This project was a dream of ours for so long, and we’re so grateful to everyone who got it off the ground and turned it into this baller collection. Thank you to Alice Sutherland-Hawes, Patricia Nelson, and Chloe Seager for finding it a home, and to our editor, Rachel Diebel, for making that home at Feiwel & Friends such a perfect one.
Of course this collection wouldn’t be a collection without the incredible writers who gave us these stories—huge thanks to Carrie, Sara, Juliana, Maggie, Leah, Sarah, Naomi, Miranda, Yamile, Cam, Marieke, Amparo, Aminah, and Kayla for giving us these girls who kick so much ass.
Thank you so much to Andi Poretta and L. Whitt for this incredible cover (front and back!), and to Dawn Ryan, Arik Harden, Kim Waymer, Chandra Wohleber, Jennifer Sale, Kelly Markus, and Avia Perez for getting this book in tip-top shape. Huge thanks, too, to the whole sales team for all your work, including Natalia Becerra, Jennifer Edwards, and Rebecca Schmidt, and of course to Jennifer Besser and Jean Feiwel for welcoming our book into F&F.
And to our one-time teammates, fellow sports staff, the girls we’ve coached, and all the female athletes who’ve paved the way, this one’s for you.