November 17–19, 2026 • Registration Open
Your Athletic Career Ended. What It Built in You Didn't.
The Beyond The Athlete Former College Athlete Summit brings together conversations designed for women navigating life beyond competitive sport.
For three days, we're creating space to explore identity, purpose, confidence, career, relationships, financial well-being, leadership, and what it means to carry the athlete mindset into the next chapter of your life.
Because your athletic career may have ended. Your development didn't.
What Happens When the Game Ends — but Part of Your Identity Is Still Tied to It?
Leaving competitive sport can create more change than people expect.
The schedule changes. The team changes. The goals change. The structure disappears. And sometimes, the identity you've carried for years starts to feel less certain.
For many former athletes, the transition isn't simply about finding a new job or a new routine. It's about understanding who you are now — and deciding what you want to build next.
Who am I now that I'm no longer competing?
How do I use the strengths sport built in me in this next season?
What do I want my career, relationships, finances, and life to look like now?
How do I move forward without feeling like I'm leaving part of myself behind?
That's why the Beyond The Athlete Former College Athlete Summit was created — to make room for honest conversations about transition, identity, purpose, and building a meaningful life beyond competitive sport.
More Clarity. More Intention. A Stronger Sense of What Comes Next.
This Summit isn't about telling you who you should become after sport. It's about helping you recognize what athletics already built in you, understand how those strengths show up differently now, and think more intentionally about the life you're creating beyond competition.
Reconnect With Your Identity
Explore who you are beyond your former athlete role and how to build a stronger sense of self that isn't dependent on performance, achievement, or being part of a team.
Navigate Transition + Change
Understand the emotional and practical realities of moving beyond competitive sport, including grief, uncertainty, changing routines, confidence, and adjusting to a different kind of life.
Recognize What Sport Built in You
Identify the discipline, resilience, leadership, teamwork, communication, adaptability, and problem-solving skills you developed through athletics — and learn how to use them intentionally now.
Build Your Career + Professional Identity
Explore how your athletic experience can become an advantage in your career, leadership, entrepreneurship, networking, visibility, and professional development.
Create Confidence Beyond Performance
Think differently about confidence, self-worth, success, and achievement when there is no longer a scoreboard telling you how you're doing.
Intentionally Build What's Next
Create more clarity around your relationships, finances, purpose, priorities, leadership, and the life you want to build in this next chapter.
Built for Women Navigating Life Beyond Competitive Sport
Former College Athletes
For women adjusting to life after college athletics and navigating questions around identity, career, purpose, confidence, relationships, and what comes next.
Former Athletes Further Into Their Careers
For women who may be years removed from competition but still recognize how deeply their athlete identity, mindset, and experiences influence how they lead, work, and live.
Women Navigating Reinvention
For former athletes moving through career changes, entrepreneurship, leadership, relationships, motherhood, personal growth, or a new season of life.
Professionals Supporting Former Athletes
For coaches, counselors, athlete-development professionals, organizations, employers, and leaders who want to better understand the transition beyond competitive sport.
You don't have to leave the athlete behind. You get to decide what parts of her you carry forward.
The Game May Have Ended. The Athlete Mindset Is Still With You.
What Competitive Sport Gave You
- Discipline
- Resilience
- Coachability
- Leadership
- Teamwork
- Drive
- Accountability
- Adaptability
- Performance under pressure
Where Those Strengths Can Go Next
- Career
- Entrepreneurship
- Leadership
- Relationships
- Community
- Financial decisions
- Personal growth
- Family
- Purpose
You don't have to leave the athlete behind. You get to decide what parts of her you carry forward.
Three Days Focused on Life Beyond Competitive Sport
New prerecorded sessions will be released each day so attendees can watch on their schedule. Each day focuses on a different part of the transition from athlete identity into the next chapter.
Identity After Sport
Who are you when being an athlete is no longer the role that organizes your life?
Explore identity, confidence, transition, grief, self-worth, mental and emotional well-being, and the experience of redefining yourself after competitive sport.
Career, Money & Opportunity
How do you turn what sport built in you into greater confidence and opportunity in the next chapter?
Explore career development, transferable skills, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, networking, leadership, professional identity, and building opportunities beyond sport.
Purpose, Relationships & What's Next
How do you intentionally build a life that reflects who you're becoming — not only who you've been?
Explore relationships, purpose, boundaries, leadership, personal growth, community, wellness, and the next chapter beyond competitive athletics.
Virtual • November 17–19, 2026 • Free Registration
Choose How You Want to Experience the Summit
$0
- Access to the three-day Summit during the live event window
- Daily prerecorded presentations
- Access to each day's core Summit experience
- Summit updates and reminders
$37
- 90-day replay access
- All three Summit days
- Live Closing Conversation access
- Closing Conversation replay
- VIP workbook
- Available speaker resources
Save Your Spot for the Former College Athlete Summit
Join us November 17–19 for three days of conversations designed for women navigating identity, career, purpose, relationships, leadership, and life beyond competitive sport.
November 17–19, 2026 • Virtual • Free to Register
Creating More Conversations Around the Whole Athlete
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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Tori Barker
Founder, Beyond Her Game
Ashley Danielle
Executive Director, A.B.C. Sports Foundation
Antoine Burrell
Founder, B.E. Collective+
Explore the Full Beyond The Athlete Summit Series
The Former College Athlete Summit is the third part of a three-part virtual series supporting female athletes through every stage of the journey — from high school to college and into life beyond competitive sport.
Former College Athlete Summit FAQs
Your Athletic Career Was One Chapter. You Still Get to Decide What Comes Next.
Join us for three days of conversations about identity, career, relationships, leadership, purpose, financial confidence, and what it means to intentionally build a life beyond competitive sport.
You don't have to leave behind everything sport built in you. You get to decide what you carry forward.
Beyond The Athlete Former College Athlete Summit
November 17–19, 2026
Presented by Beyond Her Game + A.B.C. Sports Foundation