Sun FC forward Madi Parson trades finance career for soccer field

The Brief

  • For Tampa Bay Sun FC forward Madi Parsons, soccer was her first love but not her first career.
  • After college, Parsons worked for three years as a financial advisor before switching careers to professional soccer.
  • With little college highlights to help, Parsons joined a men’s Sunday soccer league to prepare for her professional tryout.

TAMPA, Fla. Every time Madi Parsons steps onto a soccer pitch, she is already living her dream.

“Every single day I’m just in awe that this is the life I get to live,” Parson said.

In awe at her life because it wasn’t long ago that the Tampa Bay Sun forward’s life was on a very different path.

“I was working for a financial advisor for three years before making the career change of my life,” Parsons said.

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