Young Baby Soph, aka Sophia Smith of the Thorns/USWNT | Snacks with Lynn Williams & Sam Mewis

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

Just Women’s Sports

Sports, Soccer

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Portland Thorns/USWNT forward Sophia Smith joins Sam and Lynn to discuss her journey to becoming the first player born in the 2000s to play for the national team. Sophia talks about going pro at 21 after winning a national title at Stanford, how she developed such a strong work ethic at such a young age, her approach to mental health, and what comes next in her career. Plus: Lynn and Sam quiz Sophia about all things Gen Z. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Welcome back everybody. I'm Lynn Williams and I'm Sam Lewis and this is the Snacks
0:04.6	podcast. We're coming to you today with Heavy Hearts after last week's senseless
0:09.4	tragedy in Texas and the previous week's shooting in Buffalo.
0:13.4	Our hearts go out to all the victims and their families, but we know it's not enough to just
0:17.7	send our condolences.
0:19.1	We want to encourage our listeners to keep this issue top of mind. We have to hold our politicians
0:24.0	accountable and we can't accept that this is simply the norm. As painful as it is, we
0:29.8	can't allow ourselves to grow numb to the violence.
0:33.4	And while we like to keep this show fun and light-hearted,
0:35.9	we know there are issues that require us as Americans
0:38.5	to step up and demand change.
0:40.7	Once again, our hearts go out to all the victims and their families.
0:44.2	We are also sending our best wishes to all of you listeners during these difficult times.
0:48.6	We have to do better and we can't let this go on.
0:52.2	For those of you who would like to take action today, March for Our Lives is planning their second
0:56.4	nationwide March on June 11th.
0:59.0	To learn more about how you can participate and contribute, go to for our lives dot com additional resources can
1:05.0	be found at www dot every town dot org for gun safety reform and vote dot org for ways that you can get involved in your local elections.
1:15.0	So I know it feels really weird right now to talk about fun stuff and our
1:21.6	podcast it's supposed to be about silliness but we made a
1:26.0	pledge to talk about some serious stuff and I don't think that we can go on without
1:31.0	just addressing the violent acts and the shootings that have been going on in our country.
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