{"id":16693,"date":"2019-07-03T17:49:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T17:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/pegasus\/?p=16693&post_type=story"},"modified":"2023-11-20T20:26:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T20:26:05","slug":"the-defiant-one","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/pegasus\/the-defiant-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Defiant One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer 2019 | By Jenna Marina Lee<\/em><\/p>\n

[lead]UCF rising senior Konya Plummer\u2019s journey to becoming the\u00a0youngest team captain at the 2019 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup\u00a0started on the sideline of an open field in the small Jamaican\u00a0community of Epsom, Saint Mary.[\/lead]<\/p>\n

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At 14, Plummer had just received her first soccer ball as a gift from her mother, and she took it to a field hoping to join a competitive evening game.<\/p>\n

The neighborhood boys didn\u2019t think she was good enough to play, so they took her ball and sent her to sit on the side to watch.<\/p>\n

Plummer plopped down and began braiding long blades of grass to pass the time. And then, with the same determination that would eventually drive her to lead the first Caribbean nation to a Women\u2019s World Cup appearance, she\u00a0vowed to prove herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started training. I had to be strong and I had to be tough,\u201d Plummer says. \u201cFrom then, I decided, I\u2019m never going to sit on the sideline again.\u201d<\/p>\n

What unfolded next has been an adventure that has provided the interdisciplinary studies<\/a> major with the opportunity to forge a path unlike anyone in her native country who has come before her.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2014 Konya Plummer<\/strong>, UCF student-athlete and captain of the Jamaica women’s national team<\/span>
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Plummer\u2019s hometown is roughly 40 miles from Jamaica\u2019s capital, Kingston, on the northeast side of the island. She describes it as \u201ccountry\u201d \u2014 which is the nickname her national team teammates gave her \u2014 and says it\u2019s her favorite place in the world.<\/p>\n

When she was 16 years old, she flew on a plane for the first time to compete in Miami, and her world opened up. The idea\u00a0that something more could be out there propelled her to move to the United States and join a club team, West Pines United F.C. in South Florida.<\/p>\n

There, she first caught the attention of Hue Menzies, who is the executive director of a competitive club team in Oviedo and the Jamaica women\u2019s national team\u2019s head coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was the best of the younger players. We felt like we needed to follow her,\u201d says Menzies, who joined the women\u2019s national team staff as a consultant in 2015 before taking over as head coach a year later.<\/p>\n

She soon worked her way up to the senior national team as a center back defender and was named captain. Menzies says she may be young on paper, but her maturity and leadership qualities are evident in the way she carries herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have players on the team who are 33 years old and look up to her. It\u2019s just who she is as a person,\u201d Menzies says. \u201cShe is Jamaica. She is what Jamaica is about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cDo I look strong?\u201d\u00a0Plummer asks as she poses during a photo shoot on UCF\u2019s soccer field. Sure, there are brief moments when she\u2019s also concerned about the integrity of her top bun, but she never asks if a strand of hair is misplaced or if the makeup artist on call can glam her up a bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I look strong?\u201d<\/p>\n

Because of their lack of opportunities and the perception of female footballers in their country, the women of Jamaica have to be strong.<\/p>\n

Jamaica has no professional league for women. Even in 2019, some people insist it\u2019s a men\u2019s game \u2014 no women allowed.<\/p>\n

According to a feature story that ran in the June issue of ESPN the Magazine<\/em>, the Jamaican Football Federation has cut the funding for the team twice, leaving the squad disbanded for years at a time and eliminating any possibility of qualifying for a World Cup or Olympics.<\/p>\n

When the federation did reinstate the team, the article states that the players did their own laundry. They rode in rickety vans. The squad would practice and then break for a few days so players could work at their day jobs. Meanwhile, Jamaica\u2019s men\u2019s national team has full funding and ran training camps ahead of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, even though their squad hasn\u2019t qualified for the tournament since 1998.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s team has had to largely rely on benefactors, like Cedella Marley (Bob Marley\u2019s daughter), to get to where they are today.<\/p>\n

By qualifying for this year\u2019s World Cup, the\u00a0team cautiously hopes the milestone will serve\u00a0as a catalyst for change and progress.<\/p>\n

Menzies has made it a priority for the women\u2019s national team to run soccer clinics for children. In the past, he says they were lucky to draw 20 kids. Now, 200 will show up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all about preaching the opportunity is\u00a0there if you just focus yourself to beat all the odds\u00a0around you and make that decision to go on the\u00a0right path,\u201d he says. \u201cI think football can do that\u00a0for them. It\u2019s another avenue for young females\u00a0who want to come to the States and get a\u00a0proper education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortly after the team qualified\u00a0for the World Cup, Olivia Grange,\u00a0Jamaica\u2019s minister of culture, gender,\u00a0entertainment and sport, insisted on a\u00a0countrywide celebration for the Reggae\u00a0Girlz, the team\u2019s nickname.\u00a0People lined the streets to\u00a0welcome the players as they\u00a0pulled into towns. Plummer\u00a0accepted keys to the\u00a0city at various\u00a0stops, including\u00a0Montego Bay and Kingston, on behalf of the team.\u00a0Concerts were held. They met the prime minister.<\/p>\n

Menzies says the whole experience was more\u00a0than any of them expected. The only thing he\u00a0could compare it to is when he witnessed Nelson\u00a0Mandela visit Jamaica in 1991.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe already see the impact. We call them \u2018the\u00a0wagonists.\u2019 We have no problem with you jumping\u00a0on the wagon. We just want you to stay on it,\u201d\u00a0Menzies says. \u201cOur story doesn\u2019t end now. It goes\u00a0beyond. I don\u2019t want our players and our staff to\u00a0become complacent. We still have to remember\u00a0the reason why we\u2019re doing this. It\u2019s not just about\u00a0the World Cup. It\u2019s about how we are going to\u00a0sustain this after the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prior to this year, just three Knights had ever been\u00a0named to a FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup roster in\u00a0the 28-year history of the championship: Lena\u00a0Petermann, who played one season at UCF in\u00a02013 before turning pro and competing for her\u00a0native Germany in the 2015 Women\u2019s World Cup;\u00a0Amy (Allman) Griffin \u201988<\/strong>, a 1991 champion;\u00a0and legend Michelle Akers \u201989<\/strong>, who was a part\u00a0of three World Cups and led Team USA to two\u00a0championships in 1991 and 1999.<\/p>\n

This year, however, Plummer was one of four\u00a0Knights<\/a> who represented their countries in\u00a0France, and the first UCF student-athlete\u00a0to compete on the global stage while still\u00a0enrolled in school.<\/p>\n

\u201cParticipating in the World Cup or winning a\u00a0World Cup championship is the equivalent\u00a0of competing at the Olympics or winning\u00a0a gold medal. It\u2019s a dream that any\u00a0soccer player is going to have.\u00a0That\u2019s the pinnacle of your\u00a0career,\u201d says UCF women\u2019s\u00a0soccer head coach Tiffany\u00a0Roberts Sahaydak,\u00a0who won Olympic\u00a0gold and the\u00a0World Cup during her 10 years as a member of the U.S.\u00a0women\u2019s national team.<\/p>\n

Roberts Sahaydak was 22 years old \u2014 just a few\u00a0months older than Plummer is now \u2014 when she\u00a0helped the United States capture glory in the 1999\u00a0World Cup in front of more than 90,000 fans at\u00a0the Rose Bowl in California. Much like Plummer,\u00a0the UCF coach didn\u2019t have any female soccer\u00a0players to look up to when she was growing up.\u00a0But in 1999, Roberts Sahaydak became that role\u00a0model for the next generation.<\/p>\n

\u201cKonya is now in that position to be that\u00a0person for Jamaica, which is incredible to think\u00a0about,\u201d Roberts Sahaydak says. \u201cSome little girl\u00a0from Jamaica is going to be watching Konya this\u00a0summer, and that fire is going to go off. They are\u00a0going to say, \u2018I want to be just like her when I grow\u00a0up.\u2019 \u2026 Having these role models helps these young\u00a0girls stay on path and stick to their education,\u00a0stick to their work ethic and their dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that realization is not lost on Plummer.<\/p>\n

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Whether she\u2019s on the field or studying for a\u00a0test, she thinks about the kids looking up to her.\u00a0She thinks about her family. She thinks about her\u00a0teammates. She thinks about the people in her\u00a0hometown who stop her on the street to ask for\u00a0her autograph. And she doesn\u2019t want to disappoint\u00a0a single one of them.<\/p>\n

She says she wrestles with some heavy\u00a0questions: How should she deal with fame? How\u00a0can she achieve all she wants to and still have a life\u00a0outside of soccer? Why was she appointed to be a\u00a0leader at such a young age?<\/p>\n

While on an official national team trip to South\u00a0Africa in April \u2014 two months before stepping onto\u00a0the field in France for the biggest moment of her\u00a0life thus far \u2014 she got the answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was talking to one of our hosts and she\u00a0said, \u2018Your name means leadership. It means\u00a0command.\u2019 I almost cried when she told me that,\u201d\u00a0Plummer says. \u201cI was searching for the answer my\u00a0whole time being a captain \u2014 why was I chosen?\u00a0It may be a coincidence, but I take it seriously.\u00a0Everything happens for a reason.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was born to be a leader, and I was born to be\u00a0in this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Amy (Allman) Griffin \u201988<\/h3>\n

USA (1987\u201391) |<\/span> GOALKEEPER<\/span><\/p>\n

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1991 FIFA World Cup Champion<\/p>\n

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1999 UCF Athletics Hall of Fame<\/p>\n

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1987 All-American<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Michelle Akers \u201989<\/h2>\n

USA (1985-2000) |<\/span> FORWARD<\/span><\/p>\n

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1999, 1991 FIFA World Cup Champion<\/p>\n

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FIFA Women’s Player of the Century<\/p>\n

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1998 UCF Athletics Hall of Fame<\/p>\n

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1996 Olympic Gold Medalist<\/p>\n

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Tiffany Roberts Sahaydak<\/h2>\n

USA (1994-2004) |<\/span> MIDFIELDER<\/span><\/p>\n

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UCF Head Coach<\/p>\n

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1999 FIFA World Cup Champion<\/p>\n

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1996 Olympic Gold Medalist<\/p>\n

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Ambassador for U.S. Soccer with Department of State Sports Envoy Program<\/p>\n

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Lena Petermann<\/h2>\n

GER (2015-18) |<\/span> FORWARD<\/span><\/p>\n

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2015 FIFA World Cup Appearance<\/p>\n

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2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup<\/p>\n

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Played one season at UCF before turning pro<\/p>\n

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2013 AAC Rookie of the Year<\/p>\n

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2013 AAC All-Conference Honoree<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

NOW:<\/span> UCF At Women’s World Cup<\/h3>\n
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Sophie Howard \u201915<\/h4>\n

Scotland |<\/span> DEFENDER<\/span><\/p>\n

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Plays professionally for Reading Women FC (United Kingdom)<\/p>\n

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2014 AAC All-Conference Honoree<\/p>\n

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2013-14 AAC All-American Team<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Aline Reis \u201911<\/h4>\n

Brazil |<\/span> GOAL KEEPER<\/span><\/p>\n

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Plays professionally for UDG Tenerife (Spain)<\/p>\n

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2019 UCF Athletics Hall of Fame<\/p>\n

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2016 Olympian<\/p>\n

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2010-11 Academic All-American<\/p>\n

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2008 All-American<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kathellen Sousa<\/h4>\n

Brazil |<\/span> DEFENDER<\/span><\/p>\n

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Plays professionally for FC Girondins de Bordeaux (France)<\/p>\n

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Enrolled in UCF Online<\/a><\/p>\n

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2017 AAC Defensive Player of the Year<\/p>\n

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