🏈0️⃣6️⃣3️⃣ Jan Woska
Meet Jan Woska, who connects the USA and France using sport as a tool to highlight historic, cultural and economic ties between Louisiana and France with the aim to make the New Orleans Saints the most beloved American football team in France.
⛳0️⃣5️⃣2️⃣ Adrien Pendariès
Meet Adrien Pendariès, a Franco-American golfer writing new chapters in the transatlantic game at the collegiate, professional, and elite levels.
⛳0️⃣5️⃣1️⃣ Robynne Pendariès
Meet Robynne Pendariès, an American who discovered different aspects of France via golf as a manager, wife, and parent of golfers, writing new chapters into what it takes to navigate the transatlantic elite, professional, and collegiate sports worlds.
⛳0️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ Léa Pendariès
Meet Léa Pendariès, a Franco-American student athlete bridging the transatlantic drives via golf. Everywhere I go, I take my French norms and culture with me, whether that’s on or off the golf course.
⛳0️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ Marc Pendariès
Meet Marc Pendariès, a former golf professional-turned-coach who drives transatlantic exchanges one shot at a time.
⚾0️⃣4️⃣5️⃣ Benjie Meleras
Meet Benjie Meleras, a French-American helping to elevate baseball on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
🏀0️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ Melissa Diawakana
Meet Melissa Diawakana, a former professional player-turned-skills trainer, graduated professional coach, speaker, and media consultant who spun a passion for basketball into a career and passport to the world.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣6️⃣ Mah Minthe
Meet Mah Minthe, a student-athlete transcending transatlantic ties through basketball to live her version of the “American Dream” on and off the court.
🏀0️⃣1️⃣4️⃣ Michel Rat
Meet Michel Rat, a basketball player, coach, and administrator who helped translate U.S. style basketball techniques to generations of French players from 1962 to today.
🏀0️⃣0️⃣8️⃣ Katia Foucade-Hoard
Meet Katia Foucade-Hoard, the 1993 European Vice-Champion and first French woman to play four years of NCAA D1 basketball on scholarship.
Mapping the Connections
The connections highlighted by #FranceAndUS Voices over time.
Blue = From the United States to France. Red = From France to the United States.