We met with a Former D1 Soccer player named Carly Wetzel. She went to University Of North Carolina and was a midfielder on the soccer team. She talked to us about a foundation she is in called Voice in Sport Foundation, they work on strengthening title 9 for young girls. We learned about experience with her and how they hand me down uniforms that are way too big for them. We learned about how lots of girls quit the sport they love because they were abused by their coach. Carly stressed to us how important it is that the sport you play gives you confidence and does not knock you down. She also played oversees and explaing that playing oversees also impacter her mentel health are her teamates as well, she also noticed that she was treadted much better overseas and in urope then in the U.S. This interview was very informative and helpful.

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Our first interview was everything we expected and more. We met with a soccer player at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a senior. We learned about her struggles, experiences, and success. We learned about how the male soccer team has a much nicer locker room with more than one couch, TVs, and a ping pong table and it is much bigger than the girls’ locker room as the girl’s locker room is half the size of the boy’s room. They have about the same amount of players on both the male and female soccer teams. The girl’s locker room also has a mice problem. The male and female teams get funding from the same place but the men’s team gets more of the money. All of the female sports teams right now are coached by women but not one male team has a head female coach. More effort goes into the male team, especially with the publicity. For example, the Penn newspaper is much harsher on the female team. Although the media coverage is pretty much the same, the way it is advertised and talked about is very different. One of the hardest things for her to face at school is having the confidence to speak up against injustice and be listened to. One thing she would change is making sure that there is a culture that makes female athletes more comfortable.

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Today We went to the UN, We went to almost all of the meeting offices and we saw many different artifacts. For example, we saw artifacts that were rescued from somewhere that had been bombed like A statue of a woman. One Of my Favorite things to see was the meeting rooms or the bricks that were made out of 100% plastic. I didn’t really learn anything about my topic while I was visiting the UN.

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