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of this life. The more you learn about something, the more you learn about yourself,” she said. That belief anchors the legacy Harrington hopes to build, especially through her work with young women. She created Most Valuable Pivot (MVP), a workshop designed to help female student-athletes develop identities beyond their sport. Drawing from her own experience, the program encourages participants to recognize their strengths, explore creativity, and prepare for life after athletics long before the final buzzer sounds.
Harrington began piloting the workshops with the girls she coached, then expanded the program to schools in her hometown. She hopes to eventually make MVP a resource for high school students, college athletes, and young adults navigating post-graduation transitions. “At its core, it’s about equipping young people with the tools to design their own path,” she said. “The premise really is to teach female student-athletes to be the architects of their identity.”
extend far beyond sports.
“Having an identity outside of sports has just opened up the entire world to me. I want the next generation of student-athletes to have the confidence and clarity to go from whatever sport they’re playing to the most unconventional dream they have,” she said. For Harrington, the program also offers representation—something that once helped her envision new possibilities for herself and that she now hopes to pass on.
The idea grew out of her time coaching middle school basketball and lacrosse.
While MVP was created with athletes in mind, Harrington believes its lessons
“If you can see someone who was once an athlete, who’s now a pageant title
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