“This is where I’m supposed to be, I’m in a good place,” she said. In only a few months, she has developed her game substantially and sees just how much the players and staff in the organization care about their club. It was an easy adjustment for the Connecticut native. “I think hearing that just started everything else on the right foot.” “When Chris called me, he told me the team valued me as a player and person, and wanted to help me grow,” she recalled. Welcome to the Windy Cityīefore Bike even set foot in Chicago, she already felt at home with the Red Stars. Three weeks after that call, Bike was driving herself out to Chicago ready to take on a new challenge with a new team in a new city. “Chris reached out in January, they needed a winger, and I needed a team,” Bike said.
Quickly, things started falling into place for the 25-year-old winger. I was reminding myself over and over again throughout this process that timing is everything.” “I was realistic that it may not happen, and it would have nothing to do with me or my abilities as a soccer player. “Coming into the league as a trialist, I know how hard it is to get onto teams here,” she said. In a small league with a limited amount of roster spots, oftentimes talented players find themselves on the outside trying to break in. Throughout the process, Bike remained optimistic but realistic. “It was honestly a little difficult at times, and as we got closer to pre-season, it was a little scary.” “I really wanted to stay in this league and stay stateside, so it was a lot of training with not knowing where my future was going to be or what was going to happen,” Bike said. During those weeks, Bike continued to train, not knowing if she would find a team in the National Women’s Soccer League. It would be exactly eight weeks until she was picked up by the Chicago Red Stars. Getting waived by Gotham FC was a tough moment in Jenna Bike’s career EM Dash-USA TODAY Sports “That hurt, but I had so much support around me, so many people who believed in me, that it helped me get through that process,” Bike told AllForXI.
For Jenna Bike, who paused her nursing career to pursue her dreams of playing pro, getting waived from NJ/NY Gotham FC last November was understandably difficult.
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For any professional soccer player, getting waived from a club can be a hard process.
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