Kim Ng, Sarah Fuller, and the WNBA: Relive 2020's Best Moments For Women in Sports

In September, the NWSL's first ever Native player made her debut for the OL Reign. Madison Hammond, who is Navajo and San Felipe Pueblo, is clear on the role she believes athletes can have when it comes to making political statements. "I always just think it's funny that people are willing to take athletes as icons and transformative people when it suits them and when it makes them comfortable," she told POPSUGAR in October. "I think it's unfair for people to idolize athletes and expect them not to use their public platforms for what they want their voices to be heard for." Now with a national platform, we expect this athlete to continue making a statement.