Julie Foudy (21:38)
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It came out actually in May of last year and I do hope you've seen it or you are going to watch it. It is on ESPN Plus. If you don't have ESPN plus, you can now get it on YouTube. It's not behind a paywall, so you can get it for free on YouTube. Just Google Katie Meyer's story and do the full version. It's 48 plus minutes. And even if you haven't watched it, I hope you'll listen into this episode because there's so much to be learned from Katie's story. First, a little background on Katie Meyer. She was a senior captain of the Stanford women's soccer team in 2022. She was a goalkeeper. She was an NCAA champion. She won in 2019 when she was a red shirt freshman. In 2022, she was applying to Stanford Law School. She was a defense innovative scholar, which is a huge honor to be named that at Stanford. She was a leading. She was actually teaching a design class at Stanford. She was about to. And she was a role model in so many different ways. Everyone talked about how much she just spread joy and light wherever she went. She was, as people would say, their biggest cheerleader. She was a very loyal friend. And, and many even said like one day they thought she would be president of the United States. And not in a joking way. It was like, yeah, she would, she would be president of the United States. She was super tight with her parents, Steve and Gina. She, they would talk about how she would introduce them to everyone on campus when they came for a visit. And she was walking around the school and for someone who by all external measures seemed to have a wonderful life, I think I said already she was applying to Stanford Law School. She was waiting to find out if she got in. It was understandably a shock to all when Katie died by suicide almost exactly four years ago on March 1, 2022. I played at Stanford as well. Many years before her. And I knew her not well. I had interviewed her. I actually called the national championship game that Stanford won in 2019. And we interviewed Katie because she made these incredible saves in the penalty kick ending of that game. And so I was equally shocked, as was the entire Stanford community, about Katie's death and suicide. And I had a lot of questions and stories started coming out about Katie being under disciplinary investigation at Stanford. And so, of course, the questions that go through your mind are why? For what? And I had heard it was because of an incident in which Katie allegedly spilled coffee on a football player accused of sexually assaulting her Stanford soccer teammate. I definitely wanted to know more and dig deeper into Stanford's disciplinary process. And so I called one of the fabulous, most fabulous producers and directors with E60 at ESPN, Jen Carson. We've worked together before on various stories. And I said, I really want to tell this story and tell who Katie is and. And find out more about what happened. And she knew all about it, of course. And so Jen Carson and I then went to Gina and Steve. I didn't know, did not know Gina and Steve. We waited about a year and asked if we could tell Katie's story and show her beyond the national headlines that people had seen about her death. Because we really wanted people to hear from Katie and her own words and her own voice. The first 15, 20 minutes of the documentary. If you've seen it, you may have noticed that it's all in Katie's voice. We wanted her to come to life, and we told that story to Steve and Gina and they graciously, after a lot of conversations, and rightfully so, had some hesitation about it, said, yes, we trust you to tell this story. And it took us, Abby, gosh,
