“What was it like playing for the Aviators?”

“How difficult was it to be a woman on a men’s professional team?”

“Are you going to tryout for the 2019 Aviators Season?”

We’ve been asked variations of these questions more times than we can count — hundreds at this point. And each time, we’ve taken it in stride. Lightly stating, “That’s a complicated question. There are many factors at play. I enjoyed it but…” Silently gauging, “How much time do we have to get into this? How much do they really want to know? How much will they understand?”

With the 2019 Aviators season quickly approaching, we’ve decided to share our experiences (both positive and negative) and to answer the questions we’ve been asked so many times.

In order to do so, we’ve broken down our time with the Aviators into a list of pros and cons that vary from specific moments in time to general feelings of success and struggle.

It is our hope that this account of our experiences will spark change for the experiences of all women in our sport — in every league, on every field.

Before we get into the details though, we’d like to note that this is not an all-inclusive report of the season, but rather an account of our own experiences— and in this, we have ‘best perspective.’