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During her free agency conversations, midfielder Dani Weatherholt noticed that all of the teams she spoke to were saying the right things. After speaking with North Carolina’s head coach Sean Nahas, she was convinced that in North Carolina, they were going to do more than just say the right things: “We’re not going to talk the talk, we’re just going to walk the walk.”
That conversation weighed into Weatherholt’s decision to sign a two-year contract with the North Carolina Courage after exploring free agency in the offseason.
“I just want to start off by saying how thrilled and honored I am to be joining the Courage,” Weatherholt told The Equalizer of her decision to come to North Carolina. She added, “I really wanted to be in an environment that was going to push me and challenge me and had a winning culture.”
A ‘winning culture’ is one way to describe that of the Courage, who are one of the most successful clubs in the NWSL. Fresh off the 2016 NWSL…
