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Jessica Mendoza

Profession : Journalist

Birth : November 11, 1980

As a mom, spending quality time on the water with my family is a simple and relaxing way to unplug.

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There is nothing more I want to do than impact girls.

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My dad was a baseball coach, and then I switched to softball. Baseball was all I knew until I crossed over. It never seemed like a big deal.

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The Olympic Games are the greatest sporting event in the world.

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I feel like so many girls are too intimidated to walk into their local Boys & Girls Club or YMCA - places that have equipment and offer a lot of opportunities to be active for little-to-no-money but are usually more boy-focused.

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I never realized how hurtful people can be. They hate me so much for being a female in a men's sport. And I'm just like, 'Really? It's 2016, people. Women can do anything.'

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Everyone's got advice, everyone's got their two cents. Try to streamline, like, who are the people that I trust the most? Sometimes I call it my board of directors. They're going to challenge you, but they're also going to support you. They're not going to just tell you what you want to hear, either.

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My older son, when things were at the peak of attention, comes up to me and says: 'Mom, I know people are saying you're doing stuff that's cool. But I listened, and all you did was talk. It was pretty boring.' Thanks for that.

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For Jennie Finch, she's a stud on the field and everyone's going to love her while she's playing, but no one is going to forget her because of the person that she is. That is what she has over almost any other person that's at the top of their sport.

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Well, my mom actually taught me how to fish. We used to go when I was little, like 5 or 6 years old.

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I always said this as an athlete, 'Practice like you're the worst player on the field. Play like you're the best.'

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I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.

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I found that I can never know enough, and that many times the best form of education is through communication.

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Own your differences and don't always try to fit in. The more unique you are, the more you stand out.

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In a perfect world, if I can get conversations done at a batting cage, there's exactly the place I want to be.

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I'm a jock.

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I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

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I grew up in a big Mexican family and... we always were so comfortable in our own skin. So society, the stuff that I think we see a lot now for young girls, didn't really reach me because I had this huge Mexican bubble around me saying, 'You're beautiful. You're amazing. You're strong. And be you.'

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We see women on the field; we see them interviewing players, we see them coming out of the dugout. But if you put them in the booth - like, hold up, wait a second - you haven't been there before. This is different.

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I got my masters in social sciences and education at Stanford, and initially - this is back in 2002 or 2003 when I graduated - I wanted to move to D.C. and work on education reform, specifically with No Child Left Behind.

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