You have to control what you can control, not the entire game, and try to play the best soccer possible and play clean and be smart and professional.

Always double-knot your sneakers. One of my teammates once lost a shoe during a game!

Some of the players are known as scorers or assists. I guess what I am known as being is an ironwoman.

I eat a huge breakfast every morning - it's what I look forward to. I'll do steel-cut oatmeal with blueberries and strawberries, an egg white scramble with mushrooms, zucchini, and onion, and a piece of cinnamon Ezekiel bread with almond butter. I could do that every single day.

You have to control what you can control, not the entire game, and try to play the best soccer possible and play clean and be smart and professional.

Hair is really where we can be creative. I have my "game hair," which is always different than how I'd wear it at practice.

Women's soccer is not heavily publicized, so when you have an opportunity to be in a big magazine that publicity can be good. It definitely helpes as far as awareness about women's soccer.