Brand New at 42 with Holly Jimenez - It's Never Too Late To Be Great!
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Holly Jimenez shares her journey of starting to referee soccer at the age of 42 and the challenges she faced along the way.
Send us Fan Mail The hardest part of picking up a whistle as an adult isn’t learning the signals, it’s walking onto the field while everyone assumes you’ve done this forever. Holly Jimenez knows that feeling firsthand. She starts refereeing at 42, feels the nerves at U9 games, makes the kind of mistakes that haunt you on the drive home, and still keeps showing up until her experience builds and the confidence grows. We get into how she goes from local youth soccer to top level assignments li...
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