Coach Jackie
Appearances
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Why should you watch women's sports? And I'm done with that question. I think it is. We paint ourselves like a charity case when we convince people that we're worthwhile.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
I don't know. I don't know. I just made one recently about the Boston Marathon, and that was really fun. I like those bigger stories that... I can kind of take what's the moment of the day and get really specific with it. And like one person's specific story always is like really special to me.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Yeah, I mean, it's such a strange thing. I just started Instagram. So now I'm like a lot more people are on Instagram and TikTok, like of the athletes, I feel like. Like Megan Rapinoe just followed me over March Madness. And I was like, Abby Wambach just followed me. Same time, like with this whole, she followed me because of a rock climbing video. It tells you on Instagram why they follow you.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
And I'm like, all right, love it. I've made soccer stuff before, but love that. Oh my gosh. Okay, Abby loving the rock climbing. Good to know. but yeah Sydney was the first ever person that I grew up loving that noticed who I was like and it was the coolest thing that's still to this day I think about that like I was like I've made it when she followed me Yeah.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
I'm like, oh my God, it's Sydney Allure. I texted my high school bestie who we always watch soccer together and we were freaking out. So that was really cool.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
I just love... I know this is like, you're real here, but Sydney has truly always been so real. And I think that there is more of a movement now for athletes to really share so much of their lives. But back then, I'm talking 2015 era, that wasn't a thing. And she was doing that. And I...
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
truly remember thinking like it was just the coolest and like so impressive that she was so like just communicative with the fans about her life and still to this day obviously so I yeah I love that okay well you stole what I was going to say but
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Oh my goodness, you nailed it. I feel like absolutely you win the trophy for us remarks there.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
I think women's lacrosse is just such, it is so fun. They just had their like the women's lacrosse league. So this is a funny kind of story. So they were in the DMV area and that's where I am. And they had their first big tournament with a professional now women's lacrosse league. And there was a huge snowstorm and it was really hard to get there.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
And my girlfriend and I were like, we got to go like, this is going to be so much fun. We got to go. So we like,
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
uber i don't have a car i live in the city like uber 40 minutes out of town in the middle of the snow storm in the snow and the guy like the guys at the radio on the radio is just like so just don't be and like names the road and it's exactly the road we're on like it was just awful and um we get there and there's not that many people there because of the snow but
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
And they had this song that they had written for the Women's Lacrosse League. And it's sponsored by Maybelline. And it was, Maybelline Women's Lacrosse League. And they just kept playing it. But there were this group of little girls who had grown up watching Maryland lacrosse. And there were a lot of former Maryland college players who were playing. And they just were so excited.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
And it was just like there were probably seven of them watching.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
loudest people there over the song whatever and truly I didn't know anything about lacrosse and just watching them watch it I learned from them when they were they were cheering I was cheering like it was just the the coolest moment and I think they're doing really cool stuff the women's lacrosse uh college tournament is happening right now um yeah that's just something I find that's just so much fun I really like it
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Not really, no. I've learned my lesson there. I don't think that I've ever actually really made a response. I think I made a response one time when people were saying I was outing people and I was like, I'm not. And then people still will say, I don't know, they just like...
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
I think that I had to remind myself that a lot of that, that kind of hate, if you want to call it that, I don't think I'm like the big enough to be getting hate, but like, uh, it's not anybody who knows my content. Like anybody who's watching it understands it and that's fine.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
And anybody who has some of the more negative connotations with it, that's, I can sit with that and be fine with it because I know they're not really watching it. And I always just tell myself, you know, the, the, the people that, that mind aren't, you know, the people that mind don't matter. People that matter don't mind, but like, I also... don't matter.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
It's just that they're minding about something they don't necessarily know the full picture of. And so it's just hard for me when it comes from the queer community. I want every gay person in the world to think that I'm cool and fun and awesome. And when straight men always say, they always are being the worst in my conversation.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
I make content that's about gay women all the time and just women's sports in general. I could not care less. That is like water off a duck's back. I don't even care. I honestly think it's kind of funny. But when another queer person has a comment, then I start to be like, I want to say something and I tell myself, just keep it in.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Oh, yeah. I'm not that creative. I wouldn't be doing all that. Like, I wouldn't do it well enough. I'd be like, hey, that was mean and I'm sad now. So what's up with that? Like, it wouldn't be good.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
I think it's gotta be, I was at the championship game, March Madness, like national championship and watching Paige get her win. Like it's the storyline was written, the script was done, like she needed it. And I grew up in Clubby, South Carolina.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
I love South Carolina, but going into that, and I actually, this is the best part of it, is that I, my best friend from high school, Audrey, played D1 college basketball, and her team actually made it to March Madness, like they were in the first four games, and they unfortunately lost. Yeah. But High Point was where she played just last year and they lost.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
But because of that, she was free for the first time ever to go on one of these trips with me. And I was like, do you want to go to March Madness? We're going. It's a whole thing. We're going to get courtside seats, like all this stuff. And this is what I love about sports. It's not about really the moments and more just about the connections and the storylines.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
And that time, the story was really for me that Audrey was the first women's basketball player I ever was like,
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
like looking up to really truly like as a friend and then also I remember when we were eighth grade and she was like there's this girl named Paige who's our age and she's awesome oh my gosh so she's the one that got me I would never have known anything about women's basketball if it wasn't for Audrey and so to be able to go to the national game with her and sit next to her courtside and watch her watch Paige win like truly that is one of my favorite actually it might be my favorite moments in this whole kind of thing I've been doing it was awesome
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
See, Audrey might be the person that would clap back. See, like we have similar. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Not really. I mean, I do get a lot of invites, but it's always very last minute. And I can't really plan much. You know, like I just kind of last minute get an email and I'm like, okay, I guess I'm going. And like I said, I like have a job. And so I have to be like, can I get time off? And they're like, of course, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. That was like two years ago.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
That's the best part of the sports, like truly. It's the history. It's constantly witnessing the changes in the history and all of it. And I'm late to the game, you know?
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
I always say, I just watched recently somebody at a women's sports event asking people like, you know, why should you watch women's sports? And I'm done with that question. I think it is, we paint ourselves like a charity case when we convince people that we're worthwhile.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
And I think that this new era, and you know, I always struggle with the language because I think that, I think back to the 99ers as like, that was the moment that the spark lit for me as a kid.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Yeah. But like, that's when I was little, I always knew that was the thing that started it, you know? And, um, so it's always been a thing, but of course it's spiraling now and it's becoming so much bigger. We have to stop proving ourselves. We just have, the product is so good. You turn on an NWSL game, you turn on a WMB game, you turn on a women's world class, whatever. it's awesome.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
It's so much fun. And that's what I'm always saying. I'm like, don't ask me why just, I just, cause you like it, you know? And, and, um, so I think that normal for me, isn't the win. I think that cause normal, what does normal mean in sports? It means men's sports. Yeah. It means being on par with what the men are doing. And that is never a goal.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
You know, I don't think that's when women's sports wins. And that's a huge misconception that women's sports is just constantly running and trying to get to where men's sports and trying to do the same things men's sports has done. I don't know if you've tuned into any men's sports lately. They're not the best.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Like the standards aren't great, you know, for what they stand for with their players and the community around the sports can be kind of toxic. Why are we striving for that? We don't need to be like that. And so... Just trying to be not normal, but like the best woman sports we can be. Because normalcy, we're past that, I think. Like it's a different product and the product is better.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Oh, yeah. It's awesome. I think that's so exciting. And it's just like the talent is there. And so it's just going to be competitive. I think that's what's exciting about it. And it won't just be like, you know, the way that women's soccer is right now. It used to be that there were like three or four teams. You're like, all right, probably one of those. I think that's expanded.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
And so that makes sense to expand the whole pool with it.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Allie Riley, Ally Riley, more like.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Oh my goodness. I'm so excited to be here. And the honor is all mine. I literally freaked out when I got the email. I was like, yes, this is awesome. So yeah, love it.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Can I ask a question that maybe is a sidebar, but like when it comes to the purse strings for a world cup as players, you only have your country's federation that you kind of can have some say in with FIFA itself. How do you fight for it? Like, is it just, you know, do you have anybody that goes from your federation to FIFA or like, how does that work?
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
yeah that's so important it's it's it's that follow-through that's so important though too which is i know the hardest part but i think a lot of people find that really interesting because it's a really complicated thing and people think like oh you just play better or you just uh when they protest or whatever what is that doing but like there are these actual unions set up that are supposed to work you know so yeah it's important i do have a fan question and i was wondering if maybe you could help me answer this question yeah are you down okay
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Interesting. Interesting.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
God, I was a film major. I was in the school of theater. So very much not sports oriented. But I will say as a sneaky backdoor sports thing, if you do want to be a media person, the film school, we were tight with a lot of the athletes because you go and you film. A lot of my friends, I didn't do it because I wasn't a camera operator like that.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
But my friends who were travel with the team and make their content and got close with a lot of the athletes. And So that's kind of interesting. There's like a nice intersection between the arts and sports and a lot of bigger schools. I went to LSU, so like a big Southern kind of school like that has a lot of teams that need a lot of coverage.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
If you're not into that, I know there's kind of like... There's, I don't know what it's called, but you can go and you can learn how to like be organized, like management, like sports management is a major. Yeah, sports management. We got there. Sounds familiar. We got there, sports management.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
But also if you're, you know, want to go to school and you want to, you don't want to play soccer as like an athlete, athlete. I was on a club rowing team in college and that's how I made all my friends. Whoa. I would have done club soccer, but it was COVID. And so the soccer team wasn't going, but the rowing team was. We rode with masks. It was very interesting.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
That's really hard. In the Louisiana swamp, not really on a river either. Like, yeah, it's crazy. But join a club soccer team, you know, and that's club sports in college. And if you don't want to do club, you can always do intramural. But generally, just join any sport in college that's low stakes. It's such, such, such a good way to make friends. It's the best.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Oh, these are all great questions. It came from, I went to LSU. So I was a senior at LSU when we were, it was the Marsh Madness that we were going to win. And I was watching it really intensely. And I was watching it with my, I bought ESPN Plus. I hadn't had it before. I was like, we have to watch all the games.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
And a quick Stanford name drop too will always be helpful. Just do whatever you love and then you'll have fun. And college is just about learning how to learn.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Yeah, so you can usually find me if you look up Coach Jackie, but the handle is at jcubedhacks, J-C-U-B-E-D-H-A-X. It's my rap name.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
My middle name starts with a J. My last name starts with a J. So J cubed. And then my, I had J cube Jack's as like a profile for like other, I think I made a singing account on TikTok. That's J cube Jack. So you can find that with me in high school singing with a ukulele in my bathroom. And I needed a new account. So I added an H and here we are.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
I cannot believe that I was here. This is the coolest ever.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Right. And so we're watching, we're watching an Iowa game, Lisa Bluter's coaching. And I said to her, do you think that she's gay? And she's like, I don't know the haircut. I don't know.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
We kind of went back and forth and we did what the video is are now where we kind of broke down the different components of her outfit and how she was acting and kind of started to get the sense of she was gay or not. And so I was at the time I was making videos kind of just lesbian TikTok space videos. And I made a video every day for about a year up until then, that point.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
So I was like, all right, the video today is going to be, is she gay or does she just coach women's basketball? And that one didn't go viral. It like got like, I think 60,000 views or something when it first went up.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Well, I was at the time pretty good. And then I made a second one. And then I made one about Kim Mulkey, of course. And that one is when it really just took off because Kim Mulkey... is such a character. And it was awesome. It was so cool. And I had people following me, not just, I had all these queer followers already, you know, but then also through the sports world.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
And then also at the same time, my favorite team is winning. Like everything was just coming together. And then, yeah, and now I still do it. I had done it for, I did one for you, I think once before the world cup.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Um, yeah, I do it for soccer. I do it for lots of different things. But I've, every time I bring it back from March Madness, I have new fans who find it. And then they're like, you should do one about soccer. You should do one about this. I'm like, guys, I've done it about everything. There's not been a sport I haven't done Is She Gay for, but I appreciate it.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
life i well first of all you are a gay icon gay ally riley ally riley more like um no but it's so true oh and i it was so i played soccer my whole life i was not really a basketball person i've always been a soccer person and so when i had this kind of All of a sudden, this kind of more sports following, and it was thought to be the World Cup. Right off that, 2023 March Madness was the World Cup.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
I was like, this is perfect. I know about women's soccer. I've been following. It's my favorite thing ever. Like, it's my special interest is women's sports, you know, women's soccer. And so it was so easy to, like... I obviously already knew about you. And then, you know, standing up for what's right and all these different things, I was like, oh, this is perfect.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Like, I don't have to, in other sports, sometimes I have to find the characters I want to highlight and things like that. And for the World Cup, I already knew. I'm like, got to make a video. I'm like, Riley, people got to know about her. Like, it's awesome. And then you saw it. And I was like, that's Sydney too? It's the craziest thing.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Yeah. I think that, like, I am not the kind of person that's trying to erase women's from anything. The World Cup, I am kind of because it's the year, right? Like, it's the year is different. So it's the 20, you know, whatever, 2026 World Cup. It's going to be different from the 2027 World Cup. There's not two happening at the same time.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
I'm a big fan of adding men's. So, like, it's going to be the NBA. Exactly. It's going to be the MNBA. And to be perfectly clear, whenever I say MNBA, people are always like, that's hilarious. I'm not joking. That's not funny. Like I'm just, that's what it should be. Like when you're on your TV and you see like, this is what gets me the most is just the small things like the TV.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
And you're like, it'll be like college basketball. And then it'll say women's college basketball. And it's like,
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
doing it doesn't make any sense and I don't want to erase women's from anything but it's just kind of like all of the men's leagues have these big words like the MLB isn't like men's baseball it's major league baseball you know and there's not a women's league that really just has like an awesome superlative for their league description you know
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
right and when people get so mad when you say men's whatever it's like imagine that all the time and also just in that's just a representative like conversations like i'm sure you're way more aware than i am of like you bring up you google uh all the time i'm such in a woman's sports bubble i don't think about men's sports literally at all and i'll google like arsenal score and i'm like wait that doesn't make sense and then it's obviously the men's team first and i'm like no i
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Yeah, sure. I got you. Okay, so I think that the tank top inherently, especially with the kind of more basketball lining on the outside, is gay. The font is straight. Your hair, the placement of the bun is...
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
hmm see there's like a thing but masked lesbians love a bun like they can masked lesbians before the haircut will like really do a bun for a long time oh okay right okay i'm learning this one is like it's not messy enough to be a masked lesbian bun so it's straight okay okay and then ballerina ballerina bun yeah how many necklaces do you have on i have on three okay or honestly it's like bisexual three three necklaces okay okay three and then yeah
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Okay. So I just did someone over the weekend that had a watch and a whoop. And I now know what a whoop is. I now know that somebody can... I was like, two watches. It doesn't get any gayer than that. Lesbians are early. Gay men, I feel like, are always late. These are the stereotypes. Yeah. The whoop is, I don't know, straight.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
I think that if you have the whoop and the watch on the same wrist, that would be a power move. That would be very gay.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
But you have tattoos.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Yeah. Yeah. This is really good podcast material. The visual description of what you are.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
love love it's and I I want to be clear two things one is like I think there's a misconception when I do these videos that I'm like actively investigating right like I'm trying to get to an answer I don't out people I if I can't find out who you're with publicly within like a couple scrolls I don't make a video I also don't ever say someone's I just say who they're with because we don't know.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
You never know. Someone could be bisexual. Someone could be whatever. But it's all... You're very respectful. Very, very respectful. And it's all about just like normalizing calling things gay. It's not bad.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
That is so crazy to me. That's so insane. That's so awesome.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Yeah. You know, it doesn't... It's the kind of thing where it's like the more I do it, the easier it gets. But, you know, I just... This past week, I made a bunch of videos about camogie, which is an Irish stick and ball sport that I literally did not know was a thing until my dad... My dad is a big part of it. He loves to text me articles. He loves to text me headlines. Oh, nice. Yes.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
My family, like my mom, is also on my page a lot. And she's like the biggest fan and supporter, but also loves when she gets her moment. Yeah.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Oh, yeah. And we first did that because I thought it would be hilarious to only have her do, like, really famously gay people. Like, to have her, like, be guessing if Chapel Road is gay or not, you know? And, like, that's hilarious. But then she just started to do all of it. She goes, the people love when I'm on. She's like, just so you know.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
Before I was doing content, when I got to college and I realized I had control of the TV, I was like, I don't know, by TV, I mean my laptop. I was like, I can watch whatever I want. I don't have to watch anything. I don't have to. I could just watch women's sports and I had LSU's great women's sports everywhere. So I would just start going. And that was my biggest thing I did with my free time.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
And so a lot of it is just people, a journalist I've followed since I was in high school who I love to read what they write. And then. I'm just following everyone and just trying to pay attention to what's going on. And now I have like a really nice system of a community of people who DM me all the time. Like, Jackie, you gotta fight this.
BFFR with Sydney Leroux & Ali Riley
Coach Jackie is For Real About Women’s Sports
But it's like, sometimes it's a bit much where it's like, why haven't you brought up this really specific niche thing? And I'm like, guys, I'm really busy. I have a job. I'm so sorry. Yeah. Yeah.