DFW Women in sports: Odessa Jenkins celebrates women in the coming generations in football to meet football

The possibility that young girls grow up to play a professional tackle football is the vision that Odessa Jenkins had in mind when she founded the women's football conference of women (WNFC).

“The perfect picture for me is that investors, fans and brands see all women who play the Tackle football, so valuable that they are ready to take all the risk that they are with men and boy football,” said Jenkins.

The once entry -level teenager from South Central Los Angeles has campaigned for women to be on the rust because she remembers the moments when she felt that there was no place for her.

“The boys grew up and my trainer said: 'You will be killed here. You really have to think about playing a sport that play the girls'” “

As an eighth grader, the council was difficult to hear about something else, but Jenkins was exposed to a different kind of difficulties in her personal life.

“My oldest brother Ricardo was murdered in 1991 due to gang violence and it changed my family's trajectory. I was 11 years old. I just didn't understand how someone could take someone away from me.”

Jenkins describes that he grows up in South Central Los Angele's death, destruction and violence, but sport has directed her pain.

“That let me fall deeper into the sport and contact me with other people. I think it did the same for my family.”

Her natural sporting ability led her to the basketball court, where she excelled and received a scholarship from Division I.

“In the end I got a college scholarship from Division I, ideally it was a really good time for an athlete. For me I always missed football.”

After completing and entering the workforce, the California, born in California, moved to Dallas, where it was restored with the game she loved.

“On the second day I was here, I googled women's football and opened a world that I never knew about it.”

In the next 10 years Jenkins played with a few different leagues, showed back as a top running, stacked gold medals and won six national championships.

“That was the type of climax of my career. I won a Natty, I won a world championship title and came back to Dallas, and people said:” What, women's football. “Nobody knew who we were.”

There were some of the best moments in the Tackle football of women who never saw the world. There was no camera, no streaming and no real reporting that motivated Jenkins to change through the creation of the WNFC.

“When we started, there were no sponsors of women in global sport.

Jenkins spent over the past five years to accelerate and strengthen women in their sport, and it paid off.

“We are in a multi -year agreement with Adidas. We have just been sponsored by Dove. We now have a five -year agreement with Victory Plus, the same partner as The Dallas Stars, the same partners as Texas Rangers.”

A brand that continues to grow and remains authentic.

“It is the kind of things you want for your child, your aunt, right? I want my girls to know that everything, nothing, but everything is possible for them.”