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Ashley Lunkenheimer

Ashley Lunkenheimer

Politician

Jul 15, 2026

10:44
Mm-hmm.
10:44
Now we have a slightly different pitch because back then Starla got engaged.
10:49
She's a researcher for a international consulting firm by day, and so she was doing a lot of research, and it was harder to dig out data.
10:56
Now the data started to get really out there that shows the pitch today is, in part, and this is a Deloitte study, 90 plus women in C-suites of companies identify as former athletes.
11:08
Over 50% of them played through college.
11:11
So if we can take our girls and we can get them to stay in sports longer such that they build that identity as an athlete or former athlete eventually, and I mean, if they stay through college, even better.

7 MINS LATER

18:04
We know.
18:05
And that is not a place where women's professional sports needs to be involved in that, that whole th- anything about it.

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