through education and innovation to unlock female athletic potential.
World-leading scientists, engineers, performance coaches, and practitioners spearhead a global community dedicated to advancing injury reduction, performance, health and wellbeing for athletic females. Our suite of products will include an individual user APP, coach platform, and website, all including educational insights developed by our global experts informed from personal experiences as well as contemporary data and research on females.
Our innovation strategy will encompass a blend of studentships and data centers, as well as a focus on insights, intervention, and dissemination. Partnering with World leading universities enhances our global credibility and reflects the expertise of our multi-disciplinary advisors. Our focus is to revolutionize how we train and support female athletes, and develop the global blueprint for athletic females.
As well as the individual APP, we are creating a coach platform, where coaches and practitioners can see all of the self-reported menstrual cycle, wellness, injury/illness, activity, sleep and recovery data for their athletes in one place. This will enable us to educate, support and empower the MDT (multi-disciplinary team) to make more informed decisions on a daily basis. “Revolutionize how we support female athletes” – Kang, 2024.
Introducing our first Athlete Ambassadors…more coming soon
Samantha Mewis
Vermont, US
Samantha Mewis is editor-in-chief of The Women’s Game, a media vertical brought to you by the Men in Blazers Media Network. A UCLA alum, she helped bring home the 2013 national championship her junior year. Drafted to the Western New York Flash in 2015, she started all 20 regular-season games as a rookie in 2015, and in 2016, she helped the Cinderella team win the league championship by scoring crucial goals in both the semis and the final. In 2017, while the Flash franchise was sold and rebranded the North Carolina Courage, the core of the team remained the same. The team continued to excel, winning the 2017, 2018, and 2019 NWSL shields and 2018 and 2019 NWSL Championships. Mewis also won the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup with the USWNT and was named the #1 Player in the World by ESPNFC in 2021 during her time with Manchester City. Sam and her older sister, Kristie, are Bronze medalists from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Sam worked as a leader of the USWNTPA to fight for equal pay and previously had a weekly women’s soccer podcast with cohost Lynn Williams called Snacks, produced by Just Women’s Sports.
Rachael Ott Chancey
Alexandria, VA U.S.
Rachael Ott Chancey is an Active Duty Air Force Colonel with over 22 years of service. She commissioned into the Air Force in 2002 with a degree in Exercise Science, Indiana University of PA. She has a Masters degree in Human Relations from University of Oklahoma and another in Strategic Studies from Air War College, Air University. She has seven overseas deployments and has lived all over the world serving in multiple roles. She is currently stationed at the Pentagon, Washington DC.
She has a passion in helping others and is training for her seventh marathon and her fourth Chicago marathon, with the Ronald McDonald House Charities. Her running has given her a passion and a purpose and she strives to make the world a better place.
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We are not going to borrow a manual from the men. We want to understand women’s physiology and biology and train our athletes according to that.”
— Michele Kang
Michele Kang
Owner & Founder
Michele Kang is an American businesswoman, investor, and philanthropist. Born and raised in South Korea, Kang came to the United States as a student to pursue her advanced education. She has spent her career building businesses that challenge the status quo—and leveraging her own successes, she has focused on helping others reach their own potential.
In 2022, Kang became the first woman of color to own a National Women’s Soccer League team: the 2021 League champions, the Washington Spirit. Kang has become a leading global advocate to create a level playing field between men and women in football, starting with equal pay. She was selected as one of Sports Business Journal’s 2022 Power Players in Women’s Sports and was named to Sports Illustrated Power List 2023: 50 Most Influential Figures in Sports.
In May 2023, Kang signed an agreement with the OL Groupe to create the first-of-its-kind global multi-team women’s football organization. She became the majority owner and CEO of the newly formed company, making it the first ever women-owned, women-led multi-football organization. In December 2023, Kang further expanded her impact acquiring the London City Lionesses, the only fully independent women’s football club among England’s top two professional women’s leagues. A leader in advancing women’s sports around the globe, Kang received the 2023 Sports Business Journal Deal of the Year Award for her acquisition of the Washington Spirit in 2022.
In gratitude for the U.S. soldiers who helped defend her home country during the Korean War, Kang stands with American Veterans. She has been a proud supporter of the National Museum of the Marine Corps and The Chosin Few, which is a member organization of Veterans, spouses, and lineal descendants of one of the bloodiest battles of the Korean War, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. She also supports organizations that aim to eradicate homelessness among women Veterans and find employment for wounded Veterans and their caretakers.
As a long-time, art-loving philanthropist, she currently serves as a Trustee on the boards of the Washington National Opera and the Norton Museum of Art. She has also served on the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts and the Palm Beach Symphony Orchestra board.
Kang has been recognized for her philanthropic work and trailblazing entrepreneurship with numerous awards. She is the recipient of the 2023 Horatio Alger Award. In 2022, Junior Achievement of Greater Washington inducted her as a Hall of Fame Laureate. She received the EY Entrepreneur of The Year® for the Washington, DC region and the U.S. Award for Services. Along with U.S. senators, high ranking government officials, and top executives of Fortune 500 companies, Kang was named an inaugural member of 100 Women Leaders in STEM in 2012 and one of the Top 100 CEO Leaders in STEM in 2016.
Kang earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from The University of Chicago and a master’s degree in public and private management from the Yale School of Management.
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