Stephanie Savino is counting down the days until May 17, when the first ball is kicked in the new USL W League.

A revived and slightly tweaked version of the 1995-2015 iteration of the W-League, the competition is described on its website as “the nation’s pre-professional league, developing the next generation of women’s talent both on and off the field, enhancing the women’s soccer pipeline between college and professional soccer”.

It seems a perfect fit for Savino, who has spent her life’s work advocating for females to have more space in soccer.

She offers WSC what she describes as her “elevator pitch”, of who she is and what she does.