Ella joined Pride Park at the start of this season on a dual registration with Duffield Dynamo U18. The attacking midfielder is the youngest member of the squad but is already making an impression in her first season in Open Age.

Impetus is a women’s football website that publishes news, reports and features from all levels of the game around the world and is Pride Parks’s media content partner.

Impetus is recognised by the Women’s Sports Alliance and the British Library Archives. Impetus now attracts several thousand readers each week from around the world, with a particularly large audience in Australia, the UK, the USA, Canada, Sweden, France, and New Zealand. Impetus has 12 UK-based writers, 10 contributors based in Australia, one in France, two in Canada, one in the Republic of Ireland, one in New Zealand, one in Sweden, one in Mexico, one in Ghana, one in Nigeria, and one in Kenya.

The site is recognized by the FA, Welsh FA, Irish FA, Scottish Women’s Football, and Football Australia who provide us with regular accreditation. Our French editor Jean-Pierre Thiesset holds accreditation to report for us from Olympique Lyonnais Feminin home games.
Impetus’ founder and chief editor Ben Gilby is a UEFA recognised women’s football writer. Ben won the Women’s Sports Alliance’s inaugural media contributor award for women’s sport in April 2020.

Impetus have a charity partnership with John Moriarty Football, sponsor 14 players and assist with 2 female Australian scholars. They also have partnership relations with 6 grassroots clubs, helping them with media content and PR. Find out more here:impetusfootball.org/partnerships/

this article was updated 23/04/23