"As an athlete who chose to start a family at the height of my professional career, I know how hard it is to navigate pregnancy, a postpartum body, and all of the challenges that come with being a new mom. I believe in more education and opportunity for women in sport. As female athletes, our peak playing years often overlap with our childbearing years. We shouldn't have to compromise family or career when we have the right resources and support. More than anything, I want my daughter and her generation to have family planning options and job security if and when they choose motherhood."

"My hope is that the next generation of women athletes have the freedom and power to chase their dreams on their own terms."

“As a female athlete one of the biggest stressors during my career was family planning and navigating the overlap between peak years of performance and childbearing. I wondered how long my window was for each, and which of the limited amount of opportunities I should give up in order to make sure I didn’t “run out of time”. I wish for women athletes to have more readily available guidance and resources around this issue and hope for more conversations, options, role models and less tension felt between these two amazing things your body can do.”

“My hope is for female athletes to not feel like they are going into uncharted territory when they decide to start a family and continue their athletic career. I look forward to continued growth in resources and support to help guide athletes into motherhood and continuing to compete at the highest levels to make the transitions as supported as possible in an already challenging transition.”

“Today we are seeing women’s sports transcend into new levels. We aren’t where we should be, but we are starting to move in the right direction and I hope we continue the conversations/open dialogue of family planning for women while competing at the highest levels.”

"This initiative matters to me because it gives me the freedom and flexibility to pursue what matters most to me, my career as a professional volleyball player and having a family. I now have the ability to reach my fullest potential as an athlete without worrying if I will miss my opportunity to have a family. Because of this, I will forever be grateful to Cofertility for allowing me to choose both."

"I want present and future generations of female athletes to have more power in choosing how their future looks, on their terms."

"I retired from competitive running in 2012 because I didn’t see a way that I could fulfill my dreams of being an athlete and a mom. After six years of difficulty conceiving and three miscarriages, what mattered most to me in the world was having healthy children, and they are everything to me now. I never imagined one day I could have it all: healthy children and a return to the Olympics with them cheering at the finish line. There is still not enough resources, support, information and funds available for women trying to navigate both worlds but hopefully this will continue to improve and we will no longer have to decide between two of the most important parts of our lives: our dreams of athletics and our dreams of parenting."

"As a professional athlete, I wish I had access to resources like these earlier in my career. It wasn’t until Allyson Felix brought attention to fertility and family planning at a Team USA meeting that I realized how overlooked these issues were. This campaign matters because no woman should have to choose between her career and her future family—and now, athletes and professionals alike have the support they deserve."

“There are so many things I know now that I wish I knew while I was an athletes regarding women's fertility."

"Female athletes are often left in the dark when it comes to their choices outside of their sports. The next generation of women deserves to be educated on their decisions for fertility and family planning."

"Pro female athletes shouldn’t have to choose between their career and starting a family. Our male counterparts certainly don’t have to make this choice. I want to be part of building a future in which female athletes’ careers can be as long and successful as possible… and certainly not limited by lack of reproductive choices. If athletes have access to education and family planning options starting from an early stage, I see the potential for women in sports to play freer, harder, and longer in their sport. This future—one in which female athletes’ careers can be as long and successful as possible—is what I dream of building for my children."

"While choosing to be an athlete is easy, choosing to become an athlete who is also a mom is full of complex challenges. Navigating my sport while working through three miscarriages and now with a beautiful baby has been at times lonely, upsetting, depressing, and also full of joy, insight, and optimism. The availability of support, information, and choice makes balancing athleticism and motherhood easier and more enjoyable."

"I am a queer woman of color and athlete and having a son has been the biggest joy of my life, and the hardest thing in the world. I am so lucky my co-parent and I were able to access fertility treatments – and yet many parents don’t have this privilege. When you add in the immense scrutiny athletes’ bodies are under with the lack of support for parents especially queer parents - it all feels impossible. All athletes playing in women’s sports deserve to choose parenthood without feeling like we have to sacrifice our athletic careers – our dreams, that we’ve hoped and worked for. Our dreams of having families and our athletic careers should not be mutually exclusive."

"I wish there had been more education (and studies, really) around how fertility can be affected after years of endurance sports. I also wish there was a destigmatization of visiting a fertility clinic. It's not a last resort, it's important to visit and gain knowledge of your body and your situation to be empowered for future decision making!"

"Any woman that wants to become a mother should be given every chance to make it happen. Women are incredible- we're capable of balancing a career, athletics, and having a family, but oftentimes our chance to 'have it all' is taken away from us due to timing. All we need are resources and we can make that dream happen."

"Family planning was never part of the conversation when I trained with Team Canada. When the 2020 Olympics were postponed, I found myself facing the difficult choice of delaying my dreams of starting a family. It took strength to take time away from training to freeze my eggs, and it shouldn’t have been that hard. Every woman deserves the freedom to plan her family without sacrificing her career. No one should have to fight for that."