Rise & Soar supports female youth athletes through leadership development, performance psychology education, and opportunity access pathways to help close leadership and confidence gaps in youth sports.

Our Core Vision:

Rise & Soar seeks to become

the leading global media authority for female youth athlete leadership, performance development, and opportunity education.

Not just inspiration media.

Leadership + Education + Movement Journalism.

Our Rise & Soar 7 Leadership Authority Categories are as follows:

🟣 Female Athlete Participation + Leadership Retention

-By age 14, girls drop out of sports at 2x the rate of boys

-About 1 in 3 girls will quit sports during adolescence

-Girls who stay in sports are 20% more likely to graduate college

Rise & Soar provides young female athletes and their parents ongoing resources and opportunities for Leadership, Scholarships, Visibility and Recognition at sports / media industry, education and government levels. Our mission is to make it easier for adolescent females to remain in sports, which improves overall body image and self-confidence at this critical age.

🔵 Leadership + Life Outcomes

Female athletes are:

-75% more likely to hold leadership roles later in life

-30% more likely to report higher confidence levels

-15% more likely to pursue STEM or leadership careers

Through the Rise & Soar ALLI credential courses and leadership profile board, your athlete can stand above their peers at our Summit portfolio reviews with participating Universities, Admissions and Core Sports Programs, worldwide.

We believe this grants greater access to more scholarship opportunities for our members.

🟡 Mental Health + Performance

-Nearly 60% of female youth athletes report performance anxiety

-Athlete burnout is increasing due to training + academic pressure

-Mental performance training improves competition consistency by up to 25% in some studies

Rise & Soar partners with Stacey Goodrich, SO CONNECTED (mental strength coach to many of the top dominating athletes in the world, including her own D1 gynnast daughter) writer of several books and creator of the 'A-CIRCLE' technique, along with other industry professionals, to bring our members the most relevant and current resources and tools for a performance edge.

🟢 Education + Opportunity Outcomes

Female athletes are:

-10–15% more likely to receive college scholarships when multi-dimensional leadership skills are documented

-Student athletes show higher college graduation rates than non-athletes

Rise & Soar is the only media network, platform and movement committed to provide impact research data and recruiting pathway content through our trademarked ALLI program. Our members are profiled for their chosen sport(s), with stats as well as scored through our propriety IMPACT score for leadership and service, which is then made available to universities and sports programs, worldwide, including our exclusive Summit events with portfolio reviews.

Service hours and life skill courses documented through our Rise & Soar Leaderboard badge system offer additional opportunities and events to our female athlete leaders for greater odds of success after high school athletics.

🌍 Diversity + Access Equity

-Minority female athletes often have less access to elite training infrastructure

-Youth sport participation decreases significantly in underserved communities without leadership programs

Rise & Soar serves and supports diversity and inclusion for all of its' female athletes, for greater odds of success at elite sport and collegiate levels.

As a media network and platform, we align and collaborate with other like minded programs and companies to create and promote a trusted network of visionaries to our athlete leaders and their families, which offers greater access to level the playing field, literally and figuratively.

🏆 Performance + Multi-Sport Development

Youth athletes who participate in multiple sports:

-Reduce injury risk by up to 30%

-Show higher long-term athletic retention

Rise & Soar partners with ANAM Environments to provide environmental support for extreme and elite athletes as well as their families. Through a trademarked Neuroaesthetic and Neurodesign questionnaire/protocol, the first of its kind for athletes in their home and training environments in the world, ANAM Environments draws on evidence backed science to help coaches and parents create a space tailored to their unique needs for athletes.

💜 Service + Leadership Impact

Youth service participation correlates with:

-Higher academic achievement

-Higher civic engagement later in life

-Stronger leadership identity formation

Through the Rise & Soar ALLI Index and Impact Scores, your athlete's profile display the characteristics that colleges and sport programs are looking for in their candidates at admission, with an unbiased scoring system. Your athlete earns their leadership hours through formal documented community service and life skills courses made available to our members, through credentialed and respected professionals in their respective fields.

🏔 Female Athlete Economic + Opportunity Statistics

-Women’s sports media viewership is growing faster than men’s sports in several markets

-Youth sports leadership development is becoming a major education investment category

Rise & Soar corporate partners get first access to our research data and profiles of our Impact Leader Athlete Members, which draws higher quality and vision/mission aligned corporate partners. High level partnerships underwrite and offer additional opportunities and resources to our athlete leaders as a requirement of our partnerships, to benefit all parties for win-win relationships and long-term loyalty program sustainability.

🎥 Media + Influence Statistics

Youth audiences:

-Over 70% of youth athletes consume sports education content on mobile platforms

-Short-form video education content performs best for youth engagement

Rise & Soar consistently engages on social media with athletes, families, media networks, sport networks, pageant networks, coaches, mentors, legislators and other professionals.

🧠 Performance Environment Statistics (Our Signature Space)

-Training environments significantly influence performance consistency

-Sleep quality can impact athletic performance by 10–30%

Through the Rise & Soar and ANAM Environments partnership, evidence based science is presented through a trademarked, one-of-a-kind evaluation and protocol, tiered for greater access at all economic levels. From baseline tier all the way to whole home/whole family and training center levels.

Additionally, Rise & Soar is partnering with Ethos Design Collective and Linda Kafka (Founder of NeuroDesign Academy) for greater certification opportunities for interior designers. Ethos is building their collective of certified designers and licensing the ANAM protocol to work with athletes and training centers worldwide, led by the co-founder and Editor of Rise & Soar.

👑 Leadership Movement Statistics

We can proudly say...

Rise & Soar supports development of:

-Performance confidence

-Advocacy for female youth athlete leaders at the government level

-Community leadership

-Opportunity access

-Ethical sportsmanship

-Youth development programs with structured mentorship show stronger long-term success outcomes.

Meaning, Rise & Soar is the first, and ONLY, media and network leadership organization supporting youth female athlete leaders through advocacy, visibility, opportunity and access around the world, through an omni-channel strategy, specifically for female athletes.

🇺🇸 Youth Sport Participation Trends

-Youth sport participation is declining in some regions due to cost + access barriers

-Female youth sports programs that include mentorship + leadership education show better retention

The Rise & Soar is a MOVEMENT, a female youth athlete leadership credential ecosystem supported by corporate, educational, and policy partners.

We are dedicated to supporting your female athlete at a holistic level from youth leagues to collegiate level and beyond. Many of the athlete leaders, mentors and partners of Rise & Soar are elite and olympic level and/or work with athletes at this level and above.

Through our partnerships and other parent perspectives we bring emerging athletes and their parents together with world level athletes for exclusive meetings and events on relevant topics, tips and mentorship opportunities not available anywhere else. The athletes who have gone before, paving the way for these up and coming athletes are shining a light to illuminate an easier path to success - sharing their stories of adversity, injury, resilience, confidence and the importance of kindness.

We share these inspiring stories of athletes from all walks of life who have overcome adversity and challenges all along their journeys. Told in their own voice, on all of our platform mediums, including our partner podcast with SO CONNECTED founder, Stacey Goodrich and a new docuseries, coming soon!

If you are interested in joining the WAITLIST for our membership and/or to be featured, please message us through our home page, HERE.

Our Rise & Soar Athlete Leaders commit to the following principles:

Strength

I train my body and mind with discipline, dedication, and integrity.

Character

I compete with honesty, respect, and sportsmanship.

Kindness

I lift up my teammates and support others on their journey.

Leadership

I use my voice and actions to inspire positive change.

Service

I give back to my community and support those around me.

Resilience

I face challenges with courage and determination.

Balance

I value my mental health, wellness, and personal growth.

By following this code, I represent the values of the Rise & Soar movement and strive to be a positive role model for the next generation of athletes.

Rise & Soar Initiatives & Resources

Environments Shape Performance — Especially Under Pressure

— The Problem

High performers don’t burn out from weakness — they burn out from environments that don’t match how their nervous system resets.

*Sleep disruption

*Emotional overload

*Panic responses

*Loss of identity

*Family tension

— The Insight

Through years of work with champions — including doctors, global leaders, entrepreneurs, creatives, and families supporting elite youth athletes (including our own) — a clear pattern began to emerge.

Across homes, workspaces, performance environments, and healing spaces, we saw the same truth again and again:

Champions regulate differently.

No matter the setting — residential, clinical, commercial, corporate, or hospitality — high performers consistently showed distinct internal reset patterns that shaped how they recover, focus, and thrive.

Some reset through structure.

Some through emotion.

Some through grounding.

Some through intensity.

And some through adaptive balance.

When environments align with these intrinsic patterns, clarity returns.

When they don’t, even the strongest performers begin to fracture.

You've seen what rising looks like - now let's talk about what evolved performance culture feels like.

"Footsteps echo,

Your hand finds mine.

Spinning through shadows into the Light.

It's a wonderful life,

a dream in flight.

Holding on tight."

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FROM TOP:

Caylei Caldwell (L) and ROC Trio (Rebecca Greenberg -R, and Olivia Greene-Middle):

Cultural history leadership, Personal comeback leadership, Global movement leadership, Historical USA representation.

Brynne B.

Personal comeback leadership, Olympic Development Athlete

Eva E.

Personal comeback leadership,

Multi-Sport Athlete

Feature Story Athlete- Dancing With Diabetes

Harper G.

Honor In Action Athlete

Multi-Sport Athlete

Anna M.

Honor In Action Athlete

See more in our current issue, out now!

STACEY GOODRICH

Mental Strength Coach for Athletes & Families

Focus Area:

Mental Strength · Parent Support · Performance Mindset

Why We Feature Her:

Stacey supports athletes and their families through the mental side of performance—helping parents feel confident in how they support their athletes during high-pressure moments.

Current Offering:

Mental Strength for Moms of Athletes — a 10-week live program designed to give moms clear tools to support confidence, mindset, and performance.

Starts January 5 · Limited Spots

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