About Stronger. Faster. Fueled.
A movement that couldn’t end with just one event
At 18 years old, I was preparing to continue my athletic career at Yale University.
From the outside, everything looked like it was moving in the right direction. But behind the scenes, I had experienced something that far too many female athletes face and far too few understand called RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport) and LEA (Low Energy Availability).
That experience changed the way I viewed training, performance, recovery, and health.
More importantly, it opened my eyes to a much bigger problem.
Many female athletes are expected to perform at a high level without ever being taught the fundamentals of female physiology, menstrual health, fueling, recovery, or long-term performance. Critical conversations are often overlooked, misunderstood, or avoided altogether.
The more I learned, the more I realized I wasn’t alone. And just then, an opportunity to address the silence and lack of education around energy deficiencies in women’s sports presented itself.
From a Research Project to a Mission
As part of my capstone statistics project, with a teacher mentor who truly changed my life, I decided to study the issue more deeply.
What began as a class project evolved into a 40-page research thesis focused on female athlete health, performance, and education.
The deeper I went into the research, the more obvious the gap became.
There was incredible expertise available from physicians, sports dietitians, researchers, coaches, and elite athletes—but much of that knowledge wasn’t reaching the people who needed it most.
So I decided to do something about it.
The Event That Changed Everything
I organized a community event focused on female athlete health and performance.
The goal was simple:
Bring the right people into the same room and start the conversations that needed to happen.
The event brought together physicians, sports nutritionists, professional athletes, coaches, parents, and athletes for an evening dedicated to topics like RED-S, menstrual health, fueling, recovery, and long-term performance.
The speakers represented years of experience in medicine, nutrition, research, coaching, and elite sport. Their willingness to share their knowledge created an environment that was educational, honest, and deeply impactful.
And the impact was measurable.
Post-event surveys showed statistically significant improvements in knowledge across nearly every area measured, along with increased prioritization of menstrual health among attendees.
As a statistics student, seeing measurable change was incredibly rewarding.
But the numbers weren’t the only thing that stayed with me.
The moment
After the event ended, people stayed behind to talk.Young girls shared that the conversations had changed how they viewed their health and performance.Women of different ages spoke about experiences they had never felt comfortable discussing openly.Coaches, parents, and healthcare professionals emphasized how important these conversations were for the athletes they support every day. They wanted the event recording so they could rewatch it with daughters, athletes, and fellow coaches.Again and again, I heard the same message:We need more of this.At the same time, I found myself inspired by the people who had helped make the event possible.The physicians. The sports dietitians. The professional athletes. The coaches. The audience members who showed up because they cared.This had become something much larger than a research project.It had become a community.And standing there at the end of the night, one thing became clear:The event could not be the finish line.
The need was too great.The conversations were too important.The momentum was too powerful to let disappear when everyone went home.Why Stronger. Faster. Fueled. Exists
S.F. F. was created to continue the conversation from that night.
Its mission is simple:
To make female athlete health, performance, and education impossible to ignore.
Through science, storytelling, expert insights, events, partnerships, and community, S.F.F. exists to help athletes better understand their bodies, advocate for their health, and reach their potential.
This is not just about sport.
It’s about giving female athletes access to the information, resources, and support they deserve.
The conversation is evolving.
The research is evolving.
The community is growing.
And this is only the beginning.
