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# Ball Really Is Life for Skylar Shroder | Toma Stories
- URL: https://www.fortyonemag.com/ball-really-is-life-for-skylar-shroder-toma-stories/
- Published: 2026-07-01T19:19:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-01T19:19:41.000Z
- Author: staff
- Tags: The Beautiful Game, Video, Nike, Nike Toma

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She slept with the ball as a kid. She learned her game watching the boys train in Atlanta. During lockdown, she taught herself a backflip and made it her signature.

Skylar Schroeder is a midfielder from Atlanta, headed to the Nike TOMA North America Final in New York. UAB commit. High school All-American. Barcelona dream.

She says Atlanta gets counted out. She is going to New York to prove it wrong.

You will see the backflip. She guaranteed it.

Toma Stories is a Forty-One Original Series on the journeys of the young ballers who are competing in Nike's TOMA EL Juego competitions across the county. Told in their own words.