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Ellie Maybury of Soccer Herformance discusses the obstacles that face females in high performance in the second episode of the latest People Behind the Tech series podcast. For all the issues, she remains optimistic about the steps that can be taken.<\/p>\n \n \n \n

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When the US women\u2019s national soccer team started tracking their menstrual cycles, it was seen as groundbreaking.<\/h6>\n

At least part of their success in claiming back to back World Cup titles in 2019 was attributed to the fact they could adjust individual training plans and nutrition based on the data.<\/p>\n

Ellie Maybury was part of the USWNT backroom team that introduced this initiative and, more than half a decade on, tech support for female athletes doesn\u2019t seem to have progressed as much as she\u2019d have hoped. At least in soccer.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the technology we have absorbed into the women\u2019s game has come from the men\u2019s game or men\u2019s sports environments,\u201d she tells the People Behind the Tech podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd maybe some of the processes and metrics that come with that get transferred as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybury, who recently founded Soccer Herformance, a performance consultancy for female soccer players, is in the hotseat on episode two of this series.<\/p>\n

She addressed the issues that hold back female high performance, from managing the lack of objective datapoints [4:50] and the importance of education for athletes who often misunderstand their own bodies through no fault of their own [26:20], to the need to take athletes on a journey while remaining honest about the limitations of research at the present time [17:00].<\/p>\n