Something I've kind of learned while being at this level is you change as a person and you change as a player and you get faced with different challenges and you get faced with different obstacles as an athlete and as a person , and you kind of learn to settle in to who you are on and off the field . And I think for me , I learned more about taking care of myself , especially when you're younger and you're kind of going through it and you just train all the time and you're a kid and you throw yourself wherever you want , especially , I'm a goalie and you just throw yourself and it's so fun . But once you hit this level , it's like , ok , what's my body strain at ?
Where is your body like in its peak performance ? Like they help us be so in tune with our bodies that I'm learning like , ok , today I need this because I did this and I'm , I'm learning how to manage myself as an athlete and a person to feel my best and perform my best . And it's less about go , go , go do everything .
Like you need to stop . Like we're really good about holding each other to a standard of like , you need to get your sleep . We all have whoops and like we're tracking our sleep and we have like a team whoop where we compete and see who can get the best recovery and who can sleep the best that night .
And I think we put so much pressure on ourselves to obviously be perfect and be the best of our sport and knowing that what you do is enough and that what you do and you're 100% it will be a great match somewhere . And I think letting myself know that no matter what was thrown my way that I would be ok . I think that's , it takes a lot of pressure off of you to know that you'll be successful no matter where you end up .
And I think that my family aspect and my faith and everything outside of my sport gave me the permission to say like you're ok like you did well , and there's no such thing as perfect and you can only do as much as you can at that moment . And I just live by trusting my training and taking it day by day . But that was really hard and that took a lot , but still working on it .
