TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – Topeka native Jill Monaghan, who helped lead design oversight for CPKC Stadium, is one of 26 women featured in the #IfThenSheCan Game Changers exhibit at the FIFA Fan Festival in Dallas.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to have a physical statue with 25 other women across sports and science and business and tech and media who are helping to shape the future and showing up as examples,\u201d Monaghan told 13 SPORTS.<\/p>\n
CPKC Stadium opening in 2024 as the home of the NWSL\u2019s Kansas City Current. The stadium was the first to be built primarily for a women\u2019s sports team.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do we weave space together? Also thinking about the players, and coaching staff, and performance and training staff and what that experience is like for them from when they leave their car to the training pitch and back,\u201d Monaghan said.<\/p>\n
Monaghan was born and raised in Topeka and graduated from Washburn Rural High School.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had an amazing public school education [in Topeka]. A lot of the foundation and the access that I had to technology,\u201d Monaghan said.<\/p>\n
Now her accomplishments will be on display in Dallas through July 19.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf this statue can spark one conversation for a young person who\u2019s maybe thinking what does an architect do, or what does she do, or how did she get into that? Then it\u2019s doing exactly what it\u2019s supposed to do,\u201d Monaghan said. <\/p>\n
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