Laughter Permitted: Naomi Girma

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Soccer, Sports

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

NWSL Rookie of the Year and Defender of the Year Naomi Girma joins Laughter Permitted to share her reaction to high praise from Megan Rapinoe, what she has learned from veterans on the USWNT and how she was introduced to the game of soccer by her dad and the Ethiopian community in the Bay Area, where she grew up. Plus Naomi and Julie swap stories about their moms and Naomi discusses her Stanford degree in Symbolic Systems. Stayed tuned for a HUGE announcement in the close of the show about plans for Laughter Permitted's 100th episode. Spoiler alert: 99ers might be involved...and you can ask them anything! Listen in to find out how. Send us an email at: laughterpermitted@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The laughter permitted podcast is brought to you by Ally.
0:02.8	Do it right.
0:04.0	Hello!
0:05.1	Welcome to laughter permitted. I'm Julie Fowdy.
0:07.6	I'm Lenozawe.
0:08.9	Last week, we launched Season 9 by talking with NASA astronaut Nicole Mann while she was literally in space.
0:20.1	And we're happy to report she's back safely on planet Earth.
0:23.4	Woop!
0:24.7	And then the question became, well, how in the heck do we follow that up?
0:30.8	Well, we decided to go with a woman whose career is, wait for it, blasting off.
0:39.5	Our guest is USO International Team in San Diego Wave Player Naomi Gurma.
0:47.0	Well played, Land, well played.
0:49.6	Naomi is a graduate of the fine institution of Stanford University.
0:53.7	Where she won a national title in 2019 and then went on to earn her first cap with the US
1:00.5	Women's National Team last April.
1:03.1	She was the number one draft pick in the 2022 NWSL draft and is the first player to earn
1:11.0	both rookie of the year and defender of the year honors in the same year.
1:17.5	Again, her first year.
1:19.3	Yes.
1:20.3	You'll hear how Naomi had a unique introduction to the game of soccer thanks to her dad who
1:25.0	started a league with members of the Ethiopian community in the Bay Area where they lived.
1:30.3	Naomi is indeed a star on the rise.
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