I think to this point, we've been so silenced and siloed as athletes. Again, we spoke about it before we came here. Finally, even to just listen and connect with athletes in different sports.... For so long, I felt like I was a troublemaker and I was a problem person for speaking up. I'm siloed, while these organizations and the people who are causing this harm can hide behind the veil of an organization. I'm standing in front of everybody with this big allegation.
We've had no power as athletes. You get broken by the system and then you want nothing to do with sports or your experience or whatever. I think, to this point, that's what's gone on. We haven't been collectively together to know each other's experiences, to know we're not crazy and that our experience is happening in different versions in other sports.
I also don't think that our voices have been amplified to the level that they're being amplified now. This massive system has suppressed all of us, and I feel like we're all starting to rise above.
I hope that people now understand the full scope of what we've been through. I hope that people now feel like this cannot continue, that we have to change this and we have to hear every story and understand fully the conflicts of interest that have allowed this kind of harm to happen.