🥇🥈🥉🏀0️⃣5️⃣6️⃣ Travis Murphy
Meet Travis Murphy, a CEO, founder, and a former diplomat whose journey from the Kansas heartland to the helm of JETR Global Sports + Entertainment is a testament to the power of blending diverse experiences and a passion for public service.
🎩0️⃣5️⃣5️⃣ Ambassador Samuel Ducroquet
Meet Samuel Ducroquet, the Ambassador for Sport at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs who is helping to forge closer relations between France and the United States through the sports diplomacy prism.
🗞️🌍🌎0️⃣5️⃣4️⃣ Bruno Lalande
Meet Bruno Lalande, a sports businessman and publisher who has helped bridge transatlantic divides between France, the United States, and Africa thanks to the sporting realm.
🥇🥈🥉0️⃣5️⃣3️⃣Leon Nelson
Meet Leon Nelson, a graduate student at New York University working in the sport industry who gained new insights about France, its culture, and sporting scene as an International Client Relations Manager at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
⛳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.
🎩0️⃣4️⃣8️⃣ Michael Turner
Meet Michael Turner, Counselor for Cultural Affairs at U.S. Embassy France (2022-present) who has taken great strides in using sports to connect the United States and France over the past two years.
🏎️0️⃣4️⃣7️⃣ Hélène “Hellé Nice” Delangle
Meet Helen Delangle, aka “Hellé Nice,” a global sports celebrity who set speed records during her career-long quest to compete on equal terms with male counterparts on auto racing circuits from Europe and North Africa to the Americas.
🏀0️⃣4️⃣6️⃣ Vincent Collet
Meet Vincent Collet, the former player-turned-coach whose transatlantic hoops influences and relationships inform his work with professional teams, as well as that with Team France.
⚾0️⃣4️⃣5️⃣ Benjie Meleras
Meet Benjie Meleras, a French-American helping to elevate baseball on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
✍️🏀0️⃣4️⃣4️⃣ Deliah Mathieu
Meet Deliah Mathieu, a public relations and communications strategist whose storytelling work on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean have helped foster greater French-American understandings through sport.
🏈0️⃣4️⃣3️⃣ Maceo Beard
Meet Maceo Beard, a cornerback for the Paris Musketeers who facilitates the transatlantic sports conversation thanks to his passion for American football.
🏀0️⃣4️⃣2️⃣ Agnus Berenato
Meet Agnus Berenato, a former player, storied NCAA Division 1 coach, educator and an early U.S. pioneer who played professional basketball in France.
🏀0️⃣4️⃣1️⃣Dianne Nolan
Meet Dianne Nolan, one of the longest reigning NCAA D1 women’s basketball head coaches who discovered her FranceAndUS connection at the world’s oldest basketball court in Paris during her broadcast career with ESPN.
🏀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.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣9️⃣Gail Marquis
Meet Gail Marquis, a Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer with the 1976 Olympic silver medal-winning U.S. team who blazed trails in the United States and France through basketball.
🎨🏀0️⃣3️⃣8️⃣ Anaïa Hoard
Meet Anaïa Hoard, a multi-hyphenate artist, former basketball player, 2017 U16 European Champion, and 2018 U17 World Cup runner-up with the French National team who is helping to redefine basketball as a global cultural movement, not just a game.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣7️⃣ Fanta Daffe
Meet Fanta Daffe, a student-athlete swishing hoops on both sides of the Atlantic while representing France and Mali on and off the hardcourt.
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.