Sarah started this company because she is passionate about women supporting women, leadership, and the many benefits of sports – and here at Girl Boss Sports she was able to combine all three! She has been a soccer coach for 16 years now and has consistently found a lack of female coaches no matter the geographic region where she has coached. Research shows that this is not just an issue in the sport of soccer, but across most others as well! This is an area Girl Boss Sports makes a difference in through recruiting passionate female coaches and athletes and providing training and ongoing development for all Girl Boss Sports coaching staff.

Sarah has also found that every time she coach a girl’s team, she is able to connect on a deeper level with the athletes as she understands the unique experience it is to be a female athlete growing into a young woman. It is this knowledge and experience that she is excited to share with other female coaches and athletes through the reach of Girl Boss Sports. Sarah is also a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) which has given her knowledge around learning theories, child development, and mental health that have increased her skills in the coaching realm as well.

Currently, Sarah also plays for the Oregon Ravens Professional Tackle Football Team. As a current professional athlete herself (and former semi-professional soccer player), Sarah is able to relate to the athletes she works with on a different level.

All of this combined with her 26 years of experience playing the beautiful sport of soccer have led her to where she is today – making an impact on the world by changing the life of one girl at a time.

Mandi’s love for the beautiful game began in 1998 in France while she was playing street soccer with local youth. Her main athletic focus for 18 years was the sport of Figure Skating, but along-side that she continued to play and develop skills in soccer. Ten years ago she was sidelined from figure skating due to injury, and found a new home in the sport of soccer, where she has been able to apply the same passion, focus and love for learning and improving technique and skill constantly.

Mandi is an NASM certified personal trainer and Performance Enhancement Specialist, and plays indoor soccer multiple days a week primarily at the positions of midfielder and goalkeeper. She has been a gameday volunteer with the Seattle Reign/Reign FC since 2016, serving on the stretcher crew, retail, and game day field and stadium set up positions.

She loves coaching for the opportunity it gives her to share everything that she learned, not just from soccer but also from figure skating and personal training. Sports are about preparation, dedication, and fun. Even when learning skills that are daunting or that may not be your favorite, it’s important to find ways to keep your mind and body engaged and connected to the joy of sport.

Sylvie has had successful career as a business consultant and a marketing executive for more than 10 years across many industries. She wants to spend her life with purpose and have an impact on the world and decided to bring her strong business background to Girl Boss Sports to help women’s sports to thrive, empower the future generation of women, and set up positive female role models for girls but also for boys.

Sylvie created Stronger Together a Marketing and Branding agency to help develop women’s sports by giving solid tools and more exposure to female athletes and teams and to help companies such as Girl Boss Sports to change the status quo.

Sylvie started playing soccer as a kid in the south of France. She was the only girl among boys, but despite that she was the most physical player on the team. She was made team captain during all her career due to her tremendous leadership ability. She remembers her dad telling her to choose another sport as there was no future for girls in soccer, but she decided to follow her passion nevertheless. Since then, she has faced even more adversity as a woman playing football, a sport that is also typically seen as one solely for men.

In 2012, Sylvie fell in love with American football, has played 10 seasons internationally and currently is a quarterback and safety for the legendary DC Divas. Sylvie is fuelled by all the positive impacts sports can have on people and society. She was a Head coach and Offensive Coordinator for high school football in Paris and was amazed by how the future generations of men are inspired and look up to female coaches. The future is bright!

As Girl Boss Sports aims to position itself as a company that is disrupting the sports industry and fighting for more inclusivity and equity for female athletes, we have brought Taylor Herman onboard as our Director of Business Development and Operations.

Taylor brings a strong business and operations acumen, as well as a background of being a life-long athlete herself. She started playing sports at age 3, and has been a multi-sport athlete for most of her life, but focused on basketball through elementary and middle school. She also started training in Taekwondo (Korean martial art) when she was 12, and by the age of 16 was a black belt competing at the Junior Olympics (where she would become a double gold medalist), so elite sports training is no stranger to Taylor. She also played collegiate soccer in South Korea at Yonsei University, and continued playing semi-professionally when she moved to Seattle in 2016. She now plays professional women’s tackle football for the Oregon Ravens in the WNFC.

Being in the sports world for almost 25 years, Taylor has realized the gaping divide between male and female athletes and their coaches and trainings, and jumped at the opportunity to combine that background with her business knowledge to help forward the fight of Girl Boss Sports. She hopes that she can support Girl Boss Sports to give girls of this generation the opportunity to compete on an equal playing field that she could only dream of when she was young.

Lisa serves as general legal counsel for Girl Boss Sports, LLC on a volunteer basis. Lisa has a small diverse practice in Shoreline, Washington, that includes legal support for entrepreneurs, athletes, and small businesses in the sports industry. She is a volunteer soccer coach for two youth soccer teams and a volunteer coach for Girl Boss Sports, LLC.

December 2004 the Colorado State Rams took on Tennessee-Martin, led by 5’ 3” point guard Vanessa Espinoza. It may have just been another game for Vanessa Espinoza, but for one 14-year-old, it was the first time she had ever seen a female compete in a sport. That 14-year old girl got to watch an athlete that looked just like her dominate in a sport she loved, and her life was forever changed.
That 14-year-old girl went on to continue to play basketball through her high school career, lettered in softball, played flag football in college, and is currently the quarterback and captain of the Oregon Ravens Women’s Tackle Football team. She also never forgot the impact that the strong, female role models had made in her life, so she became a coach as well; for the first time as a junior in high school and continues to this day. It wasn’t until she started coaching girls that she realized the impact she could have on the future. She saw herself in the girls she was coaching and wanted to give them the best shot at success.
Katrina Guerra joined the Girl Boss Sports team because her passion for sports and empowering the future generation of female athletes is directly in line with the mission of the company. She has finally found a place where she could do something she loves with an amazing group of women that have the same passion. She cannot wait to see how she can be the positive change for girls and women around the world.

Girl Boss Sports will always strive to provide an environment where all girls and women feel welcome and encouraged to give their best while in or outside the arena! With that in mind we are proud to announce that Erica Meacham has signed on to our team and will be serving as our Manager of Equity and Inclusion! Erica comes to Girl Boss Sports by way of Sarah’s vast network of female tackle football players. She currently plays quarterback for Eugene Oregon’s Oregon Hawks. Erica’s love of sports and her passion to make sure that ALL women get the equal opportunity whether it’s coaching or playing, is what fuels her fire to tackle this position!

As an OUT and PROUD transgender athlete, Erica also serves as an Athlete Ally Pro Player Ambassador for Athlete Ally, an organization that is on a mission to end the rampant homophobia and transphobia in sport and to activate the athletic community to exercise their leadership to champion LGBTQIA+ equality. Having done numerous question and answer discussions with classes at universities in Oregon as well as serving as a guest panelist for the recent Pacific Northwest Coaches Summit that was held in the Tiger Woods Center at Nike’s campus in Beaverton Oregon, Erica has proven through her leadership and tireless activism that she is the right GIRL BOSS to lead our company in our quest to be the best experience for our athletes and coaches when it comes to equal opportunities and inclusivity.

Casey Nelson is an Oregon State University graduate where she majored in Animal Science and minored in Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences. She competitively showed horses in the local and state circuits during high school and college and while at OSU, she was part of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) team where she went on to compete at the IHSA National Championship.

Casey has always been an avid supporter of the US Women’s National Soccer Team. She loves to travel to watch the USWNT and has gone to over 12 of their games. She is also a huge supporter of the Portland Thorns and has been a season ticket holder for over 4 years.

Casey is up for the challenge to use her 6 years in the public service sector to help Girl Boss Sports further the fight. She is excited to help Girl Boss Sports make a difference by helping support girls in sports by finding them role models, coaches, and support systems so that they can succeed in all aspects of life.

Sara Baumgardner is Girl Boss Sports Videographer. She joined the GBS team with a passion for sports and also the movement for women equality.

She has played basketball, and soccer since she was 4 years old. And a couple years of women's professional football. She played Wide Receiver and Cornerback for the Seattle Majestics for the 2019 season in the WNFC.

She has over 15 years of experience working with film and directing. She's gone to film school and directed plays in theatre. She comes to the team to mix her passion about filming and showing what GBS brings to this world.

Hannah joins the Girl Boss Sports team as the Social Media Manager. She hopes to embrace the power of story as the instinctual way in which people process information. Using universal storytelling principles to create meaningful content across various platforms. Hannah wants to inspire young females to follow their dreams. There is a need of exposure. Stories should be told in order to make an impact on the next generation of female athletes.

Hannah has recently finished graduate school at the University of Washington with a Master of Communication in Digital Media. Her focus is to become competent in superb storytelling practices that engage both online and offline audiences to effect change.

In Hannah’s spare time, she enjoys volunteering for different organizations. One of her favorite roles as a volunteer would have to be working on the stretcher crew for OL Reign. This entails being on standby during matches, ready (with a stretcher) to carry any injured players off the field. Hannah always tells people that as long as she doesn’t have to do her job, she’s doing a good job.

Equality and inclusion should be a given in our society. Unfortunately it isn’t. Hannah. believes Girl Boss Sports is a leader in leveling the playing field. She is constantly inspired by what Girl Boss Sports does and is excited for what the future holds for this awesome organization.

Growing up playing all different types of sports, from cross country starting at age three to soccer for 10 years, Jessica realized that there was a misrepresentation of women. With her strong passion in writing and Human Resources she is very excited to offer her experience to the Girl Boss Sports team to have a hand in changing this.

Juli comes to the Girl Boss Sports family as our new Softball Program Manager and she'll be leading our efforts to make change for girls and womxn everywhere involved in this sport. As a child, Juli played baseball, and her favorite positions were pitcher and catcher. Juli continued her passion for sports as she went to college for Exercise Science. After her Bachelor’s degree she completed her Master’s degree in Kinesiology. She now owns her own personal training studio in Kingston NY. Juli lives by the quote, “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”

Lynwood area, you’re lucky! Isa is our coach for Lynwood, Shoreline, Edmonds, and Mountlake Terrace. She’s a baller and a well travelled big brain!

Isa currently plays for the Guam Women’s National Team. For the past ten years, she has evolved in the RCL Division 1 under top nation programs, travelled to Europe to play and has coached teams and individual players in Washington and California.

Her favorite female soccer player is Homare Sawa from Japan. A total legend, named best player at the 2011 World Cup! Her favorite style of play is from Barcelona because of the way they string passes together.
Funny facts, Isa loves playing the ukulele in her spare time. She is on a full academic scholarship at the University of Washington, majoring in Indigenous Anthropology and Aquatic Fisheries Sciences. And her favorite passion besides soccer, is traveling the world!

Mandi is our coach in Kistap County. She is a certified personal trainer. She plays midfield and goal keeper, sometimes on the same night. She also won a gold medal in figure skating at the Utah Winter Games, and a silver and bronze medal at the US Western Sectionals in 2011.

Fun facts: She stretched Lindsey Horan off of the field in the final minutes of the last 2019 Reign FC home game. She has been on the stretcher crew for 1.5 years, and a volunteer with the Reign for four seasons.
She also got a "Good defending" comment out of Ali Krieger! 💪🏼

She speaks French and Lithuanian fluently, in addition to her native american english and love dogs and sloths!

Thanks so much to Mandi for her communicative enthusiasm in willing to advance the game for women in sport!