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Ashleigh Gunning Blog: Defining yourself
Soccer is not my life. Go ahead and check to make sure you’re on the right site and reading the blog you thought you were reading… yep, you’re on a women’s professional soccer site
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Ashleigh Gunning Blog: Unfortunate translations
I would like to encourage everyone reading this to let the 12-year-old who still lives inside them out; because that adolescent is going to get a good laugh. I generally am not one for
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Ashleigh Gunning Blog: On the road again
Here we are, less than a week out from the beginning of the season and I am starting to get that really excited/kind of nervous/a little apprehensive – but, mostly excited and a little
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Ashleigh Gunning Blog: The business of resting
Ashleigh Gunning, right, realized that after 17-straight months of playing, it’s time for a short rest. It’s not something that your typical American is good at doing, and the longer I’m spending out of
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Ashleigh Gunning Blog: Make a difference, make Joseph Kony famous
This may very well be the most important blog I post all year. It’s not about me, it’s not about women’s soccer, it’s not about my teammates, thankfully it doesn’t directly involve my family
Read More »Ashleigh Gunning Blog: Clothing lessons from Scandinavia
Anytime that someone moves to a new part of the world, you have to go through an adjustment period. It’s not necessarily a bad time—I think the best word to describe it is: AWKWARD
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Ashleigh Gunning Blog: Answering the ‘why?’
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But, I can’t accept not trying.” Going off of my last blog and inspired by some of the incredible feedback I’ve gotten I want to dig
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Ashleigh Gunning Blog: Letter to a 16-year-old me
I often get asked: ‘Why do I play football? Is it hard to be away from your family and friends for so long? Does it get lonely? Are you actually making enough to live
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