Copa is a physical therapist from Houston, Texas. She was educated at Texas Women’s University School of Physical Therapy and at Memorial Hermann Ironman/Rockets Sports Medicine Center Sports Residency. Since graduating, she has worked at a Memorial Hermann Sports Medicine Center clinic in the Houston Medical Center, collecting data for a large knee post operative ACL database and teaching in the residency while caring for orthopedic patients of all ages and activity. She began working with the Dash in 2019 part time and transitioned full time in 2021. She is currently the Head of Rehabilitation and Return to Play.

Richard is the Lead for Female Athlete Health and Performance at the UK Sports Institute, where he has worked across five Games cycles providing leadership in the science and technology support to elite female athletes within the UK Paralympic and Olympic system. Richard is an Associate Professor in Elite Performance and Innovation at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is also the Deputy Head of the Centre of Excellence for Women in Sport. Richard also provides consultancy services to a number of professional football clubs and the sports technology industry.

Fran is the Data and Performance Lead with Arsenal Women FC. He Has worked across the full (almost) performance department as a strength and conditioning coach, sport scientist and rehabilitation coach. Fran is in a leadership role overseeing performance systems, athlete and staff support and decision‑making processes. Previously he has acted in a private capacity and also as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach for Fulham FC elite youth athletes. Fran studied solely at St Mary’s Twickenham where he has attained a Masters in Research and a BSc, the first in Sport, Health, and Applied Science (The GPS derived workload of elite academy footballers), and the second in Strength and Conditioning Science.

Rosie Anderson is a Physical Performance Scientist at Manchester City Women’s Football Club, where she leads the club’s female athlete health and athlete monitoring strategies. Having joined the club as a PhD researcher before transitioning into a full-time role, Rosie has built a strong foundation in translating research into applied practice within elite women’s football. Her role centres on developing evidence-based approaches to athlete health and performance. Working collaboratively with players, multidisciplinary staff, and external consultants, she balances scientific evidence, athlete perspectives, and insights gained through practice to inform decision-making across the performance environment. Alongside her applied responsibilities, Rosie oversees research and innovation projects and delivers education for players and staff, helping to ensure that scientific insights are embedded into practice. Rosie’s research has focused predominantly on menstrual health in professional women’s football. Her published work has explored menstrual health literacy among players and staff, as well as menstrual cycle characteristics and reproductive hormone profiles in elite footballers. This research has highlighted the importance of education, open communication, and recognising the considerable individual variation that exists between athletes, reinforcing the need for individualised and context-specific approaches to menstrual cycle monitoring and support.

Emma is a Pelvic Health Physiotherapist who works at elite sport level and currently consults for Chelsea Women’s Football Club, Arsenal WFC, Manchester City WFC, Aston Villa WFC, London City Lionesses and the USWNT. She is passionate about supporting players with PFD and those who are pregnant and postpartum. She co-authored the first ‘Returning to Running Postpartum Guidelines’ and has gone on to publish further publications around pregnancy and postpartum, including the FIFA Stay in Play and Step into Play frameworks and decision aids. She is part of the expert consensus group for the International Olympic Committee Sports Participation in preconception, pregnancy and postpartum statement. She has spoken at many conferences including ECA, The Female Athlete Conference in Boston, Sports and Exercise in medicine, POGP, Isokinetic and Growing through the Game in Oslo. She is a female health expert for the FIFA Female Health Project and part of the FIFA Perinatal Research team, that includes Prof Margie Davenport, Dr Sinead Dufour and Ivi Casagrande. She is passionate about evolving research for the female perinatal athlete and PFD in elite athletes. Her passion to bust myths and stigma around pelvic health and encourage women of all ages to be active can be heard on many podcasts, including Happy Mum Happy Baby and The Food Medic. She has written her first book ‘Why did no one tell me? How to protect, heal and nurture your body through motherhood’ published by Ebury Books.