Our Keynote Speaker

Ella Masar is a retired Professional soccer player  who, after a decorated 10 year playing career, returned to the NWSL to help KC CURRENT to the 2022 NWSL Championship game. She has now established herself as a coach and takes great pride in having completed her coaching qualifications in different languages - her UEFA A License in Swedish with the SvFF, and her UEFA B License in German with the DFB.

She had the honor of playing for some of the best clubs in the world.  This includes four different Champion League teams (VfL Wolfsburg Germany, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), Rosengård Sweden, & LSK Norway), 2x Swedish Cup Winner, 2x Bundesliga Champion, 2x Bundesliga Cup Winner, and Champions League Runner Up. Plus, she also had the privilege of representing her country, USA.

As one of the 'founding players' for Chicago Red Stars, with being drafted 9th overall in the first ever WPS draft in 2009, it is one of her proudest moments - post career- to come back and help lead them to the place where she always believed they belonged: at the very very top.