“It’s meant the world to me,” Yanez said of her time with the club. “A 26-year-old comes in and is trying to make an impact. To have a club be interested in me, invest in me and believe in me? To have them care for me and support me? It means the world.”

Yanez continued, “I’m very grateful. I don’t think I could tell you how grateful I was. You’d just hear it a million times because that’s truly how I feel to have had the opportunity to play for a club for six seasons and growing with the club. The club is always trying to make sure it can provide everything for its players that it has the opportunity to provide. I’ve always respected that about this club and I’ve always seen it as a club where people want to be. For me, it says a lot about the club and what they value. I’m very grateful that I got to spend six seasons here and to grow as a player and person and fall in love with the city. I’ve made so many friends that I’ll keep for a lifetime. This is a very exciting new chapter for me, but it’s also an emotional one to close because I cared and loved what I did so much. I’m so grateful to be able to choose when I step away. A lot of players don’t get to do that. My family and I will always be Reign fans for the rest of our lives.”