
| 1:52.0 | Women's Soccer League Championship. |
| 1:54.4 | She and her husband Jeff Van Buren were married in 2019. This is all in an L. D. S. living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be all in the gospel of Jesus Christ? I'm Morgan Pearson and I am so honored |
| 2:16.0 | to have Ashley Hatch on the line with me today. Ashley, welcome. Thank you. Thanks so much |
| 2:21.3 | for having me. Well I want to start off with kind of the elephant in the room, which is that a lot of people |
| 2:29.5 | listening probably feel the same way I do, and that is we're all mad that you were not |
| 2:35.7 | named to the World Cup team. You said that you were never given a reason why but |
| 2:41.5 | you responded in my opinion in about the classiest way possible by |
| 2:46.7 | expressing your gratitude for soccer and its fans and the chance that you've had to play, |
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