Karina LeBlanc

And I'm like, oh my gosh, there's no way.

absolutely like and it for a while I was just like angry yeah and I was like how could this happen and even like I talked to you like early on like probably like a little bit after I had surgery and you were like Kaya like you're going to learn so much from this like you're going to be like a different person after this and even then I was like oh what the heck like I remember your eyes were I was like, yeah, Karina, but like, man, like I just want to play.

And like, I can look back at it now and be like, man, like you, like so correct.

So correct.

Oh, years, huh? Years.

Karina LeBlanc was the goalkeeper.

Karina LeBlanc ends up taking a flight with me back to Canada, says, hey, you know, you're pretty good at this.

What do you want to do? I said, I'd love to coach NCAA.

Oh, okay.

can't call it.

I was talking to Cherie Sam and the head of communications for Raj Sports, Karina LeBlanc, who was a former goalkeeper for Team Canada for soccer.

And we did a Portland Fire end of season show yesterday.

And before we started recording that, You know, Karina's rooting for the Valks, obviously, because that's a blueprint, really, for the fire.

[upbeat music] Now on the Epicenter Women's Sports Podcast with Karina Leblanc, a special episode featuring the voices, ideas, and moments that shaped the summit and the conversations that followed.

I think there's, like, no question that we've exceeded all expectations, and we need to, like, have the resilience to challenge ourselves to continue to do all the things.

We're successful.