Lionesses legend Ellen White recently came to UCFB and spoke about how great it was to see so many young female students following their dream to have a career in sport.<\/p>\n
Ellen, who is England women\u2019s all-time top goalscorer, visited UCFB Manchester<\/a> and offered advice and guidance to the students wanting that role in the football and sports industry.<\/p>\n During her talk, she spoke about how she sees not only women\u2019s sports, but equality across all sports, growing in the coming years, and female UCFB students being a big part of that on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like having female role models,\u201d she said, \u201cbeing able to see it and believe it and being like, \u2018Oh, I can do that. I can be a female working in sport. I can have that role. I can be inspiring. I can work alongside men as well.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not just a male-dominated role, there is space for women, and it\u2019s an important space to obviously have women involved as well.<\/p>\n \u201cSo having that equality and those opportunities has been amazing to see. And it\u2019s great to hear more uptake of females within those degrees as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Ellen then offered advice for young women wanting a career in sport.<\/p>\n She added: \u201cI feel like in any job, it\u2019s going to be roller coasters. There\u2019s going to be ups and downs. And I feel like might not quite work out with you one way.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s another direction. There\u2019s another way. Maybe there\u2019s a bump in the road, but just keep going.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s frustrating that, we do have to bang on those doors and smash those ceilings. But I feel like more women doing that, and seeing more women that are in top roles or are thriving in women\u2019s sport, I think it\u2019s so inspiring.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd also having a lot of male allies as well, men supporting women as well and being like, \u2018No, we need the collective to help obviously grow our sport grow our industry.\u2019 I think it\u2019s really important.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I\u2019d say just absolutely go for it. You might be outside your comfort zone, but you\u2019re needed, you\u2019re inspiring, you bring something different: hard work, desire and love for what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n \u201cHopefully, you know, you could be up there, you know, inspiring more women in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n UCFB students gain access to many guest speakers from across football and sport thanks to our dedicated Employability and Career Planning Team<\/a>. Learn more about them and the experiences and opportunities they offer our students.<\/p>\n