Female Athletes Are Navigating More Than Performance. Let's Talk About What Happens Beyond the Game.
The Beyond The Athlete High School Summit brings together parents, coaches, athletic directors, educators, leaders, and experts for three days of conversations around what female high school athletes are navigating beneath the surface.
From confidence and identity to leadership, communication, belonging, college, opportunity, and life beyond sport, this Summit is designed to help the adults around female athletes support their development as whole people.
Free Summit Access includes the complete core experience. VIP All-Access adds 90-day replays, the Live Closing Conversation, and additional resources.
Choose the Access That Works for You
Join the core Summit completely free—or choose VIP if you want more time, replay access and additional resources.
Free Summit Access
$0Core High School Summit access during the event.
- Summit sessions
- Expert-led conversations
- Event-window access
VIP All-Access
$37More flexibility and more time with the Summit.
- Everything in Free
- 90-day replays
- Live Closing Conversation
- VIP workbook + resources
What Happens When the Questions She's Asking Go Beyond the Game?
If you support a female high school athlete, you've likely seen moments when what she's navigating has very little to do with athletic ability.
Do I still belong here?
What if I'm not the star anymore?
Why has my confidence changed?
How do I speak up for myself?
What if I don't play in college?
Who am I outside of my sport?
Those questions can affect confidence, mental well-being, communication, relationships, leadership, decision-making, and whether an athlete even wants to remain in her sport.
Parents and coaches care deeply about these moments. But knowing what to say, what to ask, and how to respond isn't always easy.
That's why the Beyond The Athlete High School Summit was created.
Over three virtual days, we're bringing together athletes, coaches, leaders, and experts to explore the experiences female athletes are navigating—and how the adults around them can better support their development.
More Perspective. Better Conversations. Stronger Support.
This Summit isn't about giving adults another checklist. It's about helping the people around female athletes better understand what may be happening beneath the surface and giving them ideas they can bring back into their homes, teams, schools, and organizations.
Understand Confidence Beyond Performance
Explore what happens when an athlete's confidence becomes tied to playing time, statistics, recognition, comparison, or results—and how adults can help broaden that foundation.
Support Identity Beyond Sport
Better understand the importance of helping young athletes recognize who they are beyond their athletic role.
Encourage Voice & Self-Advocacy
Explore how parents, coaches, and leaders can create environments where female athletes feel more comfortable communicating, asking questions, and advocating for themselves.
Develop Leadership
Think differently about leadership and how young women can begin recognizing their influence before they ever receive a title.
Prepare for College & Opportunity
Look beyond recruiting alone to think about the realities of college, future opportunities, decision-making, reputation, visibility, and preparation.
Help Them Think About What Comes Next
Better prepare athletes for the reality that sport will eventually change—and help them recognize how their experiences and strengths can transfer into whatever comes next.
Three Days Focused on the Whole Female Athlete
Identity & Confidence
How do we help athletes build confidence that isn't completely dependent on performance?
Explore athlete identity, confidence, mindset, self-awareness, mental well-being, comparison, pressure, and helping young women develop a stronger understanding of who they are beyond results.
Voice & Leadership
How do we create environments where female athletes learn to communicate, advocate and lead?
Explore communication, self-advocacy, leadership, influence, relationships, confidence, and how the adults around athletes can encourage them to recognize and use their voice.
College & What Comes Next
How do we prepare athletes for more than recruiting and the next level?
Explore college decisions, recruiting realities, athlete opportunities, personal brand and reputation, career exploration, and helping athletes think intentionally about the future beyond high school sports.
Virtual • September 22–24 • Free Registration
Supporting Her Doesn't Mean Having All the Answers.
You may see the confidence shift before anyone else does. You may be the person she talks to when she's frustrated with playing time, comparison, pressure, teammates, recruiting, or whether she even wants to keep playing.
And sometimes it's difficult to know whether to encourage, listen, push, step back, or ask a different question.
The Summit gives parents an opportunity to hear from athletes, coaches, leaders, and experts about what young women may be navigating—and consider new ways to approach those conversations at home.
Sometimes supporting her starts with understanding what the experience feels like from her side.
You Can't Address Every Part of Athlete Development During Practice.
Coaches and athletic directors carry enormous responsibility. You're managing teams, competition, schedules, performance, culture, expectations, families, and the realities of an athletic season.
At the same time, you may be the adult who notices when an athlete loses confidence, stops speaking up, struggles to belong, or begins questioning what her future looks like.
The Beyond The Athlete Summit is designed to be an additional resource—not another responsibility.
Use the conversations to:
- Bring new perspective back to your coaching staff
- Create better conversations with athletes
- Support parent education
- Strengthen whole-athlete development
- Identify topics your program may want to address more intentionally
- Give coaches additional language and resources around challenges they already see
You don't have to do all of this alone.
There Are Important Conversations We Don't Always Make Enough Time For.
Athletic Programs Already Spend Time On
- Performance
- Playing time
- Competition
- Schedules
- Statistics
- Recruiting
- Scholarships
- The next level
The Conversations We're Making More Room For
- Identity
- Confidence
- Mental well-being
- Belonging
- Communication
- Self-advocacy
- Leadership
- Opportunity
- Personal brand and reputation
- College realities
- Life beyond sport
The first group matters. But developing the whole athlete requires both.
Because preparing an athlete for her future means preparing for more than the next game.
The Way We Respond Can Shape the Way She Experiences Sport.
When a female athlete starts questioning whether she belongs in her sport, the reason may have very little to do with how much she loves the game.
It may be:
- Playing time.
- Comparison.
- A drop in confidence.
- Pressure.
- Team dynamics.
- Fear of disappointing someone.
- Or the feeling that if she isn't headed toward a scholarship or the next level, maybe there isn't a place for her anymore.
Those moments matter.
And so does the way the adults around her respond.
That's why these conversations aren't only athlete conversations. They're parent conversations. Coach conversations. Leadership conversations. School conversations.
The Summit exists to help more of us have them.
For the People Helping Shape the Female Athlete Experience
The Summit conversations are centered around female high school athletes. The Summit itself is designed for the adults and organizations supporting them.
Parents & Families
For parents who want more perspective on the pressures, transitions, questions, and experiences their daughters may be navigating through sport.
Coaches
For coaches who want to support athletes beyond physical and technical development while strengthening confidence, communication, leadership, resilience, and team culture.
Athletic Directors & School Leaders
For athletic administrators looking for additional resources and conversations around whole-athlete development within their programs.
Educators & Athlete Supporters
For counselors, teachers, mentors, trainers, and other adults helping young athletes develop inside and outside sport.
Clubs, Teams & Athlete Organizations
For organizations committed to creating stronger developmental environments for female athletes.
You don't have to be an expert in athlete development to attend. You simply have to care about how young women experience sport and who they are becoming through it.
Choose Your High School Summit Experience
Join us September 22–24 for three days of conversations centered around the female high school athlete experience and designed for the parents, coaches, athletic directors, educators, and athlete supporters helping guide them.
Register free for the core Summit or choose VIP All-Access for extended replay access and additional resources.
Free Summit Access
$0Everything you need to experience the core High School Summit.
- High School Summit session access
- Conversations with athletes, coaches, leaders, and experts
- Three days centered around whole-athlete development
- Access during the Summit event window
- Summit communications and updates
VIP All-Access Pass
$37More access. More time. More tools to put what you learn into action.
- Everything included with Free Summit Access
- 90-day session replay access
- Day 3 Live Closing Conversation
- Closing Conversation replay
- VIP workbook and resources
Ideal if your schedule makes it difficult to watch every session during the Summit, or if you want to revisit conversations later with your family, team, staff, or organization.
Not sure which option is right for you? Start with free Summit access. VIP is simply an optional way to extend the experience.
Get More Time With the Summit
Upgrade to VIP All-Access for $37 and receive 90-day replay access, the Live Closing Conversation, and additional Summit resources.
Creating More Conversations Around the Whole Athlete
The Beyond The Athlete Summit brings together leaders, athletes, coaches, experts, 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+
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The Athlete Experience Is About More Than What Happens During the Game.
Join us for three days of conversations about what female high school athletes are navigating beneath the surface—and how parents, coaches, educators, athletic leaders, and athlete supporters can better support who they're becoming.
Better understanding creates better conversations.
Better conversations create better support.
Beyond The Athlete High School Summit
September 22–24, 2026
Presented by Beyond Her Game + A.B.C. Sports Foundation