I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.

With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.

I wear my dad's cross. It's very important to me. I hang it in my locker before each game.

I travel a lot and rarely make it home to Seattle.

In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.