Following Cooky’s (2017) call for a public sociology of sport that ensures knowledge to be both accessible and translatable from academe to the public sphere, Stride, Fitzgerald, and Allison (2017) attempted to answer this call through narrative-based research. Stride et al. did so within the purview of the practitioner-researcher relationship, a disciplinary focus that wields the power to reproduce neoliberal values within the sporting context; the likes of which can manifest in our research processes. Thus, we wish to move beyond this dichotomy and encourage researchers, when handling the narratives of participants, to engage with responsible and contextualizing narrative research practice. To do so, we pull from a recently completed research project where we spoke with the parents of middle and high school aged youth who were enrolled in an after-school, sport-based youth development program. We utilized critical feminist narrative inquiry (CFNI) to curate the experiences and vantage point of the parent, whereby offered is a contextualization as to how neoliberal subject-making was witnessed within each respective narrative. Examining stories such as those offered by the parents can allow researchers to better understand how and in what way(s) they constructed their narratives within the backdrop of the “neoliberal space.”