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. …