Cassidy Lichtman has played volleyball all around the world. The Stanford alumnae played with the United States National Team and professionally abroad for the last xx years. So being a founding member of the Athletes Unlimited Volleyball league was a breath of fresh air for her and many other players. At the close of last season, Lichtman reflected on her time in Dallas with this new and innovative sports league. In my wildest dreams, there’s no way I could have thought of this, she said. There’s no way I could have thought of being on a Topps card, or a league that would donate to the causes we care about, or Gloria Steinem wearing our t-shirt.

Lichtman returned to AU volleyball for another six-week season in Dallas, Texas. She again holds a leadership position as a member of the Player Executive Committee and the Board of Directors. She is among the voices tasked with synthesizing what players want and moving forward with action, all in service of fully acknowledging and embracing the variety of roles each player brings to the sport. The power of Athletes Unlimited is in recognizing that we are these three-dimensional human beings, Lichtman told me in a phone conversation last week. For me to walk into the building and have it represents so many of the different aspects of us, and our in our history, and what has brought us to this place is incredibly powerful.

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Since AU Volleyball crowned Jordan Larson as its inaugural champion, Texas has passed legislation to ban critical race theory, enforced what is known as the ‘Heartbeat Act’ that makes abortion services six weeks after pregnancy illegal, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called for citizen to report parents of transgender children for child abuse if the children are believed to be receiving gender-affirming medical care. Lichtman and others started by talking to local organizations. It was a move the group felt strongly about in the wake of Major League Baseball pulling its 2020 All-Star Game from Atlanta because of a voting restriction law. Sometimes boycotts affect the people on the ground in ways that you didn't expect, so it was really important to hear from those people, Lichtman told me. In addition, the league leaders reached out to organizations working on specific issue areas, including voting rights, reproductive rights, and other causes important to the athletes and that may be impacted by recent Texas law. It was decided more could be done if the league stayed instead of packing up and playing elsewhere. Staying in Texas has also been an opportunity for the players to discuss these topics among themselves. Once maintaining the safety of players and staff seemed achievable, the players' executive committee established a Texas working group to talk through strategy. Our PEC, in collaboration with AU, ended up deciding that we’re coming to Dallas and walking into the current epicenter of a fight that has spanned generations. We will celebrate our women along with the ones who came before us, support businesses owned by women and people of color, and encourage civic engagement and voter registration. And we’ll play some really great volleyball because that’s part of the work as well, Lichtman wrote in an op-ed for Just Women’s Sports.