Free Virtual Summit • October 20–22, 2026 • Registration Is Open
The Beyond The Athlete College Summit brings female college athletes together with coaches, leaders, experts, and professionals for three days of conversations about navigating identity, pressure, leadership, opportunity, career, and life beyond competitive sport.
College athletics can shape far more than performance. This Summit is designed to help you better understand who you are, recognize the strengths you are building, use your voice, explore what comes next, and prepare intentionally for the life you're creating beyond the game.
Free Summit Access includes the complete three-day core experience. VIP All-Access adds 90-day replay access, the Day 3 Live Closing Conversation, the Closing Conversation replay, and additional Summit resources. Explore VIP All-Access →
College athletics can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life — and one of the most demanding.
You're balancing competition, academics, expectations, relationships, visibility, comparison, decisions about your future, and the pressure to figure out who you are while still performing at a high level. Some of the biggest questions you're navigating may have very little to do with the scoreboard.
Who am I when my performance isn't going the way I want?
How do I advocate for myself without being seen as difficult?
What do I want my life and career to look like after sport?
How do I make the most of this experience without losing myself in it?
That's why the Beyond The Athlete College Summit was created — to make more room for the conversations female college athletes are already having with themselves and give them perspectives, tools, and support for navigating what comes next.
This Summit isn't about giving you another list of things you're supposed to accomplish. It's about helping you better understand yourself, recognize what athletics has already built in you, and make more intentional decisions about how you want to lead, communicate, grow, and prepare for the future.
Explore what happens when confidence and identity become tied to performance, playing time, statistics, expectations, comparison, or external validation — and how to build a stronger sense of self within the demands of college athletics.
Create more awareness around performance pressure, emotional well-being, resilience, balance, and what it means to take care of yourself while competing at a high level.
Build confidence around communicating what you need, asking better questions, navigating difficult conversations, setting boundaries, and advocating for yourself with coaches, teammates, professors, and others.
Explore leadership beyond titles and captain roles — including influence, communication, relationships, decision-making, accountability, and how you show up within your team and community.
Think intentionally about your reputation, visibility, relationships, NIL opportunities, network, and the story you are building both inside and outside athletics.
Identify the skills athletics has developed in you, explore career possibilities, strengthen your network, and begin preparing for a future where your athletic experience becomes an asset rather than your entire identity.
The College Summit is centered first and foremost around female college athletes. It is also relevant for the coaches, athletic departments, development professionals, and organizations helping athletes navigate the demands and opportunities of the college experience.
For student-athletes navigating performance, identity, confidence, leadership, NIL, relationships, career decisions, and the transition toward life beyond competitive sport.
For coaches who want to better support the whole athlete while strengthening communication, leadership, confidence, connection, and long-term development within their programs.
For athletic leaders looking for additional conversations and resources around whole-athlete development, career readiness, leadership, mental well-being, and life beyond sport.
For professionals supporting athletes through personal development, leadership, career preparation, NIL education, transition, and other areas beyond athletic performance.
For colleges, nonprofits, associations, and organizations committed to improving the experience and long-term development of female college athletes.
You don't have to wait until your final season to start thinking about what comes next. The earlier you understand your strengths, identity, voice, relationships, and possibilities beyond sport, the more intentionally you can use the experience you're having right now.
The first group matters. But preparing for your future means developing both the athlete and the woman behind her.
Prerecorded sessions will be released each day, so you can watch when it works for you. There are no required session times for the core Summit experience.
How do you stay connected to who you are when performance, expectations, and comparison are constantly demanding your attention?
Explore identity, performance pressure, expectations, comparison, confidence, mental well-being, and maintaining a sense of self within college athletics.
How do you learn to use your voice, advocate for yourself, and recognize the influence you already have?
Strengthen communication, leadership, self-advocacy, relationships, personal brand, and the ability to use your voice on and beyond your team.
How do you prepare for a future where your athletic experience becomes part of your story — not the end of it?
Translate athletic experience into career strengths, explore professional opportunities, build networks, and prepare intentionally for life after competitive sport.
Virtual • October 20–22 • Free Registration
Athletes, coaches, educators, leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals are coming together to share perspectives that go beyond performance.
Each speaker brings a different lens to the conversations female college athletes are navigating around identity, confidence, leadership, opportunity, career, and life beyond sport.
More presentation details will be added as we get closer to the Summit.
IDENTITY + VISIBILITY
Founder, Beyond Her Game
Former Division I Softball Player
Former Division I softball player and Beyond Her Game founder Tori Barker helps female athletes understand who they are beyond sport, recognize the strengths they already carry, and build visibility for what comes next.
LEADERSHIP + WOMEN'S SPORTS HISTORY
Author / Researcher / Writer, Sidelined No Longer
Former College Basketball + Softball Player
Author, researcher, former college athlete, and longtime coach Karen S. Rudolph connects the history of women's college sports to the opportunities female athletes have today while honoring the women whose courage and advocacy helped create them.
ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT + OPPORTUNITY
Founder & Executive Director, A.B.C. Sports Foundation
Athlete development leader Ashley Danielle Allen helps expand what is possible for women in sport by connecting confidence, leadership, exposure, culture, and opportunities beyond competition.
PERSONAL VALUE + OPPORTUNITY
Founder / CEO, B.E. Collective+
Antoine Burrell helps athletes understand how their story, skills, relationships, and personal value can create opportunities through NIL, professional development, and life beyond sport.
IDENTITY + BELONGING
Director, Brand Partnerships and Sales, Hudl
Sports industry leader Mary Novick brings a perspective on access, belonging, identity, and the importance of helping female athletes feel seen, valued, and invested in throughout their athletic experience.
ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT + WHAT COMES NEXT
Chief of Recruiting & Operations, Wake Forest University Women's Basketball
College basketball leader Nikki Flores brings an inside perspective on athlete development, relationships, decision-making, and preparing student-athletes for opportunities that extend beyond their playing careers.
CAREER READINESS + ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Assistant Teaching Professor, Entrepreneurship, University of Colorado Boulder, Leeds School of Business
Entrepreneurship professor, operator, and advisor George Douaire helps athletes translate the discipline, coachability, and decision-making skills built through sport into business, entrepreneurship, and what comes next.
ATHLETE IDENTITY + EMOTIONAL AWARENESS
Emotional Awareness Coach for Professional and Collegiate Athletes, Soul Integrated Athletics
17-Year Pro Baseball Coach
Former professional baseball coach Douglas White now helps collegiate and professional athletes understand the emotional and inner factors that influence confidence, identity, decision-making, and performance.
CONFIDENCE + MENTAL PERFORMANCE
Mental Game Coach, Author + Keynote Speaker, Tami Matheny Coaching
Former College Basketball + Tennis Player
Mental game coach, author, and former collegiate athlete Tami Matheny helps athletes build confidence, focus, mental toughness, and the skills to perform under pressure and grow through challenges.
ATHLETE IDENTITY + TRANSITION
Founder, Whole Person Conversations
Former College Athlete
Melissa Douaire brings attention to the emotional impact of leaving high-level athletics and the identity loss that can come when sport changes or ends, creating space for conversation, validation, and support.
LEADERSHIP + CAREER READINESS
Former College Volleyball Player + DIII Coach
Former collegiate volleyball player and Division III coach Lea Taylor helps women athletes translate the leadership, communication, and resilience developed through sport into confidence and success in their careers.
CAREER + PERSONAL SUCCESS
Founder
Former Division I Field Hockey Player, Penn Alumna '99
Former Division I athlete Jennifer R. White brings a perspective on how the skills built through athletics can shape entrepreneurship, leadership, career decisions, and success on your own terms.
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Supporting athletes on and beyond the field.
Join us October 20–22 for three days of conversations designed to help female college athletes navigate identity, leadership, opportunity, career, and life beyond competitive sport.
Register free for the core Summit experience or choose VIP All-Access for more time, the Live Closing Conversation, and additional resources.
Everything you need to experience the core College Summit.
Watch the daily prerecorded sessions on your schedule during the Summit access window.
More access. More time. More opportunity to put what you learn into action.
Ideal if your schedule makes it difficult to watch every session during the Summit — or if you want more time to revisit the conversations, apply what you learn, and use the Summit throughout your season and transition beyond sport.
Register below for free access to the Beyond The Athlete College Summit, October 20–22.
Want more time with the Summit? Explore VIP All-Access →
Upgrade to VIP All-Access for $37 and get 90-day replay access to all three days of the College Summit, access to the Day 3 Live Closing Conversation and replay, plus additional VIP resources.
Free registration still gives you access to the complete core Summit during the October 20–22 event window.
The Beyond The Athlete Summit brings together leaders, athletes, coaches, experts, universities, families, and organizations committed to improving how female athletes are supported throughout every stage of their journey.
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Founder, Beyond Her Game
Executive Director, A.B.C. Sports Foundation
Founder, B.E. Collective+
The College Summit is one part of a three-part virtual series supporting female athletes throughout every stage of their journey — from high school to college and into life beyond competitive sport.
Join us for three days of conversations about identity, leadership, opportunity, career, and what it means to navigate college athletics while preparing intentionally for the woman you're becoming.
Better awareness creates better decisions.
Better decisions create stronger futures.
Beyond The Athlete College Summit
October 20–22, 2026
Presented by Beyond Her Game + A.B.C. Sports Foundation
