10-Professional Soccer Player Emily Menges: on her secret to getting fit, the value of reading, and imaginary friends

Professional soccer player Emily Menges, attended Georgetown University. While there, she earned the Big East Defensive Player of the Year and was a Mac Herman Trophy semi-finalist (equivalent to the Heisman) in 2012 and 2013. After college, Emily was drafted to the Portland Thorns FC. In 2016, she earned the Team MVP, was voted Player of the Year by the fans, and recently received a call-up to camp with the full US national team.  Emily has a wild imagination. This made for an entertaining conversation. We covered a wide array of topics, some of which people may think we are a bit crazy, rest assured, this is an accurate statement.  In the first portion of the interview, Emily talks about what it’s like juggling another  job while playing professionally, her obsession with books, the novel she has been writing since high school, and the characters in the book, of which have been living in her head since she was a child.  In the second portion of the interview, we dive into soccer: how Emily’s hate towards track motivates her during fitness, what it was like getting voted Player of the Year by  Thorns fans, why Christine Sinclair and her slurp mustard before games, and how she logs more miles in a game than anyone else on the team, even though she’s a center back.    Share the love If you haven’t already, I would be so very grateful if you rated and left me a review of the podcast. It takes two minutes! Here’s what to do. Click HERE Click “view in itunes” Click the “ratings and reviews” tab Click “write a review” and show me love <3 Resources Show notes and link to Emily's favorite books Click HERE to become a part of Friday Feelz Click HERE for a list of the 10 books I believe ever female athlete MUST read. Click HERE  to be the first to know when a new podcast or article drops, and receive other exclusive content