GISTers, how will this impact the Stars on opening night? 🫣 #thegist ⁣ •⁣ Chicago Stars forward Mallory Swanson will miss the team's National Women's Soccer League season opener on Friday night against the Orlando Pride for personal reasons. 😳⁣ •⁣ Coach Lorne Donaldson said that Swanson's status is week-to-week and that she did not join the team during the preseason. 👀⁣ •⁣ “Great player, if not one of the top players in the world, but the game still goes on,” Donaldson said. “We still have players that we need to focus on. And I think that gives somebody another opportunity to come out and say, `OK, I can do it' because the game is not going to wait for us." 👏⁣ •⁣ Since joining the team Swanson has been a pillar in Chicago's offense having scored 23 goals in 60 matches for the club. Not to mention putting four goals in for the gold medal-winning United States team during last summer's Paris Olympics. Rockstar. 🤘⁣ •⁣ Swanson did address her absence in a statement back in January sa...