Let Her Play is a guide for parents who have a daughter playing sports. Regardless of what sport she plays — soccer, basketball, softball, cheerleading, gymnastics, swimming, volleyball, tennis, track and field, field hockey, dance — this book will help you as a parent to navigate the sports experience. So many times, the sports environment can be emotionally draining, charged with all kinds of fears, desires, goals, aspirations, and broken hearts, including upset and enraged sideline guests and fired-up coaches. Let Her Play is a guide to help your family understand what makes for meaningful play of your female athlete's favorite game. It will help you as a parent to instill a sense of confidence, bravery, and independence. This book will: - Help you develop a more meaningful connection with your daughter and create a safe environment for her to share thoughts and experiences about sports and life. - - Provide an understanding of the science of high performance in sports and in careers, as well as the mathematics of your daughter’s sports pipeline to success. - - Give you clear action steps on what to ask, discuss, or bring up in various scenarios and what you can do as a parent to establish your daughter's healthy relationship to sports principles like confidence, failure, hard work, independence, and more. - - Present multiple new and exciting ways of creating conversations with your daughter, identifying who is the priority in the sporting experience, and navigating the emotions that come with parenting a female athlete. Let Her Play is for parents who are committed to their daughters and to learning about themselves in order to better serve their female athlete through her own challenges and growth.