The Goal That Started It All | Snacks with Lynn Williams & Sam Mewis

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

Just Women’s Sports

Sports, Soccer

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Lynn Williams and Sam Mewis catch us up on the history of their friendship, from an awkward first carpool to the fateful goal that led them to becoming roommates. The two then take us along as they unpack the last year, discussing changes in their careers, the importance of having honest conversations about race, and how they’ve grown as both players and individuals. Lastly, they dish advice on just how often you really need to wash your towels and sheets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? I'm Sam Lewis and I'm Lynn Williams and this is Snacks. We started
0:07.9	this podcast to talk about some personal stuff, some soccer stuff, some real stuff, and some fun stuff, all the stuffs. So Sam, take it away,
0:18.1	tell us about yourself, where are you? What's happening? I play soccer for the
0:21.7	U.S. women's national team and for Manchester City. Right now I'm in Manchester, but I grew up in Massachusetts. I'm from a little town called Hanson. I went all the way across the country to go to college, UCLA, and I've been playing professional soccer since then.
0:36.8	Some things about me, I have a dog named Finn,
0:39.2	who I'm obsessed with, he's a little Cavap who I love him.
0:42.3	I'm married to my husband husband Pat. I have a sister
0:45.0	Christie who also plays soccer in the N. W.S. salad for the U.S. Women's National
0:48.3	team. I love hanging with my friends. I love buffalo chicken. I love buffalo chicken I love buffalo chicken pizza I'm just your typical
0:57.6	person from Massachusetts who is playing professional soccer.
1:03.4	How about you, Lynn?
1:05.0	So I'm Lynn Williams.
1:06.2	I am from Fresno, California.
1:08.3	Grew up in Fresno, California,
1:11.3	went to college in California at Pepperdine University,
1:16.0	and then was drafted to Western New York in 2015.
1:21.8	I thought I would never live on the East Coast and yet here I am seven years later.
1:25.7	A little bit about myself, I am an aunt of four. I have three nephews and one niece. I love them to death. I have a boyfriend named Marley who lives in Australia, so we do distance a lot of the time. It's one of my favorite places in the world is Australia.
1:45.0	What else? I hate fish but I love shrimp, huge shrimp head.
1:50.0	What is a shrimp head?
1:56.7	Oh, you know, just a shrimp head.
1:59.1	You know, only the exclusive people know what it is.
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