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Our 2026 Campaign · 100,000 Girls

Seen.
Strong.

We make her visible. Twenty-five years of assessment-first training compressed into a single national campaign. Free phone-based movement screening for youth female athletes during the FIFA World Cup 2026 window. One mission: keep girls in the game.

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Why this campaign exists

Thousands of girls are getting hurt. Most of these injuries could be prevented. None of them can be prevented in the dark.

Every year, tens of thousands of young female athletes tear an ACL. The injury ends their season, often interrupts their school career, sometimes ends their relationship with sport entirely. The pain is private. The aftermath is not.

And most of these injuries are not unlucky. The body sends signals months before it breaks — asymmetries, overload, mechanics that quietly drift out of tolerance. The patterns are visible. They are measurable. They are modifiable. The only reason the injury happens anyway is that nobody is looking.

Seen. Strong. is about making her visible. Making her pain, and her needs, a priority — not a footnote in someone else's plan. Putting the data in her hands so she can see what her body is telling her, and make the decisions that come from sight rather than guesswork.

The thesis

You cannot train what you don't measure.

It is a simple scientific fact. Without the data, there is no way to measure risk. No way to measure progress. No way to measure improvement. No common language between the athlete, the coach, the parent, the trainer, the physical therapist.

The conventional answers to this epidemic — prescribe neuromuscular training to every child, train every coach in proper warm-up technique — are not wrong, but they are not going to happen. They have not happened in twenty years of trying. They miss the point, which is upstream of all of them.

Data is the first step in being seen. With it in her hands, she can begin the process of better decisions. Move with strength toward injury prevention. Move with strength toward performance. Move with the people around her — coach, parent, trainer, provider — pointing in the same direction because they are finally looking at the same picture.

That is the everyday athlete promise. We are the glue that connects her to herself, and to the stakeholders around her — parents, coaches, athletic directors, club managers, heads of school, club founders — so the decisions about her body are made in the light.
The scope

The numbers behind the story.

Context for the work, not the reason for it.

250K
ACL tears per year in the United States, across youth and adult sports.
2–8×
The risk multiplier for female athletes compared to males in the same sport.
1 in 5
High school coaches who report running the neuromuscular training programs known to reduce risk.

Neuromuscular and movement-quality programs reduce the rate of these injuries by up to 61 percent in published studies. The reason it has not moved at the population level is not that the science is missing. It is that the screening is missing — and without the screen, the rest of the system cannot act.

Method

Three steps. Ten minutes. On her phone.

Step 01

Sign up

Parent fills out a short consent form. Your daughter receives a link to her secure screening on her phone.

Step 02

Record

Two to four guided movements, captured on her phone camera. The on-screen prompts walk her through it. About 5 to 10 minutes.

Step 03

Receive results

A clear, parent-friendly report. A movement-quality score, the patterns that matter, and a free prevention program — whatever the result.

The coalition

This fight is bigger than any one program.

everyday athlete and better athlete are joining a national coalition that has been working on this issue for years. The science is settled. The barrier is implementation. We are the measurement layer that makes prevention accountable.

National ACL Injury Coalition Aspen Institute Project Play Hospital for Special Surgery US Youth Soccer Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe

Seen. Strong. is operated by Better Athlete in partnership with mission-aligned youth-sport, clinical, and athletic-trainer organizations across the United States.

Be part of it

Two ways to step in.

Captains

Players who lived it.

Pro and elite athletes who came back from injury and want their voice to reach the girl behind them. Sixty seconds of story. One post per quarter. One event per year.

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Allies

Partners and sponsors.

Sports medicine providers, brand sponsors, technology and data partners. The screening is free for every girl. The campaign is funded by the people who want to keep girls in the game.

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Take Action

The campaign lives at seenstrong.com.

Sign up your daughter, register your team, become a captain, become an ally, or follow the campaign as it unfolds during the FIFA World Cup 2026 window.

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