PRESS Christen

General
BUSINESS
In 2019 she co-founded Re-Inc, a gender-neutral clothing company based in Los Angeles, CA, United States of America. She established the company alongside fellow US women's national team members Megan Rapinoe, Tobin Heath and Meghan Klingenberg. (Twitter profile, 17 Jan 2020; re-website.com, 2019; fastcompany.com, 01 Jul 2019)

MENTOR
She has mentored young female entrepreneurs alongside business partners Meghan Klingenberg and Tobin Heath through Stacy's Rise Project in the United States of America. "It is not easy for female entrepreneurs to find mentorship because the space is not very full of women at the moment. A great way to start to change that is to support women in business. There's a ton of things that soccer has also prepared us for in business, and we can use some of those lessons as well as the early lessons from Re-Inc and share that with a group of amazing women who are deeply passionate about social change, that all have different experiences. I actually see it as sharing, learning as well as mentoring. And I think that two-way street of mentorship is really exciting." (insider.com, 24 Jul 2020; hauteliving.com, 16 Jul 2020)

MOVE TO SWEDEN
In 2012 she relocated to Sweden to play in the Damallsvenskan league, following the collapse of the Women's Professional Soccer [WPS] league in the United States of America and her omission from the US women's national team for that year's Olympic Games in London. She says the move helped to reignite her career and love of the sport. "I knew that I needed to get out of here [United States of America]. The American sports culture, I had completely lost my love of the game and had lost my way playing here. I thought I wasn't good enough. And when I went there, I had that freedom to play for myself, to learn soccer and reignite my passion. It was freezing cold, I had no idea what I was doing, I couldn't speak the language and it just gave me a fresh perspective on life." (usatoday.com, 12 Jun 2015)

In 2013 she became the first US player to win the Damallsvenskan Golden Boot award in Sweden. (usatoday.com, 12 Jun 2015)

In 2010 she became the first student to win the Top Drawer Soccer's Player of the Season award for two consecutive years. (gostanford.com, 14 Jan 2011)