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Megan Young found her way to Seattle by becoming a strength and conditioning coach with the Sounders,

the city's formidable MLS team.

As a longtime strength coach for the Chicago Red Stars and the Auburn Tigers,

she is no stranger to athletic development.

But what particular challenges does the sport of soccer present for a performance coach

and how are the men's and women's games different?

Find out, listen now.

Here it is, episode 582.

Welcome to another episode of Power Athlete Radio. Thanks for tuning in. Mr. McQuokin, good to see you. I'm glad we took this show on the road. I can't believe it. I mean, we got out in terms of... Charles, you did it. Pat on the back. Well, it's so weird. he just has a bunch of iPhone set up. Don't give away our secrets. This is a giant production studio bunker that we whipped together. It's so weird. I can't believe you broke into this place. Don't. Can you imagine Chris, like going around, just yanking on doors? And all of a sudden he like, Jimmy's his room key in and is like, holy shit, it worked. Don't ask how I found this. And even when I was texting Megan, I was like, we didn't exactly ask permission. So don't go asking a worker where this room is. Well, the funny part is when she walked in when we were talking with Jim, at first I was like, oh, God, I hope this is somebody that works at this hotel,

like coming to Buddhist out. And then I was like, oh, wait, that's our guest. Thank God. Yes. Well, welcome Megan Young, performance coach with Seattle Sounders. That's new, right? Four months, yeah. Four months. Awesome. Awesome. Thanks for having me, guys. Awesome. Yeah. Cool. So, let's discuss that a little bit how did that come about and more importantly

in like like Thanks for having me, guys. Awesome. Yeah. Cool. So let's discuss that a little bit.

Yeah.

How did that come about?

More importantly, and like give us some details.

Yeah.

So four months with Seattle now in the MLS side, I've worked within what I call World's Football for about 15 years now.

Before that, I was working as a high-performance director for a women's team in Chicago.

Chicago's Red Star is the pro team there.

So it was opportunity meets making my family happy.

So it's like one of those things where now I get to be a part of what I consider a great organization and people within the world of sport in America especially consider a really

good organization. So you put me there and I put my fiance in her happy place in Seattle. So

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