I can’t believe it. We did it, we really did it.

A little less than 2 years ago, I joined Ben Hubbard, Tom Dunmore, and Jordan Angeli at ForDenverFC, an effort to bring women’s professional soccer to Colorado. And today, that dream is realized! 

My story began with the nudging of a friend Jaclyn Hester, who suggested I watch the Angel City documentary. In that video, there’s a scene where Abby Wambach is interviewed about receiving the ESPY Icon Award, next to Kobe Bryant and Peyton Manning. She laments that instead of feeling pride in what her accomplishments have brought her, she felt rage at not entering into retirement with a similar financial situation as Kobe and Peyton. While she didn’t begrudge them their success, she couldn’t understand why she didn’t have similar opportunities as those two, in spite of similar career accomplishments. And honestly, I got angry. Angry for Abby, angry for female athletes, and just angry for women in general. Any woman who sees that video should be angry. So I started digging. 

At that time, there was not one women’s professional anything in Colorado, despite Denver boasting 6 men’s professional teams. How can that be in such an athletic, pro sports state? If I was going to start a women’s professional sport team here, it just had to be soccer. While other sports could make sense, soccer has a much more global presence, and the US Women’s National Team has been ranked #1 for most of the last 10 years. So our ladies win on the global scale, where men’s soccer is ‘meh’ globally. Even more impressive, Colorado is well represented in the starting lineup for the USWNT, which means we’re producing the best talent globally right here in CO, but they can’t play here because we don’t have a team? Insane! So let’s start a women’s soccer team! 

I got connected to Ben Hubbard, Tom Dunmore, & Jordan Angeli who had been working towards this goal for a little under a year and we started ForDenverFC – a grassroots effort to pull together Colorado’s first women’s pro soccer team. We recruited a contingent of almost 150 ForDenverFC Ambassadors who organized community events around Colorado to help spread the word. Together, we made huge strides on the marketing and community front, the facilities front, and the financing front. Together we identified Rob Cohen as an ideal anchor owner for this effort, and were delighted (if not surprised!) by how quickly and eagerly he said yes. Rob stepped in and brought the dedication, heft, resources, and influence to get the effort over the line. We couldn’t have done this without Rob!

So Colorado – I am so excited to share with you that ForDenverFC has realized it’s dream. Presenting – Denver NWSL! 

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