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SEE HER BE HER, Women’s Baseball Around the World, filmmaker Jean Fruth...Ep209

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:30:00 -0000

Jean Fruth is an internationally recognized photographer, filmmaker and visual storyteller whose work harnesses the power of images to inspire change. She is the co-founder of two nonprofit organizations, Grassroots Baseball and SEE HER BE HER, which uses sports to empower youth, underserved communities, and women globally.

Jean made her film debut in 2024 as Director and Producer of SEE HER BE HER and is the Author/Photographer of three books in the Grassroots Baseball Series: Where Legends Begin (2019), Route 66 (2022) and See Her Be Her (2024). Jean is honored to be designated by Sony as one of its select Sony Artisans of Imagery. In recognition of her impact as a visual storyteller and changemaker, she was honored with the 2025 United Nations International Photographic Council Achievement Award.

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The Cyclists’ Alliance Fundraiser, Deena Blacking & Christine O’Connell...Ep208

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:30:00 -0000

Deena Blacking and Christine O’Connell talk to host Elizabeth Emery about The Cyclists’ Alliance Go Fund Me, sponsorship, the growth of women’s cycling, worries about the development pathway to the top level of the sport, media coverage, TCA’s role is in the world of women’s cycling, sponsorship, and how to be a superfan.

Christine spent over 20 years working in strategy and corporate development, including senior roles at Thomson Reuters and in strategy consulting. She now focuses on her cycling based charity campaign, One More City, a global charity initiative built around long distance cycling challenges, raising funds for research into secondary, or metastatic, breast cancer. Christine has been living with secondary breast cancer since 2018, and cycling is an important part of how she manages the disease and continues to live a full life.

Christine is Vice President of The Cyclists’ Alliance, the organization representing female professional cyclists, and Vice Chairman of the Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing.

Deena is a cycling coach and consultant in sport. She has worked with national and international sports organizations for the last ten years. Prior to this, she worked as a lawyer in human rights law in the UK.

Deena has been involved with The Cyclists' Alliance since 2020. She initially supported the work of The Cyclists' Alliance using her legal skills to support riders, and later took on responsibility for the annual survey, then the mentor program, and now the overall day to day of the organization in her role as Interim Managing Director.

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Teresa Mullen, Competitiveness of Playing. Softball & Volleyball Senior Games Gold Medals...Ep207

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:30:00 -0000

Teresa Mullen, now 75 years old, is a long time athlete with a passion for playing, coaching, officiating, and watching women’s sports.

Teresa started playing softball with her cousins at a very young age in a farm field with a wooden bat and 12 inch mush ball. When she was growing up there were very few opportunities for females to participate in any sports. For example, at her small high school only basketball and track were offered for girls.

After going to a two-year college, she played on a competitive, company softball league and later played in volleyball leagues. Soon she knew she also wanted to coach in order to pass on all her technical and training knowledge to young ladies eager to learn. She began by coaching softball, then added basketball and volleyball. Next Teresa passed her officiating exams for basketball, softball, and volleyball at the high school level.

Teresa still coaches, officiates, and still plays softball and volleyball in the National Senior Games held every two years. She finally won the elusive gold medal several years ago in both softball and volleyball!

In the episode Teresa and host Elizabeth Emery talk about her history as a long-time athlete, Title IX, coaching and officiating, why she prefers to play on women’s teams, changes she has seen in women’s sports, flag football, half-court basketball, managing the limitations of getting older, and the joy of watching young female athletes take advantages of all the opportunities now available. Teresa loves watching her daughter (a former college softball player) coach her twins in basketball and softball.

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Helena Gilbert Snyder, Monarch Racing Junior Development Cycling Team...Ep206

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:30:00 -0000

Helena Gilbert-Snyder is a former professional cyclist and founder of Monarch Racing: an elite women's road team & a junior girls' development road team. Her experiences and perspectives on sports, gender, and society are reflected in the goal of her team, which stretches far beyond cycling, towards a mission of creating powerful, kind, and confident individuals who will become leaders in their communities and the world.

Helena & host Elizabeth Emery discuss confidence, body image, nutrition, eating disorders, privilege, speaking up, team dynamics, being perfect and never enough, aggression, and being mean.

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Joyce Scoglietti, Northcoast Vintage Players, 45+ Softball League...Ep205

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:30:00 -0000

Joyce Scoglietti played slow pitch softball for most of her life. She started at 2nd base in a church league when she was 8 years old and now plays with the Northcoast Vintage Players, a league for 45+.

Joyce was born in 1957, so most of her young athletic career happened before Title IX passed. There were no school sports programs available to her until the 10th grade when she joined competitive volleyball, basketball, and softball teams. She speaks of finally having a uniform, coaches, and referees!

Joyce was the recipient of the first award for athlete of the year from Billie Jean King.

Joyce also refereed high school volleyball for 36 years and was the president of the Cleveland Volleyball Officials Association for 15 of those years. During that time she witnessed the level of play rise exceptionally. She tells us what that looked like and how it impacted the reffing.

Joyce and Hear Her Sports host Elizabeth Emery also talk about playing with the boys until puberty, weird gym suits, feeling at home and truly like herself in the gym, the importance of her coaches, and still playing softball for the love of the game.

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Wanda Ford, 1st Woman in NCAA History to Reach 1500 Rebounds...Ep204

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:30:00 -0000

Wanda Ford is a basketball standout. She is the first woman in NCAA history to amass 1500 basketball rebounds and she set the NCAA career record with 1,887 rebounds. She had 102 career double-doubles. Wanda was also one of the leading scorers in the game. She set the NCAA single-season scoring record with 919 points in 1986 (now eighth all time). Her average of 30.6 points per game in 1986 was the second highest at that time (now fifth all time). She also scored 54 points in a February 22, 1986 game against Missouri State, which was the second highest single-game scoring total up to that time (now tied for seventh all time). In this episode Wanda tells stories of her basketball in the early days of girls sports, what drew her to Drake University, her education there, traveling and living all over the place through basketball, and her late-night (until 2am!) basketball program. Wanda was a Women’s Sports Foundation Player of the Year, a Kodak All-American, a three time Women’s Basketball Yearbook All-America team selection, a two time MVP player of the year, a four-time first-team all-conference choice, ten times a league player of the week, a two time finalist for the Wade Trophy, and was named Coach of the Year in youth basketball by the City of Parma, where she is now a Phys Ed teacher. After graduating from Drake in 1986, Wanda played professional basketball for 16 years in Italy, Brazil, Sweden and Israel. She was part of seven league championship teams, and won such personal awards as Most Valuable Player and Newcomer of the Year, both in Israel. Wanda’s number has been retired at both East Tech High School and Drake University. She was inducted into the Sports Legends of Cleveland Public Schools Senate League in 2022 for her high school career at East Tech High School. And in 2025 Wanda was inducted into the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame, which is how I learned about her outstanding career.

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Lindsay Glavan, Believe in Girls Ice Hockey. Build a Team...Ep203

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:30:00 -0000

Lindsay Glavan played Division I NCAA Women’s Ice Hockey at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pa. She graduated in 2005 having scored 63 points in 139 games as a Mercyhurst Laker and led the team as assistant captain in her junior and senior years. The Lakers were conference champions each year and made their NCAA Tournament debut in March 2005.

With support from others in October of 2023, Lindsay started an all-girls team, Garfield Heights Bulldogs, in Garfield Heights, Ohio. They compete against both all-girls and co-ed teams, with a majority of games played locally. Players from the Bulldogs Girls Ice Hockey Team have gone on to join competitive teams in the Cleveland Suburban Hockey League, represent their high school teams in the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA), and play for the Gilmour Gladiators Tier II girls program. In addition to coaching, Lindsay advocates for girls hockey. She understands the power of all girls teams to positively shape a girl’s hockey experience, confidence and leadership qualities. She believes in the importance of grassroots efforts to inspire action from those with power to make sustainable change for local girls hockey infrastructure.

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Deedra Irwin, Olympic Biathlon. It takes so much to have a perfect day...Ep202

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:30:00 -0000

With biathlete Deedra Irwin, host Elizabeth Emery talks about how hard it is to perform perfectly on a specific day, how she thinks about balance in a bunch of scenarios, and how she found financial and mental security for greater performance. Deedra has fascinating insight into being a returning Olympian and everything that goes into making an Olympic team.

Deedra grew up running competitively in Northeast Wisconsin. She started skiing at 16 years old to help stay in shape for running during the winter. She decided to be a 3 sport athlete at Michigan Tech and while there competed in 2 Nordic Skiing NCAA championships and U23 Worlds for Team USA in 2015. She then skied professional with the Sun Valley Ski Education Gold Team for 2 seasons after college. In 2017 she attended a US Biathlon Talent ID camp and decided to take a chance on Biathlon. Short after she made the X-team and joined the Vermont National Guard in 2019. Deedra qualified for her first Olympics in 2022. In her debut race at the 2022 Beijing Olympics she raced to a historic 7th place in the Women's 15km Individual shooting 19/20. This is the best Olympic finish in US Biathlon history. Since the 2022 Olympics Deedra has been the top female athlete for the US Biathlon Team and in the 24/25 season was ranked top-40 in the IBU World Cup standings. She is now preparing to race in her second Olympics in Milano-Cortina 2026.

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How We Age. Studying 92 Year Old World Record Holder...Ep201

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:30:00 -0000

Marta Colosio is an Italian postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on neuromuscular function and performance fatigability in young and older adults, as well as in individuals with metabolic disease. She studies how exercise, training interventions, and nutritional supplementation influence muscle health, and how sex differences shape these responses. We talk about what is the best behavior to improve the way that we live in old age.

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Lidia Cusack, Cyclocross World Cup Namur...Ep200

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 09:30:00 -0000

Lidia Cusack is an emerging professional cyclist who has made her mark in both road racing and cyclocross. She began racing at a young age on her local club team in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and quickly moved into the national and international scene.

After graduating high school, Lidia took the bold step to move to Europe to pursue her cycling dreams. Her dedication paid off with impressive results in UCI events, World Cup races, and World Championships. Notable achievements during her junior years include victory at the prestigious Druivenkoers - Overijse road race and a commanding cyclocross World Cup win in Dublin. Her 5th place finish at the 2024 Cyclocross World Championship further solidified her status as a rising star in the sport.

As a U23 rider, Lidia is staying patient while challenging herself among elite competitors - knowing that results will come with experience. In her future Lidia dreams of having a long and healthy career, winning a monument on the road, and winning an elite cyclocross world title. She also aspires to be a role model for future American female cyclists, showing them that it is possible to succeed at the highest levels despite barriers that come with being an American in a very Euro-focussed sport.
Aside from racing her bicycle, Lidia loves spending time outdoors - mountain biking, backpacking, skiing, sailing, and anything else that brings her to nature.

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Betty Kellenberger, Oldest Woman to Thru-Hike the Appalachian Trail...Ep199

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:30:00 -0000

Betty Kellenberger and her five sisters grew up in a farming family. She attended Central Michigan University and then taught for 40+ years in Carson City, Michigan. Her summer breaks were filled with traveling, often by bicycle. She pedaled across every state in the US and every province in Canada. Betty has also ridden in China, New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. She’s been on a couple of archeological digs, studied at numerous universities, lead a Boy Scout troop to earn their cycling badge, served four terms in public office before the desire to travel demanded her attention.

In September of 2025, at 80 years old, Betty became the oldest woman to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail.
She tells us all about her AT hike, shares words of wisdom and personal philosophy, plus much more.

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Vanessa Bonebrake, Swimming the English Channel...Ep198

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:30:00 -0000

Vanessa Bonebrake was born in France and started swimming on a team when she was six years old. When she was ten, her family moved to Costa Rica, where she joined one of the country’s top swim teams and competed at the national level until she was 18.

After taking a short break to focus on school, she rediscovered her love for swimming while earning a master’s degree. That’s when her lifelong connection to the water truly came back to life. Not long after that Vanessa found open water swimming and it completely changed her path. She’s completed several endurance swim races, including the True Width of Lake Tahoe, Swim Around Key West, and Escape from Alcatraz, among many others.

Vanessa is also a proud Sea Dreamers Ambassador, where she helps inspire more women to dive into open water swimming and raise awareness for ocean conservation.

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Hendrika de Vries, Open Turns: Memoir of Champion Swimmer in 1950s Australia...Ep197

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:30:00 -0000

Hendrika de Vries is a retired family therapist, a teacher, and a writer, chronicling her life experiences with oppression and resistance in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, migration, competitive swimming, and misogyny in 1950s Australia. A fierce feminist and activist, de Vries infuses her writing with historical depth and personal perspective on challenges facing women and anyone deemed other. She is the author of When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew, award-winning memoir of her WWII childhood. and OPEN TURNS: From Dutch Girl to New Australian, which tells the story of her coming-of-age experience as an immigrant and a champion swimmer in 1950s Australia. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times and the LA Times. She lives in Santa Barbara, CA. Find out more about her at www.agirlfromamsterdam.com.

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Grace Brown, The Cyclists’ Alliance Rider Survey...Ep196

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:30:00 -0000

Grace Brown OAM is Australia’s most successful female road cyclist. She recently retired from the sport as Olympic and World Champion in the Individual time trial. In 2024, she reached the pinnacle of her career, winning Olympic gold in Paris, becoming World Champion in the Individual Time Trial, and claiming victory in the prestigious Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Brown is now part of the SBS commentary and podcast team, and president of the board of The Cyclists' Alliance.

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Emalee Nelson Stone, Wayland Baptist Flying Queens...Ep195

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:30:00 -0000

Dr. Emalee Nelson Stone and host Elizabeth Emery discuss the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens' 131-game winning streak during the 1950s and how that impacted women’s basketball today.

Dr. Emalee Nelson Stone is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of sport, history, society, and culture. Specifically, her research examines the sporting experiences of American women. She has presented her work at numerous national and international academic conferences. Her writing can be found in various academic journals, including The International Journal of Sport History, Sport History Review, the Journal of Sport History, and The Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics. Recently, she served as a speaker and facilitator at the U.S. Soccer Federation's SheChampions Summit during the 2024 SheBelieves Cup. Currently, she is engaged in two book projects through Texas Tech University Press. The first project explores the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens' 131-game winning streak during the 1950s. The second project investigates the landscape of Texas collegiate women's sports during the 1970s within the context of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). She received a BA in Geography and MA in History from Texas Tech University, an MA in American Studies from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, and a PhD in Kinesiology from The University of Texas at Austin.

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Georgia Hall, Professional Golfer...Ep194

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:30:00 -0000

Georgia Hall won the AIG Women’s Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 2018, just five years after triumphing in the R&A Women’s Amateur Championship. Georgia’s victory wasn’t just special because it was her first major, but also because her dad Wayne caddied for her that week. A superb final round of five-under-par featured numerous highlights, and Georgia was the first British winner of the event since Catriona Matthew clinched the title at the same venue in 2009.

Georgia, who began playing golf aged seven after her dad took her to a driving range near their Bournemouth home, doubled her LPGA win tally when she triumphed in the Cambio Portland Classic in 2020. The three-time European Solheim Cup player is a two-time Ladies European Tour order of merit winner, in 2017 and 2018. Georgia lost to Celine Boutier on the first extra hole of a play-off in the LPGA Drive On Championship in March 2023.

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Alexa Brabec, Women’s Nordic Combined Is Not An Olympic Sport...Ep193

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:30:00 -0000

Alexa Brabec grew up in Steamboat Springs, CO where she trained with the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club. In 2020, she qualified for the US National Team for the first time. After graduating high school, Alexa moved to Lillehammer, Norway to train with the Norwegian Team as a part of a partnership between the US and Norwegian Teams. She competed in the first women's Nordic Combined World Cup in 2020 in Ramsau, Austria, the first Youth Olympic Games for women's Nordic Combined in 2020 in Laussane, Switzerland, and the first World Championships for women's Nordic Combined in 2021 in Oberstdorf, Germany.

Some highlights of her career are winning two silver medals at the 2024 Junior World Championships in the Individual and Women's Team Event, which were the first US women's Nordic Combined medals at Junior Worlds, a 4th place finish in the 2025 Seefeld Triple World Cup, a 4th place finish at the 2025 World Championships in Trondheim, Norway, which is also the best US women's Nordic Combined finish at World Championships, and finishing the 2024/25 World Cup season ranked 9th in the world.

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Staci Mannella, Paralympian, Mental Health Performance PhD Student...Ep192

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:30:00 -0000

In the episode host Elizabeth Emery speaks with Staci Mannella about ski racing legally blind with a guide, training for effective communication, why working with a counselor as an athlete is great idea, and why and how sport has been so important in her life, plus where it is leading her now.

Staci Mannella is a third year Ball State University PhD. student in counseling psychology with a focus on sport and performance. She is a mental health therapist and mental performance consultant in training at SKADI Sport Psychology. Drawing from her journey as a visually impaired Paralympic skier at the Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Games, Staci brings a unique blend of firsthand experience and academic rigor to her clinical work and research. Staci's academic journey, including a Bachelor of Arts at Dartmouth College, a Master's of Science from the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, and a Masters of Arts in Counseling from Ball State University, underscores her commitment to evidence-based practice. Her ability to produce, consume, and apply sport psychology research ensures that her clients receive the most effective strategies for optimizing their performance. When she’s not supporting the performance and wellbeing of athletes, Staci enjoys staying active herself! She loves hiking, skiing, spending time with her animals, and enjoying the outdoors.

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Megan Jastrab, La Vuelta Femenina, a cycling grand tour...Ep191

Thu, 29 May 2025 08:30:00 -0000

In 2017, Megan Jastrab was an early guest on Hear Her Sports. She was 15 years old then and just, barely just, imagining her future cycling career. She is now a pro racer with Team Picnic PostNL. She’s also an Olympic medalist and three time Junior World Champion. !!!

In this episode, host Elizabeth catches up with Megan and hears about her recent experiences at La Vuelta Femenina, one of the three women’s stage races called grand tours. Megan shares her thoughts about if La Vuelta should be called a grand tour, growth of women’s cycling since she started, living in Europe, and her love of bike racing despite the rain and crashes.

Megan began riding bikes with her brother Ryan at the age of eleven in her hometown of California. Two years later she competed in her first race, and by the age of seventeen, Megan was Junior World Champion in not only the road race but both the madison and omnium on the track. Hungry for more, Megan joined the national track team and came away from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a Bronze medal in her first ever elite team pursuit, at the ripe old age of 19.
Megan earned a double degree in Exercise Science and Business graduated from Milligan University. She now races full-time, based out of Sittard in Holland.
Be sure to listen to her early episode (Ep18) because it’s still applicable to youngsters wanting to get into the sport.

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Karen Heintz, Starting Point Guard Houston Angels, Women's Basketball League (WBL)...Ep190

Thu, 15 May 2025 08:30:00 -0000

This week host Elizabeth Emery is talking to Karen Heintz, a starting point guard, with the Houston Angels of the Women’s Basketball League (WBL), which was founded in 1978. In that inaugural year of the league, the Angels won the Championship over the Iowa Cornets.

Before playing with the Angels, Karen walked onto Texas A&M in 1974, then transferred to Baylor as a sophomore. She is still in the record books at both schools in rebounding and scoring. Karen is also one of the early female athletes to receive an athletic college scholarship.

In the episode, Karen tells all those stories and we’ll hear what it was like to play in the WBL, Karen’s memories from those days, what she was paid, plus her thoughts on the current momentum in women’s sports. We also talk about coaching because Karen has been teaching and coaching for 47 years. She was a head coach for 34 years, winning 797 games, multiple Regional Finals, and District Championships.

Karen still plays basketball competitively with the Connecticut Classics, an exceptional 50+ team. They regularly win National Senior Games championships.

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Francesca Clapcich, Offshore Sailor, Preparing for Vendee Globe...Ep189

Thu, 01 May 2025 08:30:00 -0000

Francesca Clapcich was born in Trieste, Italy and now lives in Park City, Utah with her wife (former Olympic and round-the-world sailor, Sally Barkow) and daughter, Harriet.

In our conversation, Francesca explains sailing, what it’s like to be out on the ocean with dolphins and other wildlife. Then tells tales of the physical and mental preparations for the 2028 Vendee Globe, kid sports in Italy, building a diverse team, belief in yourself, belonging, and being a mom athlete. Our conversation couldn’t have been more full and wonderful.

Francesca has twice represented Italy at the Olympic Games, is a World Champion, European Champion, Italian Sailor of the Year. In 2023, competing with 11th Hour Racing Team, she became the first Italian to win The Ocean Race, the world’s longest and toughest team sporting event. Francesca is also the first female Italian to compete in the notoriously challenging Solitaire du Figaro, a solo multi-stage sprint around the coastline of France,. There she was presented with the Fighting Spirit award.
After studying nautical construction in high school, Francesca went on to earn a degree in sports science at San Raffaele University in Rome, with a thesis on Olympic Performance.

She then joined the Italian Air Force in their elite athlete program, where she served for nine years, finishing as a Senior Airman.

Beyond sailing, Francesca stays active in Park City. She is a qualified ski instructor, a CrossFit and weight-lifting coach, and she volunteers as an Emergency Medical Technician in her community for youth events. Francesca sits on the board of the Park City Task Force, advocating for LGBTQ+ rights in the community, building programs and events to expand the outreach of the organization, creating a safe place and access to support resources, sport and the outdoors for everyone in the region.

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Danette Leighton, CEO Women’s Sports Foundation, Play to Lead...Ep188

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:30:00 -0000

Danette Leighton is a 30-year sports industry and corporate executive with experience serving both men’s and women’s professional and collegiate sports leagues and teams. Since March of 2022, Leighton has led the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) as CEO, joining the 51-year-old organization, founded by Billie Jean King in 1974.

Leighton was most recently chief marketing officer at the Pac-12 Conference. Prior to her nearly 12 years with the Pac-12, Leighton was with Maloof Sports & Entertainment’s NBA Sacramento Kings as vice president of marketing and brand development, as well as vice president of business operations for the WNBA Monarchs, where she led the business of the World Championship-winning WNBA franchise. She also previously worked for Sony and managed their sponsorship of the PGA Tour’s Sony Open in Hawaii and was Stanford University’s executive director of the 1999 NCAA Women’s Final Four.

A graduate of the University of Arizona, she was named a Game Changer by Sports Business Journal and recognized for her innovation and excellence by Media Inc. She currently serves as a member of Women Leaders in College Sports Board of Directors.

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Narcisse Jordan, Women’s Elite Rugby Chicago Tempest Player...Ep187

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 08:30:00 -0000

Narcisse Jordan is a passionate artist, dedicated athlete, and advocate for women in sports. She currently plays for the USA Rugby League team and is a member of the new Women’s Elite Rugby professional team Chicago Tempest. Beyond her athletic achievements, she is a devoted mother who inspires others to pursue their passions on and off the field.

As the founder of Mom You Play, a platform designed to empower and uplift mothers in sports, Narcisse is committed to challenging stereotypes and highlighting the stories of women who balance motherhood and competitive sports. Through her advocacy, she aims to create a supportive community that celebrates the strength and resilience of sports moms at every level.

Her work as an artist adds another layer to her storytelling, blending creativity with her love for sport. Whether she’s creating on the canvas or making big tackles on the pitch, her message is clear: women – especially mothers – belong in sport, and they belong at every level.

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Lynn Holzman, NCAA Vice President of Women’s Basketball…Ep170

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:30:00 -0000

Lynn Holzman returned to the NCAA in February 2018 as the vice president of women’s basketball. She is responsible for the strategic direction, oversight, operations, and management of women’s basketball in Divisions I, II and III. She serves as the primary liaison to the women’s basketball committees and provides strategic oversight of the site-selection process for each championship. In 2014, Holzman was appointed commissioner of the West Coast Conference after serving in various leadership roles within the conference office, including executive senior associate commissioner/chief operating officer and senior associate commissioner of governance and administration. Before her conference office tenure, she worked at the NCAA national office for 16 years, last serving as a director of academic and membership affairs.

Holzman serves on various Boards, such as the Board of Directors of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, Kay Yow Cancer Fund and Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. She has also served on numerous other Boards such as Women Leaders in College Sports, San Jose Sports Authority, National Association for Athletics Compliance and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Center for Research in Intercollegiate Athletics.

Holzman earned her Bachelor of Science and secondary major degrees at Kansas State University where she was captain of the women's basketball team and a three-time Academic All-Big Eight Team member. She also earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a Master of Business Administration from Purdue University.

Lynn discusses with host Elizabeth Emery some changes coming up in the March Madness site-selection process, how she ended up working on the administrative side of sports, consequences of the pandemic on women’s sports, the importance of sport for player and fans, the NCAA equity report that came out after Sedona Prince’s weight room TikTok in 2021, and being a natural introvert but learning how to use her voice.

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Molly Huddle, 2x Olympian, Long Distance Runner, Author...Ep186

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:30:00 -0000

2x Olympian, Molly Huddle is an American long-distance runner who competes in track and cross-country running events. She is currently pregnant with her second child. She has won twenty-eight USA titles, held six American records, looked down the start line of two Olympic finals, and run four major marathons. Huddle set the American record in the 5,000 meters at the 2014 Herculis Diamond League meet in Fontvieille, Monaco (14:42.64). She also set the American record in the 10,000 meters at the 2016 Olympics (30:13.17). Huddle lives and trains in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Favor Anyanwu, Collegiate & Team USA Volleyball Middle Blocker...Ep185

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:30:00 -0000

Favor Anyanwu talks with host Elizabeth Emery about coming from behind in the U19 World Championships, details of being part of USA Volleyball, transferring from USC to SMU after a semester, opportunities in sport, and tips for success. This episode is a terrific insight into being an elite athlete as a college student and what comes next.

Favor is a standout volleyball player at Southern Methodist University (SMU) and a key contributor to the team’s success. Known for her dedication and athleticism, she excels both on and off the court. Favor is also passionate about dentistry and aspires to make a positive impact in the field of oral health. Her drive and well-rounded focus inspire others to pursue their goals with discipline and ambition.

Favor’s successes include being Under Armour All-American, USA Volleyball All-Star Team member, Dallas Star News First Team and Middle Blocker of the Year, and American Volleyball Coaches Association Phenom selection, and a member of the USA U19 Gold Medalist team at the World Championships.

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Rebecca McConville, Sports Dietitian & RED-S Expert...Ep184

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 09:30:00 -0000

Rebecca McConville is a board certified sports specialist and IAEDP approved eating disorder supervisor. She is an internationally recognized expert on REDs (relative energy deficiency) authoring the book Finding Your Sweet Spot - how to avoid REDs. The updated version will be released in 2025. She also created the first of its kind REDs informed provider certification program for clinicians. IN this fascinating discussion excellent for athletes, coaches, parents, and other sport team staff members, Rebecca discusses with host Elizabeth Emery about what happens in the body when underfueled, what recovery takes, and how to look for physical, nutritional, and psychological reasons for underfueling.

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Veronica Ewers, Professional Cyclist Recovering from RED-S...Ep183

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 09:30:00 -0000

Professional cyclist Veronica Ewers is from a small town in the United States and currently lives and trains in Girona, Spain. Since she began her pro career in 2021, she has raced to stellar results, especially in stage races. Just a few examples are a 4th overall in the Giro d’Italia, 9th overall in the Tour de France Femme avec Zwift, and 1st overall in the Classica Feminina Navarra.

Veronica decided to take a break from racing to recover from RED-S and works hard to be transparent about that journey as well as mental health. Veronica is looking to come back strong in 2025 with her team EF Education-Oatly and to see exactly what kind of rider she can be.

Veronica explains how all that is going, what taking time off was like, struggles, goals, and where she has improved her fueling habits.

We also talk about women’s racing right now, team chefs (and all the other staff at stage races), eating on tour, lifting heavy, measuring food –or NOT, and the cruelty of RED-S.

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Erin Ayala, Sports Psychologist. Show Up As the Best Version of Yourself...Ep182

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 09:30:00 -0000

Sports Psychologist Dr. Erin Ayala joins host Elizabeth Emery to discuss the struggles of being a woman involved in male-dominated sports, athlete identity, gravel racing, being prepared to compete, nerves, anxiety, racing with confidence, the pain cave, performance slumps, different types of goals and how they work, plus since it’s the new year, resolutions.

With over a decade of research and clinical experience, Dr. Erin Ayala is a Licensed Psychologist and Certified Mental Performance Consultant based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is the founder of Skadi Sport Psychology, a mission driven sport psychology practice that specializes in working with girls, women, and non-binary endurance athletes. Dr. Ayala is a published author of over 20 research articles and book chapters, and has been featured in Trailrunner Magazine, the New York Times, and other media outlets. Beyond her professional achievements, she is an accomplished endurance athlete, a lover of spreadsheets, and is likely reading 12+ books at any given time.

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Katie Holmes, Women’s Running History: Breaking the Rules...Ep181

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 09:30:00 -0000

This week on Hear Her Sports is writer and runner Katie Holmes. Katie is currently researching and writing a book on Women’s running history with a focus on women who break the rules. Katie is also interested in and researches older women runners, like herself. You can read more about running as an older woman on her blog Run Young 50.

In the episode, Katie and host Elizabeth Emery talk about discovering her competitive side through running, being an older female athlete, the discussions she’s having with a bunch of older, fast, British female runners who made their mark in running history, the importance of history, and her upcoming book due to be published by Bloomsbury Sport in 2026.

Katie Holmes lives in Nottingham, UK. She started her RunYoung50 blog in 2014 because she wanted to share the stories of female runners over 50 and highlight their achievements. In 2020 Katie was awarded an Independent Researcher Fellowship by the Women's History Network towards her research into Scottish distance running pioneer Dale Greig.

Katie is a member of the British Society of Sports History and has presented at two BSSH annual conferences. In 2022, she was awarded the Society’s Sporting Inequities Prize for outstanding work in an under-researched area – for her conference paper “The Reluctant Bride” (on the governance of women’s athletics in the UK in the 1970s).

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Melissa Alves, Pro Squash player on not being small...Ep180

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 09:30:00 -0000

In this episode of the Hear Her Sports podcast, host Elizabeth Emery sits down with professional squash player Melissa Alves. Despite facing early-season injuries, Melissa has had a remarkable year including a well-deserved victory at the Cape Town Squash Open in late November.

The episode delves into Melissa's journey, from her early days on the court to her collegiate career at the University of Pennsylvania. She discusses the challenges and rewards of transitioning from a top collegiate player to a professional athlete.

Melissa discusses her wrist injury and the subsequent adaptation of her playing style. She shares her inspiring story of resilience and innovation, demonstrating how necessity can drive significant changes in technique and performance.

Additionally, the episode explores Melissa's training regimen, including her off-season cycling routine, and her passion for culinary arts. She also discusses the mental aspects of the sport, emphasizing the importance of self-belief and taking up space on the court.

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Elizabeth Holden, Author of Roller Derby YA Novel, Mighty Millie Novak...Ep179

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 09:30:00 -0000

Elizabeth Holden is a writer, a physics teacher, a travel company owner, an X-Files podcast host, and an avid roller derby player. Her debut novel, Mighty Millie Novak, was released by Flux Books in 2024. She believes the ideal conditions in which to write a novel are in the dining car of a train traveling through the Alps, with a pot of tea beside you -- though she does most of her writing at her home in Wisconsin.

Like Millie, Elizabeth Holden is an avid roller derby player, a blocker with Madison Roller Derby since 2015. Liz’s league-mates know her as Auntie Matter; her derby name is a reference to her job teaching college physics. (And, yes, she is also an aunt. Hi, William and Hugo!) When not busy writing, playing derby, or teaching, Liz is most likely leading international trips with her company, Leaping Hound Travel. Liz also co-hosts an X-Files podcast, We Want to Believe, with her sister. Liz’s tattoos are vibrant and numerous, her laugh is loud, and her heart belongs to her pet greyhounds. Learn more about her at elizabeth-holden.com.

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Natasha Camy, NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Referee...Ep178

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 09:30:00 -0000

Natasha Camy is an NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Referee now in her 14th season. She has officiated at the very top level, including in the 2024 Elite 8 game featuring LSU and Iowa, the most watched women’s basketball game in history! She has also officiated in the Conference USA championship, Big 10 conference playoffs, Big 10 final, SEC conference playoffs, WNIT final, WBIT quarterfinal and final.

In the episode, Natasha shares with host Elizabeth Emery about how she prepares for games, nerves, cute interactions with players, and how things have changed in the fourteen years she’s been oficiating.

Beyond her own officiating career, Natasha is helping others grow in the profession. She founded and runs Referee Ready Academy, a holistic referee development training program.

In January 2024 she was announced as an investor for the Cape Town Tigers, a South African basketball club belonging to The Basketball Africa League (BAL); founded by the National Basketball Association (NBA) and

International Basketball Federation (FIBA); making her one of the first African American women to do so. The investment deems Camy one of the only African American women to invest in a BAL team.

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Corrine Leistikow Started Endurance Bikepacking At 50 Years Old…Ep177

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 08:30:00 -0000

Corrine Leistikow is a 65 year old family physician living in Fairbanks, Alaska. Her passion is being physically active outdoors. She started doing endurance biking and skiing events at age 50, when her children became teenagers. She continues to push her limits as an older athlete.

Corrine tells host Elizabeth Emery about her adventures, pushing ourselves as older athletes, staying, why more older women don’t do endurance bikepacking, strength training, her own severe stomach issues while racing, and hostess donuts.

Corrine’s first event was the Fireweed 200. Since then she has done the Leadville 100 mountain bike race, White Mountain 100 -- twice on skis and once on a fat bike, the Smoke N Fire 400, BC Epic 100, Tour Divide (a 2700-mile bikepacking race from Banff, Canada to the Mexico Border in New Mexico), the 700 mile Trans South Dakota, and 700 mile Cross Washington. And she has tried twice to finish the 350 mile Unbound Gravel XL.

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Iris Slappendel Le Tour de France Femmes Eurosport Analyst…Ep176

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:30:00 -0000

In this episode, Iris Slappendel shares with host Elizabeth Emery stories of all things Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift. Iris is a commentator and reporter for Eurosport and is an expert source about the women’s peleton, teams, politics, and racing tactics.

Iris raced professionally for 12 years with much success including a Dutch national road race title in 2014. After retiring at the end of 2016, Iris launched her own apparel brand called I R I S, her first name but also an abbreviation of ‘I Ride In Style’. Being educated as a product designer and having the experience of being a pro cyclist, Iris designs all products from start to finish, having complete control over the materials, the fit and the design.

Bold, fearless and colorful, I R I S is for anybody and everybody that wants to express their own personality on the bike and most importantly have fun with every ride. Her products address the specific needs of female cyclists.

Iris co-founded and is now executive director of The Cyclists’ Alliance (TCA), an organization that supports women pro cyclists and campaigns to improve their working conditions.

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Katie Moon, Real Confidence…Bonus

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 08:30:00 -0000

Katie Moon is two time World Champion and a two time Olympic medalist. At the Tokyo Olympics she won a gold medal and in Paris 2024 she won silver. Katie graduated from Olmsted Falls High School where she started her pole vaulting career. She returned there this summer to host the inaugural Katie Moon Pole Vault Classic. She went to the University of Dayton and then transferred to Ashland University, where she won two NCAA Division II national titles.

Learn more about Katie in Hear Her Sports Episode 14, in which she talks about body image, nutrition, poles, and how she got started. She also talked to host Elizabeth Emery during Covid about how tough it was to train and recently in another bonus episode about being a gluten free athlete.

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Katie Moon, Becoming A Gluten Free Pole Vaulter…Bonus

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:30:00 -0000

In this Bonus episode Katie explains how she discovered she was celiac, how she has managed being gluten free as a professional athlete, and she shares some tips, favorite foods, and apps.

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Catherine Davila on Casual FC Angel City NWSL Soccer Podcast...Bonus

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:30:00 -0000

This is a bonus episode of a cross posting of a Casual FC podcast episode featuring a deep dive into the world of Angel City FC, with discussions on its unique charm, importance of community, inclusivity, and fan culture. The discussion, involving Catherine Dávila from the Angel City front office, covers her diverse career journey and underlines the integral role of the community in shaping the team's identity and activities. The podcast sheds light on the milestones, outreach efforts, and the balance between being a business and driving social good, with an outlook on deepening community engagement for the third season. It also explores the evolution of professional women's soccer in LA, the impact of fan culture and exciting expectations for the upcoming season.

The Casual FC hosts are:

Mario Salazar is a born and bred Angelino who grew up playing soccer. Although of the two Casual FC hosts, he has the "most experience" on the pitch, he still is the soccer "Casual" of the podcast. Eager to learn about the NWSL and the larger arena of the Women's Soccer world, he brings the curiosity that both he and Angela hope the audience brings. Mario often can be found attending both mens and womens soccer in LA. Sometimes he brings his two kids and wife.

Angela Morales is a born and bred Angelino who has worn sports equipment since before she could walk. An accomplished athlete she brings the "Expert" to the podcast. Her knowledge of players, tactics and sports psychology is no accident as she holds a Masters in Sports Psychology from PennWest University. You will likely find her at live music shows all over LA when she’s not at a soccer game.

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Amanda Sobhy, Squash Pro Recovering from Achilles Rupture…Ep175

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 08:30:00 -0000

Amanda Sobhy is the highest ranked American born squash player ever. She is the first US player to win a world championship title, which she did on her 17th birthday at the 2010 world junior championships. She graduated from Harvard University in 2015 with a remarkable 62-0 undefeated college career, three team titles, and four individual titles.

As a professional squash player, Amanda reached a career high of world No. 3 in 2021, making her the first American player ever to crack the top 3 in the world rankings. She has captured twenty titles on the PSA World Tour, and has won six US Women’s National titles. Amanda represented Team USA in three Pan-American Games (winning seven gold medals and two silver medals). She also represented Team USA in five World Team Championships.

Outside of the squash court, Amanda is an inspirational speaker who uses her story about overcoming adversity and setbacks as a professional athlete to inspire others. Amanda ruptured her left Achilles in 2017 and her right achilles in late 2023. Amanda also spent a decade struggling privately with an eating disorder.

Amanda serves on the board of the Professional Squash Association, Squash & Education Alliance, and USSquash, and is an ambassador for the recently launched USSquash Foundation.

In the episode, Amanda talks to Hear Her Sports host Elizabeth Emery about her experiences with injury, recovery, rehab, and maintaining her mental strength.

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Adeline Audigier + Patricia Mehlich + Roseva Bidois. Women’s Decathlon World Championships Report…Ep174

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 08:30:00 -0000

In the episode, decathletes Adeline Audigier, Patricia Mehlich, and Roséva Bidois who all represent Team France tell host Elizabeth Emery what it was like to compete in the inaugural Women’s Decathlon World Championships that took place in Geneva, Ohio at Spire Academy on August 3rd and 4th, 2024. These championships were historic and a big step towards achieving their goal of bringing the women’s decathlon to the LA Olympics in 2028 as an exhibition sport. Tune into the previous Hear Her Sports episode to learn more about their fight to do so and why decathlon is the sport for the complete athlete.

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Adeline Audigier + Patricia Mehlich, Women’s Decathlon World Championship…Ep173

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:30:00 -0000

Adeline Audigier was born in the city of Marseille in the South of France. She is about to turn 32 and is living her second athletic life as a decathlete. Before turning to decathlon, she was a heptathlete. She grew up in a sporty family. She and her brother and sister do dozens of sports.

She has a degree in EHS (Environment, Health, Safety) engineering, was a professional firefighter, and is now a shipboard firefighter trainer.

Adeline embodies the multi-sport life: absolutely everything interests her and she wants to try it all. “My biggest problem is that I won't have enough life to do everything I want.”

When she was 30 she began the decathlon project, which allows her to help her sport that has always offered her great things. For her, it’s important to contribute to the development of the sport by correcting the oversight that stalled the evolution of the heptathlon into the completed version of multisport events, the decathlon.

Patricia Mehlich is German but has been living in France for about 10 years. She works as a chartered accountant. Like Adeline, Patricia is a multi-eventer on and off track. She enjoys playing the piano, reading, and writing books, crocheting/knitting, and gardening.

In the decathlon, her best event is the 100 meter hurdles, but she stresses that she’s not exceptional anywhere. Patricia is dedicated to the decathlon project, so girls don’t have to miss out on the pole vault, discus, and 1500m like she did.

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Gabriela Leon, Team USA, Professional Pole Vaulter…Ep172

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 08:30:00 -0000

Pole Vaulter Gabi Leon was one of the most successful student-athletes in the history of University of Louisville.

She competed for the Cardinals from 2017 to 2022, finishing her career as the program record holder in both the indoor and outdoor women's pole vault. During her time competing for Louisville, Gabi was a four-time NCAA All-American, won two individual ACC championships, was recognized as All-ACC seven times, and earned USTFCCCA All-Academic distinction twice while receiving All-ACC Academic honors four times.

In 2022 Gabi won the NCAA outdoor National Championships. That year she also won numerous awards including USTFCCCA Outdoor Southeast Region Women's Field Athlete of the Year, ACC Female Outdoor Field Scholar Athlete of the Year, and ACC Track & Field Female Scholar Athlete of the Year

When she graduated, Gabi became a professional athlete sponsored by Puma. At the 2022 USATF Outdoor Championships she placed 4th earning her a spot on Team USA for the World Championships, where she place 12th.

Gabi’s indoor personal best is 4.70 which she did this past February at the USA indoor track and Field Championships, earning her a bronze medal in the competition. Her outdoor PB is 4.62, which she achieved in July 2024 at Hengalo, Netherlands.

In addition to talking about the Olympic Trials & the Katie Moon Pole Vault Classic, Gabi shared a very cool story about calf cramps, mastering the mental aspect of sport, initially being scared of pole vaulting, the importance of a varied diet and nutrition in general, and supporting herself as a pro athlete.

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Mechelle Freeman, USA National Teams Head Women’s Relays Coach …Ep171

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 08:30:00 -0000

Mechelle Lewis Freeman is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, where she earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Mass Communications. At USC, she was a member of the 2002 Women’s Outdoor Track & Field team who, brought the first National Championship in any sport to the university.

After a successful marketing career, she transitioned back to an athlete to pursue her childhood dream of becoming an Olympic athlete. Mechelle is a Track & Field 2007 Pan American Double Silver Medalist, 2007 World Champion, and 2008 Olympian. Her events included the 100 meters and the 4×100 meter relay.

Mechelle serves as Head Women’s Relays Coach for USA Track & Field National Teams, achieving gold medal successes at the 2020 Olympics and the 2022 & 2023 World Championships.

In 2015, Mechelle founded TrackGirlz, a national nonprofit that provides access to track and field to middle-school and high-school girls. She is an active coach for the organization.

In their 2022-23 season, over 200 girls were empowered through the TrackGirlz workshops and events. They awarded $40,000 through a grant program that supports girls’ participation in track and field in their local communities. TrackGirlz also provided to girls over 50 direct mentorship opportunities with world class women track and field athletes, coaches, and influencers.

Mechelle discusses with host Elizabeth Emery the selection process for the US Women’s relay teams, the qualities of each leg of the race, creating chemistry in the team, the value of every role on the team, the hardest part of her job, what she’s looking forward to in Paris, and her organization TrackGrilz.

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Lynn Holzman, NCAA Vice President of Women’s Basketball…Ep170

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:30:00 -0000

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Annie Villareal Ripped Grandma, Personal Trainer for 60+…Ep169

Thu, 30 May 2024 08:30:00 -0000

Annie Villareal, the vibrant force behind the Rippedgrandma brand, is not your typical personal trainer. With a background in pharmaceutical sales, Annie took a leap of faith 17 years ago, embarking on a journey of personal reinvention. Inspired by her love for sports and movement, she shed 60 pounds, rediscovered her passion for running, and even completed the Big Sur Marathon at the age of 50.

Annie's fitness journey didn't stop there. Armed with a diverse fitness background including yoga, Pilates, strength training, and more, she became a beacon of inspiration for those seeking a functional and holistic approach to fitness. Her training philosophy is rooted in post-rehab work, specializing in shoulders, hips, and low back issues—the "big 3" as she calls them. In 2019, just before the global pandemic hit, Annie created a space dedicated to keeping aging adults strong and fully functional. Now, Annie's average client age is 75.

Beyond the gym, Annie found solace and passion in outrigger canoeing, fostering a sense of family and competition. Her mantra, encapsulated in the Hawaiian word "Imua," reflects her commitment to moving forward with strength, grace, and a touch of fun.

Annie Villareal is not just a personal trainer; she's a testament to the transformative power of embracing movement and competition at every stage of life.

Topics Annie shares with Elizabeth include how becoming active again was not an easy or quick transition, the importance of moving move every day, working with older clients, ways to improve balance, lifting weight that challenges you, Annie’s 15-minute strength workouts, rucking, and her love of outrigger canoeing.

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Vanese Barnes, Tufts Women’s Basketball Assistant Coach…Ep168

Thu, 16 May 2024 08:30:00 -0000

Vanese Barnes is a 2023 Women’s Sports Foundation Tara VanDerveer fellow with Tufts University Women’s Basketball team. At the same time Vanese was a part of a two-year Future Leaders Fellowship program at Tufts, where she earned her master's degree in Diversity and Inclusion Leadership within the Tufts Graduate School of Arts & Sciences in addition to her coaching duties.

In 2019, Vanese earned a degree in elementary education at St. Joseph's College in Maine, where she was a member of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference championship team. She also played at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland, Maine and was captain of the team and selected as a United States Collegiate Athletic Association Academic All-American.

For four seasons after graduating from college, Vanese was an assistant coach for Southern Maine Community College, where she temporarily took over the lead role while the head coach was out on maternity leave. She was also a varsity assistant and the junior varsity head coach at Portland High School for a year. She has also participated in a number of professional development opportunities in recent years, including being a member of the Maine Women's Basketball Coaches Development Series since 2020.

Vanese joins Elizabeth Emery to talk about the NCAA Final Four weekend in Cleveland, the terrific Women’s Sports Foundation panel she was on, the Tara VanDerveer Fellowship, confidence, imposter syndrome, aggression, controlling emotions, her identity as a mixed-race woman, representation, women’s coaching now, burnout, and Dawn Staley.

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Mary Ellen Kelly, Sports Dietitian WNBA’s NY Liberty…Ep167

Thu, 02 May 2024 08:30:00 -0000

Mary Ellen Kelly is credentialed as a registered dietitian and board-certified sports dietitian. She holds a Bachelor of Science in nutrition from Boston University, where she was a 4-year member of the NCAA Division 1 varsity women’s track and field team. She earned her master’s degree in clinical nutrition from New York University and completed her clinical training at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Bronx, New York.

Mary Ellen is the Manager of the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association Sports Nutrition Immersion Program fellowship. She is also currently an Adjunct Faculty for Boston University and has previously served as an Adjunct Professor at Bloomsburg University and online Adjunct Faculty at Drexel University. In 2014 she was hired into a full-time team dietitian role in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins and worked with them for over three years. Mary Ellen was the Head Sports Nutritionist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and prior to UNC, she served as the Campus Dietitian/Sports Nutritionist at St. John’s University in Queens, NY. She began her career as a staff dietitian at the JJPVA.

In 2018 Mary Ellen Kelly founded Fuel Forward, private practice and nutrition consulting business offering nutrition-related speaking, writing, consulting, and coaching for groups and individuals. Current or former clients include but are not limited to: Baylor University, Bloomsburg University, Boston College Varsity Women’s Lacrosse and Field Hockey, Boston University, Golf Mind & Body, LaSalle University, New York Liberty (WNBA), North Coast Seafood, Trimsarter.com, University of Delaware, USA Lacrosse.

In the episode Mary Ellen and I discuss her work with Liberty, being a vegan athlete, importance of getting enough protein and fiber, why nutrition is both simple and complicated, essentials of fueling adequately, and high school, collegiate, and aging athletes.

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AJ Hurt Alpine Ski Racer, Balancing Speed…Ep166

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:30:00 -0000

AJ Hurt's passion for skiing and ski racing began at a very early age. Growing up in North Lake Tahoe, Palisades Tahoe was her winter playground. At four years old, she entered the Team Palisades Tahoe and fell in love with the sport. With a father who has been a member of the Squaw Valley Ski Patrol for the past 30 years, Hurt was raised a true member of the Palisades Tahoe (formerly Squaw Valley) family.

At 14, Hurt was invited to be a part of the National Training Group. As a first-year FIS racer in the 2016-17 season, she was the top junior for birth year 2000 in NorAm qualifying race points—not only in the speed disciplines but also the technical disciplines. Hurt scored her first World Cup points in 2020 placing 18th in the Courchevel giant slalom.

The 2023-24 season was a major breakout year for Hurt. Each World Cup race she improved upon the last scoring person best after person best. In Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Hurt had a major slalom result scoring third place, her first ever World Cup podium. Then later in the season she did it again! This time in giant slalom, a third place in Soldeu, Andorra.

AJ and I discuss injury, going fast, control and lack of control, the recent NCAA women’s final four, and what aggression in women’s sports looks like now. And she talks about the not-glamourous, living-out-of-a-bag-for-6-months World Cup tour.

This episode is a perfect follow up to last week’s episode with rock climber Beth Rodden because AJ too likes being in the mode of figuring things out, which she was happy to share with us. I like that mode as well! Always looking for a little bit of improvement or some greater understanding of how things work.

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Beth Rodden A Light through the Cracks A Climber’s Story…Ep165

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 08:30:00 -0000

Beth Rodden is one of the best female rock climbers of all time, and a globally recognized ambassador for the outdoor community. She has achieved a number of notable free climbs on El Capitan, the 3,000-foot monolith in Yosemite National Park, and has also established the hardest first ascent of a crack climb ever done by a woman. She has been climbing for thirty years, and she hopes to be climbing for thirty more. She lives with her family in California. For more information, visit: bethrodden.com.

In our conversation, Beth speaks to me about the book, climbing, of seeing strength in young female rock climbers, REDs, the beauty of sports, and she compares climbing to golf and writing.

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Sydney Palmer-Leger Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Falun, Sweden 2024

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:30:00 -0000

Sydney Palmer-Leger is one of the young cross country ski racers on the US National B team. She made a quick trip to Falun, Sweden for the season finale, where she skied to her best-ever World Cup result -- a 23rd place. Right before Falun, Sydney capped off a stellar collegiate career with a victory at the NCAA National Championships in Steamboat, Springs Colorado.

Sydney is a three-time NCAA National Champion, was a member of the 2020 Junior World Championship Silver Medal Relay Team and is a 40k classic U.S. National Champion. In 2023, she represented the USA at the 2023 World Championships in Planica, Slovenia, placing 20th in the skiathlon. Sydney is part of an exciting-to-follow, strong class of skiers climbing up the ranks and representing her nation at the top level.

Before she decided to focus exclusively on ski racing (which we talk about in the episode), Sydney also raced mountain bikes. In fact, she is a five-time US Mountain Bike National Champion.

In the episode Sydney discusses some tactics in the 20-kilometer Freestyle race in Falun, starting in the back, the US National Team camp in Bend Oregon, and traveling as a vegan. On the academic side, Sydney is set to graduate from the University of Utah in May of 2024. She also shares what’s next for her post college and about her goals for the 2024-25 season.

Outside of skiing, she enjoys acrylic painting, baking, rock climbing, and finding the best vegan recipes, as she has been a vegetarian her entire life and a vegan for 12 years.

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Kendra Coleman Pro USA Track & Field Athlete Preps for 800m Olympic Trials…Ep164

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 08:00:00 -0000

Kendra Coleman is a professional track and field athlete sponsored by Oiselle. She is currently focused on the Olympic Track & Field Trials in Eugen, Oregon June 21-30, 2024, where she will compete in the 800. Her top accomplishments include her Highschool UIL State Championship in the 400 meters and a 9th place finish at 2016 Olympic Trials in the 800 meters.

Kendra is also the Senior Administrative Coordinator at The University of Texas where she producers Blackademics TV airing on PBS and facilitates grants for education under the black studies department. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Corporate Communications from The University of Texas and a master’s degree in Sports Management from Northcentral University. She has been involved in community relations and community service for over six years.

In addition to these activities, her other interests include advocacy for women in sports, sitting as an officer on the USATF Athletes Advisory’s Committee as the Director of Athlete Services and working with community organizations that serve student athletes. Her next goals are to find a career that allows me to use my passions and talents and also help others live better lives through my work with athletes, women in sports and athletes of color.

In the episode Kendra speaks with Elizabeth about her training in spectacular detail, visualizing big races, being competitive and friendly with her adversaries, preferring female coaches, her support team, and racing from a positive mindset.

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Julia Hayes Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Lahti, Finland & Oslo, Norway 2024

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 08:30:00 -0000

Ski Coach, Julia Hayes grew up skiing, running, cycling, climbing, and hiking in Frisco, Colorado. She attended and cross country ski raced for Montana State University, graduating with a degree in exercise physiology. She has been coaching with Bridger Ski Foundation for five years, where she works with high school/early college age skiers. In 2023, she earned the opportunity to coach at the Junior World Championships in Canada. For the 2024 season, Julia is one of 8 coaches named as Trail to Gold Coaching Fellows. Julia loves to mountain bike in the summers and spend all her free time with my husband and dogs outside.

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Wang Ping A Poet Rower Aging Actively as Part of Nature…Ep163

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 09:30:00 -0000

Wang Ping is a poet, writer, photographer, installation artist, founder and director of Kinship of Rivers project. Her multi-media exhibitions include “Kinship of Rivers: We Are Water,” “Behind the Gate: After the Flood of the Three Gorges,” and hundreds of other installation exhibitions at schools, colleges, galleries, museums, lock and dams, confluences around the world, including the interactive installations at the Everest (Tibet and Nepal sides) and Kilimanjaro.

Ping, Professor Emerita of English at Macalester College, has authored 15 award winning books of poetry, prose and translations. Her awards include Minnesota Book Award, Eugene Kagen, and Asian American Studies awards.

Ping is also a recipient of grants from the NEA, Bush Artist Fellowship for poetry, McKnight Fellowship and residencies through the Lannan Foundation Residency, Vermont Studio Center, and many others. She received Distinct Immigrant Award in 2014, Venezuela International Poet of Honor in 2015, and Minnesota Poet Laureate 2021-2023, appointed by International Beat Poetry Foundation.

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Leann Bentley, Cross Country Ski World Cup Race Report, Loppet Cup, Minneapolis, USA 2024

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 09:30:00 -0000

Leann Bentley is the Press Officer/Attaché for the Stifel U.S. Cross Country Ski Team and Communications Manager at U.S. Ski & Snowboard. Based in Park City, Utah, Leann has been with the team for almost two years and is inspired daily by the incredible athletes and staff, pushing her to keep raising the bar and doing what she can to elevate the sport and athletes to new levels. Originally from Wyoming, Leann finds happiness when outside in the mountains, whether it be skiing, running, biking, climbing, hiking – and loves a good, loud laugh.

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Kristen Bourne Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Goms, Switzerland 2024

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:30:00 -0000

Kristen Bourne has coached cross country skiing at the collegiate and professional level for the past four years. She was the assistant coach at The College of Saint Scholastica for two years where she was a 2021 Women’s Sports Foundation Tara VanDerveer Fellow. During the summer, she was an assistant coach with the Craftsbury Green Racing Project professional team in Vermont.

Prior to coaching, she skied for Northern Michigan University for five years, qualifying for the NCAA Championships three-times and representing the United States at the World Junior Championships and U23 World Championships in 2015 and 2016. After college, she moved to Oslo, Norway where she skied full-time and was an intern at the Norwegian School of Sports Science.

Currently, Kristen is the US Ski Cross Country D-Team World Cup coach at US Ski and Snowboard. She oversees the top junior and U23 athletes in the US as well as travels full-time on the World Cup supporting all national team athletes. She is also a graduate student at the College of Saint Scholastica studying Exercise Physiology.

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Madeline Depman Mountain Bike Racing After Pregnancy…Ep162

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 09:30:00 -0000

Madeline Depman is early on in her career as a professional mountain biker. She completed her first bike race when she was 16, which was her first introduction to being part of any competitive sport. Since then, she has been working hard to gain fitness and technical skills with the goal of being one of the best in the country. In 2021 she raced her first Cross Country Mountain Bike World Cup in Snowshoe, WV. In 2022 her daughter Ruth was born. Madeline started racing again in 2023 with a lighter schedule to give ample time for recovery but a 3rd place in the Ring of Fire (part of the NUE series) in Bend, OR was a notable post-partum result.

Outside of racing, Madeline is busy with a mobile 1 year old but is still very involved in her local cycling community as a coach and board member for Duluth Devo.

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Erin Bianco Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Oberhof, Germany 2024

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 09:30:00 -0000

Erin Bianco began skiing as a young kid in Ely, Minnesota, which is right on the Canadian border. Erin graduated with a sociology degree from Colby College in Maine. There, she was a leader on the Colby Mules cross country ski team under coach Tracey Cote. After college, Erin moved to Bozeman, Montana to train with the Bridger Ski Foundation (BSF) team under former U.S. Ski Team athlete and now coach, Andy Newell.

Erin Bianco finished her first World Cup in Oberhof, Germany with an impressive 35th in the classic sprint in 2024.

Outside of skiing, Erin loves to spend time at coffee shops, play badminton, piano, among many other things. For summer training, her go-to cross training workouts are either strength or road biking.

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Dr. Margo Mountjoy IOC Consensus Statement on Relative Energy Deficiency (REDs)…Ep161

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 09:30:00 -0000

Dr. Margo Mountjoy received her medical education and her family medicine training at McMaster University, Canada and her sports medicine specialty degree in Ottawa, Canada. Margo received her PhD from the VU University in Amsterdam. Margo was the medical and scientific lead at the Health & Performance Centre at the University of Guelph where she focused her practice on promoting elite athlete care. In addition, Margo has acted as the national team physician for Synchro Canada for 20 years as well as for the National Endurance Training Centre Athletes (middle- and long-distance track athletes) and the National Triathlon & Wrestling team training centers.

Margo is a Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Family Medicine in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada where she is the Dean of the Waterloo Regional Campus.

Margo is the Chair of the ASOIF Medical Consultative Group and a member of the IOC Medical Commission Games Group. She works with the following International Federations: FIFA, World Rugby, and the International Golf Federation. Margo’s areas of research focus on elite athlete health and well-being. She is the lead author of the IOC consensus statements on REDs.

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Jessie Diggins Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Tour de Ski 2024

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:30:00 -0000

Jessie Diggins grew up in Afton, Minnesota where she started skiing with her parents as a very young girl. Now she is one of the most dominant and successful cross country skiers in the world. Jessie is a three-time Olympic medalist, 2023 World Champion, 17x World Cup winner, and 2021 World Cup overall winner. She’s been a US Ski and Snowboard Team athlete since 2011 and joined her current club team, the Stratton Mountain School T2 Team in 2012. In her book, Brave Enough, Jessie tells the inside details of becoming and being an elite athlete. Jessie also partners with the Emily Program, Protect Our Winters, and Share Winter Foundation.

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Kristen Rozell Adventures in the Alaskan Wilderness…Ep160

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:30:00 -0000

Kristen Rozell moved to Fairbanks, Alaska in 1997. She now works for a private consulting firm as a wildlife biologist conducting nesting studies on geese and sea duck on the North Slope of Alaska. She’s also worked all over the state conducting breeding bird and migration surveys.

Kristen has been a cross country ski coach since 2004. She coaches a high school team, leads a training program for adults preparing for 50-kilometer skate-ski races, and teaches group and private lessons through the Fairbanks Nordic Ski Club.

Kristen is also a strong and active competitor. Over the years she has raced in five one-hundred-mile ski races, many local races from sprints to 50 kilometers. And, as you will hear in our conversation, she has done many multi-day backpack ski trips. In the show notes, I’ve listed some details of many of those. Kristen is also a stellar runner and has completed the Equinox marathon almost 20 times, placing second tow times.

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Novie McCabe Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Trondheim, Norway 2023

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 09:30:00 -0000

Novie McCabe is a cross country ski racer on the APU Ski Team and U.S. Ski Team. She started skiing with her family at a young age. Since then, she has excelled in the sport and is racing at the highest level. She attended the University of Utah to pursue her skiing goals while studying. Novie notably swept the 2023 NCAA Championships in Lake Placid, NY winning both classic and skate races. This impressive achievement among others led her to compete in the 2022 Olympics where she placed in the top ten in the 4x5k relay.

On the World Cup circuit, Novie is consistently in the mix, securing several top-30 results. Her best World Cup individual result goes back to the 2022 Tour de Ski in the final race - the Hill Climb. Known as one, if not the, hardest race on the Tour, Novie crossed the line in seventh.

Skiing runs in Novie’s family, as her mom was also a professional skier giving her a greater passion for the sport. When Novie is not competing, she can be found camping, backpacking, or trying new Trader Joe’s snacks.

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Sophia Laukli Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Ostersund, Sweden 2023

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 09:30:00 -0000

Sophia Laukli is a force in both skiing and running. A professional in both sports, Sophia is a University of Utah graduate, member of the 2020 silver-medal-winning Junior World Championships relay team, had her first FIS World Cup podium in the final stage of the 2022-23 Tour de Ski and is fluent in English, Norwegian and French. From her first World Cup start in Lahti, FIN in January 2021, Sophia has consistently been climbing the ranks. Since 2021, she has 10+ top-30 results - highlighted by a third-place finish in the hardest stage of the Tour de Ski in the final climb, finishing third. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Sophia finished within the top-20 in 15th place. Outside of skiing, she is a professional trail runner with Salomon and went on to win the overall in the prestigious Golden Trail Series world series. This 2023-24 season, her goals are to podium in the Tour de Ski, remain consistently in the top 20-30 on the FIS World Cup and compete on the full World Cup circuit.

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Race Report: Rosie Brennan Cross Country World Cup, Gallivare, Sweden 2023

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 09:30:00 -0000

Born and raised in Park City, Utah, Rosie Brennan is a four-time U.S. champion, 2018 and 2022 Olympian, and ranked in the top-10 in the world for cross country skiing.

Rosie is one of the strongest and most dominant athletes on the World Cup circuit. As she enters her 10th year on the national team, she has over 200 World Cup starts, nine podiums and two victories - she just landed on the podium TWICE in one-weekend and the 2023-24 FIS World Cup season-opener in Ruka, FIN. Even though she only started skiing when she was 14, her later-than-typical start never hindered her from finding success on the world stage.

Rosie has represented the USA at two Olympic games, starting in seven races. She was the first American to hold the overall World Cup leader's bib, World Cup sprint leader's bib and the World Cup distance leader's bib all at the same time - showing her versatility in distances and techniques.

Outside of racing, Rosie is very involved behind-the-scenes. When she's not racing and training, she volunteers with Fast and Female—a program dedicated to empowering young women through sport—and Skiku, which provides nordic ski instruction to children and communities all around Alaska.

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Gina Kennedy Professional Squash Player On Being a Gladiator…Ep159

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 09:30:00 -0000

Gina Kennedy is a Professional Squash Player from London. She is currently ranked number 6 in the world, has won 11 titles on the PSA World Tour and is the 2022 Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist.

Gina enjoyed a very successful junior career, holding nine national titles, a European title, and was ranked number 1 in England at every age group. In 2016, she began her studies at Harvard University. While at Harvard, she won the women's individual national championships three times and the team national championships four times. Gina was also received many accolades for sportsmanship, including the Betty Richey award and the Radcliffe prize. She graduated from Harvard University in 2020 AND within eight months of playing on the professional circuit she rose from world number 187 to world number 10!

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Race Report: Julia Kern Cross Country World Cup, Ruka, Finland 2023

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 09:30:00 -0000

2023 World Championship medalist and 2022 Olympian Julia Kern is making a name for herself as one of the fastest sprinters in cross country skiing.

Julia is a 2022 Olympian and World Championship bronze medalist. She has secured two podiums in the ultra-competitive World Cup field, becoming the youngest American to podium on the World Cup, is a four-time National Champion, was the U23 World Champs bronze medalist, and was a key part in the World Junior Championships Relay (first ever USA relay medal at World Juniors).

She was named to the U.S. team at only 17, now she is entering her ninth year on the team, her goals remain - winning Olympic medals, adding more World Cup podiums to her resume and positively impacting her community and the sport of cross-country skiing.

Outside of skiing, Julia is always on the move. She enjoys anything outdoors, from climbing, hiking, surfing, mountain biking, swimming, beach volleyball or shooting hoops; she captures all her adventures with a camera in hand. She is also involved with the Share Winter Foundation, Little Bellas and Fast and Female.

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Molly Bookmyer Olympic Trials Marathon Qualifier Risk It For The Biscuit…Ep158

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:30:00 -0000

Molly Bookmyer is long distance runner who is a member of the Oiselle Underbird Team. She lives and trains in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Eric and dog Cooper. She holds a degree in Operations Management from The Ohio State University and works full time in Supply Chain. She currently holds personal bests of 2:30:37 in the marathon and 1:10:51 in the half marathon.

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Jessie Diggins Sparkly Cross Country Ski Racer, Olympic Medalist, World Champion, Author…Ep157

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:30:00 -0000

Jessie Diggins grew up in Afton, Minnesota where she started skiing with her parents as a very young girl. Now she is one of the most dominant and successful cross country skiers in the world. Jessie is a three-time Olympic medalist, 2023 World Champion, 14x World Cup winner, and 2021 World Cup overall winner. She’s been a US Ski and Snowboard Team athlete since 2011 and joined her current club team, the Stratton Mountain School T2 Team in 2012. In her book, Brave Enough, Jessie tells the inside details of becoming and being an elite athlete. Jessie also partners with the Emily Program, Protect Our Winters, and Share Winter Foundation.

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Barb Broad Still Finding Speed at 73 Years Old…Ep156

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 08:30:00 -0000

Barb Broad is a 73-year old runner who lives and trains in Cleveland, Ohio. Barb is a retired Speech-Language Pathologist who discovered running, thanks to one of her sporty female friends, when she was 40 years old. Instantaneously, she loved the sport, becoming more and more passionate about it…she trained with coaches, went to a nutritionist, and general fully committed to being the best she could be. She tells that story and in particular honors a coach who saw something special in her. And pay attention because this is a great lesson for all of us: Barb raced her best marathon times in her sixties: 3:19:01 when she was 60 at the 2011 Boston Marathon and in 2012 when she was 62 at the Twin Cities Marathon she ran 3:18:40 to win the Masters Marathon Age Graded Championship. During her career she has run twenty-tree marathons including eight times at Boston where she won her age group four times. She’s run about a half dozen half marathons with a PR of 1:33:09 at 62 years old. On the track she’s won multiple gold medals in the 400, 800, 1500, 3000, 5000, and mile, including breaking the world age group record in the mile with a 5:59.5.

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Janee’ Kassanavoid The Face of People with Big Goals …Ep155

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 08:30:00 -0000

Janee’ Kassanavoid is a professional Nike Track and Field athlete and competes for Team USA. As a Nike N-seven ambassador she is representing culture and sharing the journey to gold as a Native Athlete. Janee’ is a member of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma. She was born and raised in Lawson, Missouri and grew up as a multi-sport athlete, lettering in softball, volleyball, basketball, and track & field. We talk about the athleticism she gained by training in all those sports. She is certainly body aware. Janee’ shares an awesome and …a bit funny insight into trying to get her body to listen to her in her work to improve some technique. In August this year Janee’ took silver at the World Championships in Budapest, so we talk about what that success meant to her after some difficult months. At the World Championships the year prior she won bronze, making Janee’ the first Indigenous woman to medal at the World Athletics Track and Field Championships. Her personal best throw with the hammer was 78.00 meters (or 255.91 feet) That throw was the third best in the USA all-time and the sixth best in the world all-time. In 2022 Janee’ was Indoor National weight throw Champion and the Outdoor National runner-up in the hammer throw. And she finished off that season by winning gold in the hammer throw at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Championships or NACAC Championships. Janee’ and I also talk about food and nutrition because she is as passionate about those topics as she is about her sport career. She graduated from Kansas State with a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics in 2018. During her time at Kansas State she was a three-time Big 12 Champion and a four-time All-American. She remains the current Kansas State weight throw and hammer throw school record holder.

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Jaydyn McKinney OHSAA Girls Wrestling State Champion…Ep154

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 08:30:00 -0000

High school senior Jaydyn McKinney has been wrestling for fifteen years. She is a 2x Ohio High School state champion which makes her the only athlete to win a back-to-back state championship for her high school. She’s currently ranked 16th in the country at 135 pounds and has won multiple national and state titles. Even though she’s the only girls on her high school team, she is one of the team captains.

In 2022, the Ohio High School Athletic Association officially sanctioned girls wrestling and the following year, in 2023 held the first State Championships for high school female wrestlers. Jaydyn won that event at 135 pounds.

She has been wrestling since age 5 with the Manchester Youth Wrestling Club, Manchester Middle School, and Manchester High School as well as the Ohio Girls National Team.

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BONUS: Women’s Running Stories with Liz Derstine, Her Appalachian Trail FKT Story

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 08:30:00 -0000

Liz Derstine is a musician, runner, writer, and as of 2020, a long-distance hiker. On July 7, 2020, she embarked on the life-altering adventure of through-hiking the 2,193-mile Appalachian Trail, as quickly as possible.

Now, having had several years to reflect on this epic journey, Derstine tells her whole AT story: from what inspired her to want to hike the entirety of this daunting trail, to how it all went down, through to the many ways her life has changed as a result of transporting herself on foot, through the wilderness, from Georgia to Maine.

At its core, this is a journey of self-discovery.

Since her record-setting AT hike, Derstine has continued to embark on incredible multiday hiking adventures. She now holds many Fastest Known Time (FKT) records, including among others the Long Trail FKT for a self-supported woman. Most recently, on July 1, 2023, she set the FKT for a self-supported woman on the Via Alpina in Switzerland, finishing in just under seven days.

Derstine currently lives and Boston, and when she's away from the trail, she is studying classical piano at the Longy School of Music at Bard College.

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Katherine Stewart-Jones Olympic Nordic Skier in Off Season…Ep153

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:30:00 -0000

Katherine Stewart-Jones was born and raised in Chelsea Quebec in the heart of the Gatineau Park. It was there that she started skiing with her family as soon as she could walk. she did began competing at local events when she was 5, BUT she was an all -around active kid. Like lots of Hear Her Sports guests, she did a wide range of sports including soccer, sailing, kayaking, canoeing and downhill skiing. During that time, sports were mostly about spending time outdoors and with her family. It was in high school, when she joined a sports program in that allowed her to juggle her full schedule of training and racing with schooling that Katherine decided to pursue skiing more seriously. Now as one of the older members of the Canadian National Team, and one of the few women racing for Canada at the World Cup level, it has become important to Katherine to be a role model for the younger female athletes on the team. She also spreads her love for all sports AND the outdoors through Classroom Champions and Fast and Female. With those two programs and with her teammates, she aims to empower women to take control of their own success and to dream big. In the episode we talk about those mentoring programs, how she works collaboratively with coaches and has taken that responsibility as well as her success into her own hands, quality training over quantity, looking at data, fear of losing fitness, and…. what she’s working on during the off-season. Since it IS her off season, we talk a lot about how she’s been spending the time resting and preparing to build on the incredible success she had last year, during a breakthrough season when Katherine raced to her first ever top 10 result and many top 20s. She also finished 20th overall in the World Cup distance ranking! The off season for any sport is an interesting time period both mentally and physically. Katherine offered up some great insights about her recent success and a change in outlook about competing. It was a privilege to talk to Katherine in the off season and get a good look at her mindset during this time of year.

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Hayley Simmonds Safety at Tour Féminin des Pyrénées …Ep152

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 08:30:00 -0000

Hayley Simmonds has been a full-time, professional cyclist since completing her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at The University of Cambridge in 2016. To date she has won two Elite British TT titles and 17 Cycling Time Trials National titles. She also holds three British TT records (at 10, 25 and 50 miles) and was the first woman to break the 50-minute barrier for a 25-mile time trial.

Internationally, Hayley has represented Great Britain at five Road Cycling World Championships and three European Championships. She won a bronze medal for Team England in the time trial at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and another for Team GB in the time trial at the 2019 European Games. She also represented Great Britain at two e-Sports World Championships, along with the inaugural UCI Gravel World Championship in October 2022. Hayley races on the road for AWOL-O'Shea Continental Team and represents Movistar Team Gravel Squad off-road. She has finished on the podium at two UCI Gravel World Series races and has qualified for the 2023 UCI Gravel World Championships. Hayley has also appeared as co-commentator and studio pundit for several high-level cycling events, including World Championships, European Championships, Ride London, Commonwealth Games and La Course. She also regularly appears in UK cycling publications and is asked to contribute to fitness articles. Outside of cycling she loves to cook and bake, is a big cat lover and mother to a black cat called Liquorice.

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Sarah Douglas Canadian Olympic Sailor…Ep151

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 08:30:00 -0000

Born in Burlington, Ontario, Sarah started sailing at the age of seven on the island of Barbados. Starting in the Optimist, she competed in North American and World Championships before the age of 15. After outgrowing the boat, Sarah returned to Canada and transitioned into the Laser Radial class. From there she quickly became one of the top youth sailors in Canada. In 2010, an opportunity was presented to qualify Canada and represent the country at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. After coming second at the 2010 Youth Nationals, Sarah lost the love of competing and decided to coach youth athletes at Ashbridge’s Bay Yacht Club for two summers. By 2014, her dream to compete at the Olympics was awoken by Canadian medalist who inspired Sarah to get back into the game and pursue her goal of winning an Olympic medal. Having completed a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing Management at the University of Guelph in 2017 and is sailing full time. Sarah won the 2019 Pan Am Games Gold medal and finished a historic 6th place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Now Sarah is hungrier than ever to step onto the podium in Paris 2024.

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Dr. Angie Ridgel, Brain and Movement, High-Cadence Cycling for Parkinson’s …Ep150

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 08:30:00 -0000

Dr. Angie Ridgel is Professor of Exercise Science and Exercise Physiology in the School of Health Sciences and the Associate Director of the Brain Health Research Institute at Kent State University. She has an active research program focused on how aging and neurological disorders affect movement in humans, and how exercise can be used to promote neurorehabilitation and brain health. Dr. Ridgel's research, studying the effects of high-cadence cycling in individuals with Parkinson's disease, has been funded by NIH, the Davis Phinney Foundation and the Research Research and Development Service, US Veterans Affairs. In 2018, she was elected a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). Dr. Ridgel is also President and Coach of Stelleri Performance Training. An endurance coaching business specializing in athletes over 40.

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Dr. Kate Ackerman, Female Athlete Conference and Wu Tsai Female Athlete Program…Ep149

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 08:30:00 -0000

Dr. Kate Ackerman is the Founder and Director of the Wu Tsai Female Athlete Program Boston Children’s Hospital and Biennial International Female Athlete Conference and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She earned her BA from Cornell University, her MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed her residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her sports medicine fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital and endocrinology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

She is currently the chair of the US Rowing medical committee and a member of the World Rowing medical commission. Her research focuses on female athlete health and the various aspects of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S). She has authored/co-authored over 100 articles and book chapters related to sports medicine, endocrinology, rowing, bone health, and female athletes, including position statements with the International Olympic Committee. Athletically, Dr. Ackerman represented the US as a lightweight rower at the World Championships, having taken up rowing as a walk-on at Cornell. She has multiple National Championships titles and still competes with her teammates for life as a masters athlete. Most recently, she has become a member of the national leadership council for the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a $220 million initiative to improve health and performance globally. Dr. Ackerman is leading the Alliance’s focus on scientific advancements for women.

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Christine Yu Up To Speed, The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes…Ep148

Thu, 18 May 2023 08:30:00 -0000

Christine Yu is an award-winning journalist whose work focuses on the intersection of sports science and women athletes. Her writing has appeared in Outside, The Washington Post, Runner’s World, and other publications. She’s a lifelong athlete and yoga teacher who loves running, surfing, and skiing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Sammy Smith Team USA Ski & Soccer…Ep147

Thu, 04 May 2023 08:30:00 -0000

Samantha Smith is a multi-sport athlete. She does freestyle, alpine, and nordic skiing, runs cross country, plays soccer, hikes, and mountain bikes. She lives seven months of the year in Boise, Idaho and five months in Sun Valley, splitting time between Boise High School and Community School. This set up allows her to pursue her two main sports -- soccer and skiing. And what makes Sammy unique is that she is top level in both these sports! She is a member of the U.S. cross-country skiing development team and a member of the U twenty U.S. National Team soccer pool. This past year she had World Cup experiences in both soccer and skiing. She played in the U17 soccer World Cup in India (where she scored two goals). Sammy also skied Period 4 of the Nordic World Cup in Norway, Sweden, Estonia, and Finland. In those 2023 World Cup races, which took place between March 11th and 26th, she earned two top thirty finishes. When she’s not competing, you can find her in the outdoors with her family and golden retriever.

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Nancy Clark Sports Nutrition Guidebook…Ep146

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 08:30:00 -0000

Sports nutritionist Nancy Clark is Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics. She counsels both competitive athletes and casual exercisers in her successful private practice in the Boston-area. Her extensive experience has helped thousands of active clients win with good nutrition.

Her nutrition advice and photo have graced the back of the Wheaties’ box! She has been Team Nutritionist for the Boston Red Sox. And her best-selling Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook has sold over 800,000 copies and now is available in it’s 6th edition. Nancy also writes a monthly nutrition column called The Athlete's Kitchen, which appears regularly in over 100 sports and fitness publications and websites.

Nancy is a sought-after nutrition counselor for athletes who struggle with food-and weight issues, as well as a nutrition educator and speaker popular with dietitians, trainers, coaches, and other health professionals who want to learn how to effectively teach winning sports nutrition messages.

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Amanda Sobhy USA #1 Professional Squash Player…Ep145

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 08:30:00 -0000

Amanda Sobhy is currently the #1 ranked #1 US player (which is the highest ranked American player ever.) and she’s #5 in the world. She has a career-high world ranking of #3. She earned five US Women's National Champion titles and three Gold medals at the 2015 & 2019 Pan American Games, which makes her the first player ever to win three Gold medals (Individual, Doubles, and Team) in the Pan-American Games.

Amanda graduated from Harvard University in 2015 with an undefeated 62-0 record. She won the Intercollegiate Individual National Championship four times and the team National title three times. She also led the US Women's National team to a best finish (2nd) at the 2022 Women's World Team Championships.

Amanda currently lives and trains in Boca Raton, Florida.

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Kelsey Pfendler Great Pacific Race with Hericane Rowing…Ep144

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 08:30:00 -0000

Since she was 18 years old, Kelsey Phendler has been working on water and in boats of all kinds. She’s been a professional Grand Canyon Boatman and River Guide for ten years, where she rows boats loaded with gear and passengers along 226-mile trips in every weather condition imaginable from spring through fall. Kelsey also currently pilots motorboats for the United States Geological Survey fish study group. She is now preparing to row from San Francisco to Hawaii with her Hericane Rowing teammates in the Great Pacific Race. This race will certainly be a huge challenge, but Kelsey is no stranger to the perseverance needed to smile in the face of physical and environmental adversity so she’s looking forward to this year of planning and preparation. Working with a strong group of women is exactly where Kelsey thrives. She believes training to break the Women's Ocean Rowing World Record alongside her strong teammates Sierra Myers and sisters Jennifer and Kristen Hofer will be a deeply transformational experience. They all share that same dream!

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Jae Gruenke Feldenkrais Practitioner…Ep143 with Women's Running Stories

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:30:00 -0000

In this special collaboration with Women's Running Stories, we talk to Jae Gruenke, Feldenkrais practitioner, running form expert, and founder of The Balance Runner.

Jae Gruenke is known as “the wise woman of running” and has helped runners from beginner to Olympian relieve pain and improve their performance; she specializes in helping runners whose problems have persisted despite medical treatment.

Jae’s interest in running technique was sparked when, as a professional dancer, she was asked to perform choreography that included sustained running in large, outdoor environments. Frustrated by how difficult and uncomfortable running felt, she began to study running technique and use the Feldenkrais Professional Training Program she was enrolled in as a laboratory to discover how to coordinate her movements so that running felt comfortable, easy, and enjoyable.

Eventually, realizing she’d come to prefer running to dancing, and also that the changes in movement that had made the difference to her running were not being taught, discussed, or researched elsewhere, she retired from dancing and launched The Balanced Runner. Jae has been a member of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America since 1999 and the United Kingdom since 2011 and was an ACE-certified personal trainer from 1999-2012.

She graduated from Williams College in 1992 where she majored in literary studies and cross-enrolled at Bennington College to study modern dance. Working as a professional dancer from 1992-2003, she performed with a number of New York City-based companies, and at the time of her retirement from dance in 2003 she was a senior company member of Sarah Skaggs Dance.

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Kristen Bourne US Ski Team Cross Country D-Team Coach…Ep142

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 09:30:00 -0000

Kristen Bourne has coached cross country skiing at the collegiate and professional level for the past three years. She was the assistant coach at The College of Saint Scholastica for two years where she was a 2021 Women’s Sports Foundation Tara VanDerveer Fellow. During the summer, she was an assistant coach with the Craftsbury Green Racing Project professional team in Vermont. Prior to coaching, she skied for Northern Michigan University for five years, qualifying for the NCAA Championships three-times and representing the United States at the World Junior Championships and U23 World Championships in 2015 and 2016. After college, she moved to Oslo, Norway where she skied full-time and was an intern at the Norwegian School of Sports Science. Currently, Kristen is the US Ski Cross Country D-Team coach at US Ski and Snowboard, overseeing the top junior and U23 athletes in the US as well as traveling full-time on the World Cup supporting all national team athletes. She is also a graduate student at the College of Saint Scholastica studying Exercise Physiology. When Kristen is not working or studying, she can be found hanging out with her dogs and spending time outdoors with her friends and family.

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Erika Hood Syatt Shifting the Narrative of Who is Outdoors…Ep141

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 09:30:00 -0000

Erika Hood was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and has over fifteen years of experience in community organizing and advocacy. She believes that authentic engagement matters most when working with the community. In 2009 Erika, her sister Ebony and their mother Marcia founded Syatt, formerly known as See You at the Top. Syatt's MISSION is to support its community through culturally relevant programming in the natural and built environment. As a co-founder of SYATT, Erika is able to transform the lives of youth and adults in Cleveland, by curating culturally tailored opportunities for community members to engage in nature and outdoor recreation. In spaces that are historically white, she understands how important Black and Brown representation in nature is and has committed to maintaining a level of expertise in all activities that she encourages her community members to try. Most recently that meant that she and her sister became certified SCUBA divers. As a member of a community that suffers from toxic stress and chronic diseases, green space is an integral component of the physical and mental healing of her community. Erika recalls having supportive parents in her youth who gave her the opportunity to try new things. They exposed her to parks, informative landmarks, and the legacy of cultural contributions found across America. She has passed on this love of travel to her incredibly talented sons, Greg and Duke.

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Jenny Nguyen The Sports Bra…Ep140

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 09:30:00 -0000

Jenny Nguyen picked up a basketball right around the same time she put down her milk bottle. From an early age, people called her a tomboy. Instead of playing with dolls and wearing dresses, she climbed trees and rode bikes. But most of all, she loved to play basketball. That love shaped her whole identity and helped her to fit in all the way through high school.

When she was 19 years old in her first year playing college ball at Clark College, Nguyen ruptured her ACL. She was devastated by the career-ending injury, but stumbled upon a newfound passion: cooking. She cooked all through college, first for her roommate, then for the whole floor and then for the entire dorm. She landed her first kitchen job at age 22 and fell in love with the craft all over again.

After graduating from college, Nguyen enrolled at the Western Culinary Institute in downtown Portland. There she graduated from the expedited program while working full time at a couple of fine dining restaurants. When she was in the kitchen, Nguyen was in her element. The zone. The basketball court and the kitchen have been the only two places she has ever felt like she belonged. Later, she realized that both those places are very male-dominated and that she had struggled, endured and found success in her own way. She went on to work her way up in kitchens for another 15 years, with the last four years as an executive chef at Reed College for Bon Appétit Management Company.

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Anouk Patty Chief of Sport US Ski and Snowboard …Ep139

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:30:00 -0000

Anouk Patty has a long and distinguished career at several blue-chip corporations. She was Head of Strategic Partnerships at HP, Inc. focused on 3D scanning and 3D printing partnerships, particularly in the footwear and sports categories. Prior to that, she led HP’s partnerships in the gaming space. Anouk spent time at Intuit where she was the GM of Quicken and Quickbooks for the Mac business. Her foundational professional experience was developed at both Bain & Company in San Francisco and J.P. Morgan in New York City and Melbourne, Australia. Anouk is on the board of Park City-based POWDR, the parent company of Woodward, Copper Mountain, and Killington Resort and previously sat on the board of Green Mountain Valley School. Anouk is a long-time athlete. She competed on the U.S. Alpine Ski Team in the 1980s and raced for Dartmouth College, where she was a three-time All-American and won the NCAA Skiing Championship in 1988. She earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, an executive education certificate in leadership in innovation from Stanford Business School, and a B.A in Economics from Dartmouth College. Anouk continues to love the outdoors, aims to get out every day to ski, play golf, mountain bike or trail run.

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Sasha DiGiulian World Champion Rock Climber & Found of SEND Bars …Ep138

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 09:30:00 -0000

Sasha DiGiulian began climbing in 1998 at six years old. She won the World Championships for Female Overall, a Silver in the Bouldering World Championships, as well as Bronze in the Duel. Sasha was also the undefeated pan-American Champion for over a decade. Outdoors, Sasha is the first North American woman to climb the grade nine-a, five-fourteen-d. Additionally, she has on-sighted multiple eight-b-pluses, five fourteen-a’s, ascended groundbreaking, multi-pitch routes of over fifteen hundred feet of eight-c climbing, AND accomplished multiple First Ascents and over thirty First Female Ascents around the World. Sasha is a graduate of Columbia University in New York City where she studied Non-fiction Writing and Business. She is on the Board of the Women’s Sports Foundation, and is an Athlete Ambassador for Right to Play, Up2Us Sports, Access Fund, and American Alpine Club. She is the founder of SEND Bars and Female Focused Adventures, plus is a co-founder of RoamTV.

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Hayley Simmonds Gravel, Iliac Surgery, & The Cyclists’ Alliance Mentorship Program …Ep137

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:30:00 -0000

Hayley has been a full-time, professional cyclist since completing her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at The University of Cambridge in 2016. She is 2x Elite British TT champion, 17x Cycling Time Trials National Champion and holds 3 British TT records (at 10, 25 and 50 miles). She was the first woman to break the 50-minute barrier for a 25-mile time trial.

Hayley won bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and at the 2019 European. She also represented Great Britain at the second e-Sports World Championship in 2022 and at the inaugural UCI Gravel World Championship in fall 2022.

Hayley has also appeared as co-commentator and studio pundit for several high-level cycling events, including World Championships, European Championships, Ride London, Commonwealth Games and La Course.

Hayley has been a member of The Cyclists’ Alliance since its inception and became involved in the mentoring program in 2018; first as a mentee then as a mentor.

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Joanne Lannin Who Let Them In? Women in Sports Journalism …Ep136

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 09:30:00 -0000

Joanne Lannin wrote for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram in Portland, Maine for twenty-two years …where she was the first female sports reporter.

Who Let Them In? Pathbreaking Women in Sports Journalism is Joanne’s fourth book about women and sports. Joanne is a retired English and journalism teacher and she still plays basketball in an over-50 league. She lives in the Portland, Maine area with her husband Rik and their two rescue pups.

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Savilia Blunk 6X USA Mountain Biking National Champion…Ep135

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:30:00 -0000

Savilia Blunk was raised in rural Northern California. As the youngest of three, she spent her childhood chasing two older brothers around on rusty, hand-me-down bikes. Her love of the outdoors and the adrenaline from physical activity began with her parents providing an early introduction to pure adventure... Of course, strong internal motivation to keep up with her brothers also helped!

Savilia started bike racing in high school through the NorCal NICA league – founded in 2009, NICA (the National Interscholastic Cycling Association) develops interscholastic mountain biking programs for student-athletes across the United States.

Savilia is a six-time MTB National Champion, Pan Am Champion, current Elite Cross Country National Champion, and she has achieved two World Cup bronze medals. One of Savilia's biggest passions is to be an approachable mentor to kids getting into the sport, and to inspire cycling as a lifelong outlet.

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Molly Seidel Olympic Marathon Bronze Medalist…Ep134

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 08:30:00 -0000

Olympian Molly Seidel is a professional runner. She is well known for her incredible performance in the Tokyo Olympics heat to win bronze in the marathon. She was 2nd in the Olympic trials, which was her first-ever marathon. In 2021, Molly ran the fastest time ever by an American woman at the New York City Marathon in 2:24:42, shattering the previous course record by more than a minute. None of that success is a fluke. Molly graduated from the University of Notre Dame, where she was a 4-time NCAA champion, 6-time NCAA All-American, 6-time Atlantic Coast Conference champion and 2016 female ACC Athlete of the Year. Molly speaks up about mental health, eating disorders, and the impact physical movement has on both. Molly along with Kathrine Switzer and The Women’s Sports Foundation partnered with Michelob Ultra to help increase representation of female and non-binary runners by bringing visibility to the incredible stories of these athletes and helping more female and non-binary runners to join the race to equality by covering race fees and providing training to first-time marathon runners.

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Kathy Murray The Munich Cowboys Cheerleaders…Ep133

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:30:00 -0000

Kathy Murray is a certified personal trainer with over thirty years of experience in the fitness industry. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University where she was a member of the 1983 National Cheerleading Championship Team. She won the United States Aerobic Championship in 1986 and spent the year traveling the world as a Fitness Ambassador and worked as a free-lance educator to teach fitness to European Instructors. While in Munich, she coached the Munich Cowboys (American Football) Cheerleaders to six national titles in cheerleading and was head trainer/translator for the German Gladiators during a pilot TV show for the International Gladiators. Kathy has competed in triathlons since 2000 and has owned her personal training business Fit Bodies for 24 years. This year, she co-authored the Audible book, The Munich Cowboy Cheerleaders based on her time coaching the squad.

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Kelcey Ervick Graphic Memoir, The Keeper Soccer & TitleIX…Ep132

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 08:30:00 -0000

Kelcey Ervick was a goalkeeper for nationally ranked soccer teams as a girl and a D1 player in college. These days, she is an author, artist, mother, and professor of creative writing at Indiana University in South Bend. Her latest book is the graphic memoir, The Keeper. Kelcey has written three award-winning books of fiction and nonfiction----THE BITTER LIFE OF BOŽENA NĚMCOVÁ, LILIANE'S BALCONY, and FOR SALE BY OWNER. She is co-editor, with Tom Hart, of THE FIELD GUIDE TO GRAPHIC LITERATURE, forthcoming from Rose Metal Press in 2023. Kelcey’s NEW book, due out in September 2022, is a graphic memoir, called The Keeper. It i about her time as a soccer goalie along with so much more surrounding that -- including Title IX, Women’s sport history, friendship, growing up, and art. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearhersports Find all episodes http://www.hearhersports.com/ Find Hear Her Sports on all social @hearhersports Purchase The Keeper https://bookshop.org/books/the-keeper-soccer-me-and-the-law-that-changed-women-s-lives/9780593539187?aid=16267&listref=what-elizabeth-is-reading Find Kelcey Ervick on IG at https://www.instagram.com/kelcey.parker.ervick/ Find Kelcey Ervick on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KelceyErvick

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Cherie Turner Comrades Marathon…Ep131

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:30:45 -0000

Cherie Louise Turner is the host and producer of Women's Running Stories, where she shares the running stories of women from around the world and at every level of the sport. Cherie is a lifelong athlete whose first serious competitive love was racing bicycles on the road and track. In the early 90s she earned her way on to a professional domestic team. Cherie’s post cycling life has primarily focused on running and she's raced distances from the 400m on the track to 50 miles on the trails, all the way to her recent completion of the historic 56-mile hilly road race, the Comrades Marathon in South Africa. These days Cherie is excited to explore the potential and the benefits of being an older athlete and what it means to improve as an athlete as the years go by. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearhersports Find all episodes http://www.hearhersports.com/ Find Hear Her Sports on all social @hearhersports Find Cherie Turner on IG at https://www.instagram.com/clouiseturner/ Find Women’s Running Stories on IG at https://www.instagram.com/womensrunningstories/ Find Women’s Running Stories podcast at https://womensrunningstories.com/

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Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu Physiatrist and Founder of Sports Equity Lab on Madam Athlete…BONUS

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 08:30:00 -0000

Madam Athlete is a career podcast for women working in sports and athletics, created by sports medicine physician, Dr. Giselle Aerni. On the podcast, she interviews women working in sports about their career journeys and takes deep dive into career development topics like building your confidence and graceful self-promotion.

Yetsa A. Tuakli-Wosornu, M.D., M.P.H. is a sports and wellness expert and an athlete. She is interested in helping people achieve high performance at all stages of life through holistic mind-body development. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, she is an interventional spine Physiatrist, a long jumper (representing Ghana until 2016), and she was the International Paralympic Committee's inaugural Welfare Officer. She offers community and academic audiences a fresh combination of rigorous content and experiential wisdom, with love.

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Nordic Combined Annika Malacinski on Keep The Flame Alive…BONUS

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 08:30:16 -0000

Keep the Flame Alive is the podcast for fans of the Olympics and Paralympics. Hosted by Jill Jaracz and Alison Brown, this weekly show has everything fans want to know about the Olympic and Paralympic Movements: How sports work, history, host city information, and much more! During the Games, our daily recaps cover all of the action. Nordic Combined is the only sport on the current Olympic program that is only open to men. Many athletes are working to change that, including Team USA’s Annika Malacinski. Annika talks about how the sport works, which surprisingly involves a lot of body measurements, and we learn about one of the best winner’s prizes ever. Annika gets pretty frank with us about how tough it is to not have her discipline in the Olympics. It tried to get into 2022, but was denied.

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Kim McKenney & Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt Nordic Ski Lab…Ep130

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 08:30:35 -0000

Kim McKenny is the president and co-founder of Nordic Ski Lab, an online learning platform that uses videos to teach the ski techniques used by competitive cross-country skiers. Kim is a certified ski coach who uses her own experiences learning how to ski as an adult combined with expertise and demonstrations from world-class athletes to deliver affordable and easy-to-understand ski technique. Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt began working with Nordic Ski Lab in 2016 and she’s the primary demo athlete for Nordic Ski Lab and a technique consultant. She raced for three years on the Canadian National Ski Team and competed for the Canadian Olympic team at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearhersports Find all episodes http://www.hearhersports.com/ Find Nordic Ski Lab on IG at https://www.instagram.com/nordicskilab/ Find Hear Her Sports on all social @hearhersports

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Whitney Washington Figure It Out Over Time Bike Touring…Ep129

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 08:30:08 -0000

Whitney Washington is a 31-year-old storyteller and worldwide bike adventurer. In 2021 she rode across the United States. This month she begins a new trip from Alaska to Argentina. Whitney grew up in a military family and moved around a lot. She discovered adventure with her mother on car trips to explore their new surroundings. She also enjoyed watching action sport films and stories about exploration and envisioning herself within those experiences. But, being fat was always the reason why she felt she could never achieve such ambitions. In college she attended an event for suicide prevention and learned about mental health and suicide related deaths. During that time she stumbled upon video editing, which ignited her imagination and showed her how she could help. She believed her best way of contributing was showing people that their life, story and dreams mattered. She quickly realized that she needed to show that to herself as well, which led her on this journey of self-understanding. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearhersports or Buy Me A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hearher Find all episodes http://www.hearhersports.com/ Find Whitney here: http://Recapturinglife.com or on IG https://www.instagram.com/recapturinglife_/ Find Hear Her Sports on all social @hearhersports

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Bianca Smith Boston Red Sox Minor League Coach…Ep128

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 08:30:35 -0000

2022 is Bianca Smith’s 2nd season as a minor league coach with the Boston Red Sox. Prior to being with the Red Sox she was an Assistant Athletic Director and Assistant Baseball Coach/Hitting Coordinator at Carroll University.

Bianca also coached at Case Western Reserve University (where she earned her dual JD/MBA) and at the University of Dallas. She also worked in Baseball Operations in the front offices of the Texas Rangers, the Cincinnati Reds, and Major League Baseball’s Commissioner’s Office.

Bianca graduated from Dartmouth College in 2012 where she played varsity softball and club baseball.

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Teni Charles St.Vincent Women’s National Football Team…Ep127

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 08:30:35 -0000

Asanteni Charles, known at Teni, is a women’s footballer with the team Billericay Town FC based in Essex, England and St Vincent Women’s National Team. She has been playing since she was young, even traveling each summer to the IMG Academy to become a better player. Off the pitch, with her sports coaching and performance analysis degree, Teni is also a key voice within women’s sport, helping to drive the younger generation. The struggles of losing her mum and sister at a young age has led Teni to get involved through public speaking, be a part of the FA Womens Leadership Programme ,and support young female athletes in the community with similar struggles to her experiences. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearhersports Find all episodes http://www.hearhersports.com/ Find Teni on IG at https://www.instagram.com/tenicharless/ Find Billericay Town FC Women on IG at @btfcwomen Find Hear Her Sports on all social @hearhersports

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Ellie Smart Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series…Ep126

Thu, 26 May 2022 08:30:03 -0000

American Ellie Smart is a professional high diver competing in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. She started competing in the World Series events in 2017 on the rough Irish coast of Inis Mór and earned a permanent place in the women’s line-up for the 2019 season with a third place at the FINA World Cup. Ellie started her career as a diver at five years old when she competed in her first diving meet. She then went on to compete as an NC-double A diver as an undergraduate at UC-Berkeley. In addition to being a professional cliff diver, Ellie founded The Clean Cliffs, Minnesota Diving Academy, and The High Diving Institute. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearhersports Find all episodes hearhersports.com Find Ellie in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at https://www.redbull.com/int-en/event-series/redbull-cliffdiving Or at the High Diving Institute in Utah https://www.highdivinginstitute.com/ Or on IG at https://www.instagram.com/ellietsmart/

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Iris Wang Badminton: Olympics and Beyond…Ep125

Thu, 12 May 2022 08:30:02 -0000

Olympian Iris Wang is a singles badminton player from Los Angeles, California. She started playing as a young kid and has been competing internationally and frequently medaling for more than a decade in singles, doubles, and team competitions. She competed in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, won bronze medals in both the 2015 and 2019 Pan Am Games, and has had a world ranking as high as 30th. In January she was eledted to the Badminton World Federation Athletes’ Commission, a position she will hold through 2025. Iris graduated with a bachelor’s in business economics from UCLA. Outside of badminton, she enjoys reading, drawing, and binging Netflix shows. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearhersports Find all episodes hearhersports.com Find Iris on IG at https://www.instagram.com/ibleepbloop/

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Helena Gilbert-Snyder Lifetime Grand Prix & Women Belong in Cycling…Ep124

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:30:31 -0000

Helena Gilbert-Snyder is a financial analyst at Specialized Bicycles. She also races bikes at the professional level across dirt, road, and gravel disciplines. This season, a big focus is the Lifetime Grand Prix, a new televised off-road series with a big prize purse. She is the youngest rider competing in the six-race series. Helena is highly involved with several local high school mountain bike teams through NICA (the National Interscholastic Cycling Association), with her local road racing organization, and is an active advocate for women's sports and gender equity at a broader level. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearhersports Find all episodes hearhersports.com Find Helena at https://www.helenagilbertsnyder.com/ Or on IG at https://www.instagram.com/hel.racer/

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Dr. Stacy Sims on Female Physiology and Training…Ep123

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 08:30:37 -0000

Stacy T. Sims is an applied researcher, innovator, and entrepreneur in human performance, specifically sex differences in training, nutrition, and environmental conditions. Between 2007 and 2012, she served as an exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist at Stanford University, where she specialized in sex differences with environmental and nutritional considerations for recovery and performance, specializing in women's health and performance. With co-author Selene Yeager she wrote the groundbreaking book ROAR and their new book Next Level: Your Guide to Kicking Ass, Feeling Great, and Crushing Goals Through Menopause and Beyond is due out in the next few weeks. In 2012 she cofounded OSMO Nutrition, a sports nutrition company with male and female specific hydration and recovery products. Stacy is well-known as a leading expert in sex differences in training, nutrition, and health often being named a visionary in the sports industry including, one of the top four visionaries in the outdoor sports industry (2017) by Outside Magazine and one of the top four individuals changing the landscape in triathlon nutrition (2017) by Triathlete Magazine. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearhersports Find all episodes hearhersports.com Find Stacy at https://www.drstacysims.com/ Or on IG at https://www.instagram.com/drstacysims/

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Michelle Sechser Olympic Lightweight Double Sculls…Ep122

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 08:30:00 -0000

Olympian Michelle Sechser is a lightweight rower. At Tokyo 2020 she finished 5th in the lightweight double sculls, an incredibly exciting race where the top 5 boats where less than a second apart. She has a long list of international and national results including a win in the lightweight double sculls at the 2021 World Rowing Final Olympic Qualification Regatta and a second in the OPEN weight double sculls at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. She’s been a USA National Team rower for nine years. Michelle was born in San Luis Obispo, California and began rowing at age 14 for Capital Crew after seeing how much her older sister was enjoying the sport. She attended University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a D1 school, on a full ride scholarship. She then earned an MBA at the same school and transitioned into coaching there. Once out of school, she decided to learn how to scull, which is rowing with 2 oars, as compared to sweep rowing, which is with 1 oar because she wanted to try out for the National Team. As I mentioned, did make the National Team for 9 years, missed making the 2016 Olympic Team and struggled with injury. She and rowing partner Molly Reckford came back strong, made the Olympic Team, set a world record in their Semi-Final race there, before an excellent, tough final. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearhersports Find all episodes hearhersports.com Find Michelle on IG at https://www.instagram.com/michellesechser/

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Ishveen Jolly Founder Open Sponsorship…Ep121

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 08:30:26 -0000

Ishveen Jolly is an expert in sports marketing. She worked as a sports agent for many years and is now building her company, Open Sponsorship, to lead the sports marketplace by connecting brands and athletes for digital, effective, and data driven marketing campaigns. Open Sponsorship has twelve thousand athletes and clients such as Walmart, Stitch Fix, and Footlocker on the platform. They have raised over Five point Five million dollars from a range big names in sports business, including Serena Williams, 76ers owner David Blitzer, and Eric Stern. Ishveen was included on the Forbes 30 under 30 sports list and Inc's top 100 female CEOs. She is also an athlete herself starting as a child through college where she played Netball and Cricket at Oxford University. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearhersports Find all episodes at hearhersports.com Find Open Sponsorship at: https://opensponsorship.com/ Find Ishveen on IG at https://www.instagram.com/ishveenj/ on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ishveenanand

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Raquel Vélez Alpine Parrot Dreaming Big…Ep120

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 09:30:42 -0000

Raquel Vélez is the Founder and CEO of Alpine Parrot, an outdoor apparel company that caters specifically to people of size and people of color. She brings with her almost two decades of engineering experience. She received her degree in mechanical engineering from Caltech, worked and studied as a robotics engineer, and eventually shifted over to software engineering and engineering management. Now, as an apparel engineer, she's creatively tackling one of the oldest (and most polluting) industries by creating sustainable, inclusive clothing for a market of people that has so often been neglected in the outdoor space. As a plus sized Latina who discovered her love of the outdoors later in life, Raquel has put an incredible amount of careful consideration into the design of each product, focusing on great fit and quality construction. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearhersports Find all episodes hearhersports.com Find Alpine Parrot at https://alpineparrot.com/

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Tory Mather Making Weight in Lightweight Rowing…Ep119

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 09:30:57 -0000

Tory Mather began rowing in high school after a friend convinced her to try Learn to Row. She rowed Division 1 at Marist College, where she was unanimously voted captain her senior year. After college, she moved to Philadelphia to focus on lightweight rowing from 2012 -2014. During this time, she medaled at Head of the Charles and Club Nationals in the lightweight four. After struggling to make weight and dealing with related health issues, she quit. Later, convinced by friends, she returned to the sport in 2015, rowing masters at Vesper Boat Club. Since then, she has been a 14-time masters national champion and she and her doubles partner, Shannon Kaplan, have never lost a race. She coached masters women at Newport Aquatic Center in California for three years and is currently rowing out of Western Reserve Rowing Association in Cleveland. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearhersports Find all episodes hearhersports.com Find Tory on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mytrailsaremany/

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Cynthia Appiah Beijing Olympics Bobsleigh and Monobob…Ep118

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:30:40 -0000

Cynthia Appiah was a standout shot put and hammer throw athlete at York University. In the summer of 2011 she discovered bobsleigh at a testing camp at her university. She enjoyed a standout rookie season on the World Cup, where she pushed both two-time Olympic champion, Kaillie Humphries, to a gold and bronze medal and rookie pilot Alysia Rissling to her first ever World Cup bronze medal. After being an alternate at the PyeongChang Olympics in 2018, she decided to switch positions in the sled into the driver’s seat and is now one of Canada’s top pilots. In December 2021, she won her first medal at a World Cup event, a silver medal in Altenberg, Germany. That followed a bronze medal in an Olympic test event in October on the same track that will be the site of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Cynthia set a new Ice House start record from the pilot bar in 2019 at 5.41. She was recognized by her peers at Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton with the L. Lamont Gordon Award in 2019.

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Helen Wyman Free Rule Change in Cyclocross…Ep117

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:30:00 -0000

Helen Wyman is 10x British Cyclocross Champion, 2x European Champion, and World Championship bronze medalist. In addition to racing, Helen has worked for years to make progress in the sport towards equality for female riders. This included four years on the UCI Cyclocross Commission and establishing Helen 100 in 2018 to provide opportunities to women in cyclocross. She’s been an expert commentator for Red Bull coverage of cyclocross. Helen retired from racing in 2018.

Helen also offers a preview to the Cyclocross World Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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Mary Wittenberg League One Volleyball (LOVB)…Ep116

Thu, 06 Jan 2022 09:30:00 -0000

Mary Wittenberg is president of League One Volleyball (or LOV), a new, first-of-its-kind volleyball community with a network of junior clubs across the country and a developing pro women’s volleyball league. At Canisius College she was a coxswain for the men’s rowing team and an avid runner. She earned a law degree from Notre Dame University Law School, where she trained with the men’s undergrad cross-country team because there was no women’s team. In 1987, she won the Marine Corps Marathon in a time of 2:44:34 qualifying her for the 1988 Olympic marathon trials. After working at a law firm for more than a decade, she joined New York Road Runners. In 2005, she was named President and CEO, and Race Director of the New York City Marathon, making her the first female race director of a World Marathon Majors race, and the first female leader of the world’s premier road running organization. She is also former CEO of Virgin Sport and former president of EF Education First Pro Cycling Team.

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Nikaeda Griffie You Can Do Hard Things…Ep115

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:30:00 -0000

Nikaeda Griffie started running in high school as a way to socialize and continued cross country and track in college for gym credit and to stay in shape. Nikaeda returned to running in 2007 when a coworker invited her to participate on a marathon relay team. From there she went on to participate in one event each month usually between a 5k and 10k distance. A year later she ran her first half marathon and then her first marathon a few weeks later. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic she had been training for her dream race, the Selma to Montgomery Relay where she would run the route Civil Rights leaders traveled on foot for voting rights. The race was cancelled the week before it was to take place in March 2020 but Nikaeda ran the race virtually. Following this accomplishment, her coach encouraged her to train for Indiana Trail 100 endurance race. After 8 months of training, Nikaeda earned her 100 mile buckle in October 2021. She now runs for stress relief as much as fitness and prides herself in being an average runner with above average goals. She is a proud member of several running clubs- the most influential being Black Girls Run!, Black Runners Connection, National Black Marathoners Association and She Runs This Town.

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Starla Garcia Registered Dietitian & Endurance Runner...Ep114

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:30:00 -0000

Starla Garcia is a registered dietician, Olympic Trials Marathon qualifier, and founder of The Healthy Shine, a sport nutrition and coaching consulting practice in Houston Texas. Starla was a D1 track and field and cross-country runner at the University of Houston. There, she was diagnosed with an eating disorder. Thanks to care and support of some teammates and a coach she faced that and with guidance from a dietician, she recovered and regained confidence in her body. Her experiences now inform her work with other athletes.

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Paige Alms Big Wave Surf Champion...Ep113

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:30:00 -0000

Paige Alms is a 2x Big Wave World Champion Surfer, one of Maui’s token female big wave surfers, an active water enthusiast, and foil frother. Born on the island of Victoria B.C. Canada, Paige relocated to Maui when she was nine after traveling the entire breadth of Australia in a van with her mom. In 2020 Paige was named the women’s winner of the Red Bull Big Wave Awards Biggest Paddle for a Dec. 12 ride at the world-famous Jaws, on a wave measuring 36 feet on the wave’s face. And just in late October it was announced that she won The Biggest Paddle Award again for a ride at Todos Santos, Mexico on January 11, 2021. Paige is on the forefront of women in big surf and has long fought for equal representation in her sport.

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Stephanie Scheirlynck Sports Nutrition...Ep112

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:30:00 -0000

Stephanie Scheirlynck is a certified dietitian and nutritionist specializing in sports nutrition. Over the past 15 years Stephanie has worked with professional athletes across a variety of sports including Olympic gold medalists Greg Van Avermaet (cycling) and Nafi Thiam (track and field), Team Belgium (BOIC), RSC Anderlecht (soccer), and UCI World Tour road cycling team Trek-Segafredo. Stephanie holds a bachelor’s degree in Nutrition Sciences a master’s degree in Sports Nutrition. She is also the author of five books.

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Race Car Driver Toni Breidinger In Control...Ep111

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:30:00 -0000

22-year old rookie race car driver Toni Brideinger is the all-time winningest female in US Auto Club history with 19 wins. Like all race car drivers, Toni has sponsors. Hers include fashion and makeup brands. And she recently signed with Triller, a social media platform, so will be racing their #25 Triller Toyota Camry after recently switching to Venturini Motorsports, a Toyota Racing Development team, for the remainder of the 2021 season. Toni is one of only a handful of female drivers. In February 2021, when she raced in the ARCA-MENARD Series at the Daytona International Speedway, finishing in 18th place out of 33 she made history as NASCAR’s first Arab-American female driver.

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Morgan Tuck Director of Franchise Development, Connecticut Sun...Ep110

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 08:30:00 -0000

Morgan Tuck returned to the Connecticut Sun as the Director of Franchise Development after retiring as a WNBA player in March 2021.

Morgan, a forward, was drafted by Connecticut in 2016 as the third overall pick. She spent four seasons with the Sun until 2020 when she was traded to Seattle. She concluded her WNBA career with 642 points, 273 rebounds and 97 assists. In 2019, she helped the Sun force a five-game series against Washington in the finals and in 2020 she won the championship with the Seattle Storm. Prior to her time in the league, Morgan helped lead UConn women’s basketball to four consecutive national championships. In her senior year she earned WBCA All-American and AP Second Team All-America honors.

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BONUS: Keeping Track: Dalilah Muhammad Journey to the Top

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 08:30:00 -0000

Special bonus introduction to the Keeping Track podcast featuring American track and field star Dililah Muhammad who specializes in the 400 meter hurdles.

Keeping Track is co-hosted by Molly Huddle, Alysia Montano, & Roisin McGettigan Dumas. The three hosts gather together to talk sports and interview other outstanding women in sport. Because of their background they focus on women from the running and track and field worlds but don’t stop there. They’ve talked to coaches, leaders in the running industry, business owners in the sport and of course athletes. Like all the podcasts I love, they offer a platform for women to share their stories more widely.

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BONUS: Strides Forward: Ann Ashworth + Comrades Marathon

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:30:00 -0000

Special bonus introduction to the Strides Forward Podcast featuring South African long distance runner Ann Ashworth. This episode follows Ann’s journey of discovering competitive running in her youth all the way through to seizing her moment at Comrades in 2018. Ann’s story is one of hard work and dedication, overcoming and never ever letting up. Strides Forward is hosted by long distance runner and storyteller dedicated to increasing the visibility of women athletes.

Strides Forward is made for runners and non-runners alike. They believe that everyone should feel welcome at the start line, the group run, the trail adventure, the road workout, the track session, and the post-race BBQ.

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Aifric Keogh Get Fast First…Ep109

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:30:00 -0000

Aifric Keogh started rowing in 2006 and has been a member of the High-Performance team for several years. Aifric studied Food Microbiology in UCC and is a member of UCC Rowing Club. Aifric’s highlights include winning the Junior 8s at the Irish Rowing Championships in 2008 and beating two-time World Champion, Sanita Puspure, in a 30-minute erg test. In 2020, Aifric won Bronze at the European Rowing Championships in Poznan, competing in the Women’s Four and went on to win Silver at the 2021 European Rowing Championships in Varese. Aifric was part of the crew that qualified the Women’s Four at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne. Aifric’s hometown is Na Forbacha, Galway. She just won a bronze medal in the Women’s Four at the Tokyo 2020/2021 Olympics.

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Sam Moore Women Specific Training Design…Ep108

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:30:00 -0000

Sam Moore recently joined University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Exercise and Sport Science graduate school as a research fellow under Dr. Abbie Smith Ryan in the Applied Nutrition & Exercise Physiology Lab. Prior to Carolina, Sam was the Director of Sport Science and Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at NC State from 2019-2021. Her responsibilities included designing and implementing training programs for women's soccer and volleyball, along with the application of menstrual cycle based periodization and female athlete performance strategies. Before NCSU, Sam served as the Volleyball Sport Science Intern at University of Utah where she implemented strategic periodization schemes for indoor and sand volleyball. As a dual sport athlete in volleyball and track & field, Sam competed for two years at the University of Portland before transferring to Western Oregon University. She collected All-GNAC honors in the heptathlon, recorded a top-10 all-time finish in the pentathlon for WOU, and was named to the All-GNAC academic team.Moore graduated with a degree in Exercise Science and Human Biology in 2015 from WOU, a Master’s in Exercise Science in Performance Enhancement and Injury Prevention from California University of Pennsylvania in 2018.

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Erin Jackson Power To The Ice …Ep107

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 08:30:00 -0000

Erin Jackson is a speedskater and scholar from Ocala, Florida. She has been a roller skater for as long as she can remember, going on to pursue inline speedskating (2002), roller derby (2012), and long track speedskating (2017). Erin is a member of Team USA/U.S. National Team for all three sports.

In 2015, Erin graduated cum laude from the University of Florida Honors Program with a BS in Materials Science & Engineering. Two years later she made the transition from inline skating to speedskating on ice, where she quickly qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Erin currently lives in Salt Lake City, UT where she is training for the next Olympic Games. Erin also earned an AS in Computer Science from Salt Lake Community College in 2020 and is working toward an AS in Exercise Science/Kinesiology.

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Pooja Kalyan Trusting What You’ve Trained …Ep106

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 08:30:00 -0000

Pooja Kalyan is an eighteen-year-old from Fayetteville, Arkansas. She started skating when she was six at The Jones Center in Springdale, Arkansas and continued to train there full-time during the school year until the summer of 2019. In her younger and teenage years, Pooja traveled to Tulsa, Los Angeles, and Chicago for short durations during the school year and spent the summers away from home for more training opportunities. She now trains full-time in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and her primary coach is Tom Zakrajsek. Some career highlights include US Junior silver medalist, US novice bronze medalist, and multiple top 10 finishes both nationally and internationally. She is a graduating high school senior at Stanford Online High School after transferring from her brick-and-mortar school in Fayetteville in 11th grade. She will be attending Brown University and plans to start in the fall of 2022. Outside of skating and school, Pooja has three dogs, loves to bake, and enjoys yoga, hiking, and reading.

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Grace Gonzales Angel City Elite…Ep105

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 08:30:00 -0000

Grace Gonzales is one of five runner-founders of the elite distance running team, Angel City Elite, based in Los Angeles and sponsored by Brooks. ACE’s mission is to bridge the disparity gap of BIPOC representation in the running community, raise awareness, empower, educate, and inspire by creating a supportive platform and establishing partnerships in LA and surrounding communities. In addition to being an elite runner, Grace is an educator and yoga facilitator. Her family is filled with runners so the sport has been a part of Grace's life from a very young age. She raced in college but after an injury she stopped running competitively as she earned a graduate degree in teaching and pursued a non-running career. She missed training seriously however so picked it back up again about four years later. One of Grace’s career highlights is the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Atlanta, which she ran in 2:47. Her PR is 2:41:52

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Muffet McGraw Hall of Fame Women’s Basketball Coach…Ep104

Thu, 20 May 2021 08:30:00 -0000

The legendary, Muffet McGraw was the Notre Dame women’s basketball head coach for 33 seasons. In two of those seasons (2001 and 2018) she won the national championship trophy. McGraw is also known for her response to being asked about women in leadership at a 2019 Women’s Final Four press conference. We talk about NCAA weight room debacle, her new book Expect More, using your voice, how to make sports great for young girls, and the brilliance of the next generation. McGraw was the 13th female coach inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017. She was also inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011 and the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014. Coach McGraw’s career included an impressive 936 career wins, which ranks sixth all-time among Division I coaches. Her nine Final Four appearances rank as the fifth most all-time. All totaled, McGraw’s teams have qualified for 26 NCAA Tournaments, earning 67 tournament wins along the way. Since retiring from coaching, Coach McGraw joined ACC Network as a basketball analyst and joined the Women’s Sports Foundations Board of Trustees.

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Gabriela Reutter Seeing The Puzzle Picture…Ep103

Thu, 06 May 2021 08:30:00 -0000

Professional Show Jumper, Gaby Reutter was born in Santiago, Chile and began riding at only four years old. When she was 17, she moved to the United States to pursue a career in professional show jumping. Gaby has multiple top finishes in international FEI classes, from U25 Grand Prix divisions to victory in an FEI 4-star event. She currently campaigns her two show jumpers, Atticus Diamant and Maharees Rock and has a number of developing prospects imported from Europe and Chile. In 2018, she received her certificate of capability for the Pan American Games following a top 3 finish in the FEI 3-star 1.50 meter. Her sights are now set on the 2023 Pan Am Games and to one day be the second woman in history to represent Chile at the Olympic Games.

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Dempsey Arsenault Beyond Her Comfort Zone…Ep102

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 22:14:24 -0000

Lacrosse superstar Dempsey Arsenault graduated from Boston College in 2019. There, she was one of the “Big Three” —a trifecta of women’s lacrosse players who were known for dominating the field and leading the BC team to three consecutive NCAA National Championship Finals. Just in 2019 Dempsey was the Women’s Professional Lacrosse League Champion & Game Most Valuable Player, led the in total points, was the number two Draft Pick in the WPLL, selected for the NCAA all-Tournament Team, voted the Midfielder of the year by both the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association. Also in 2019 Dempsey was a Finalist for the Tewaaraton, an annual award for the most outstanding American college lacrosse player. Going forward, Dempsey will be playing with the new Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse League from July 19 to August 22, 2021 and is a member of Team USA.

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Erica Vanstone Roller Derby Sport & Community…Ep101

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:00:00 -0000

Erica Vanstone is the Executive Director of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), the international governing body for the sport of roller derby. The WFTDA's mission is to revolutionize women-led and gender-expansive-led spaces in sport. With an undergraduate degree from NYU Film, Erica used her communications and production experience in founding WFTDA.tv, the WFTDA's first broadcast program. She later earned a Master’s of Science in Sports Business from Temple University, and has secured partnerships with organizations such as ESPN, UN Women, Twitch.tv, and the BBC. Most recently, in 2020, Erica worked with community epidemiologists to develop comprehensive COVID-19 Guidelines for Return-to-Play featured on Samantha Bee's "Full Frontal," and established the ART Project, an organization-wide anti-racism re-envisioning process to dismantle racism in the WFTDA. Based in Philadelphia, PA, she skates for Philly Roller Derby, and coaches in the organization's youth program, Philly Roller Derby Juniors.

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Clara Honsinger US National Cyclocross Champion…Ep100

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:30:00 -0000

Team USA Cyclocross rider Clara Honsinger grew up riding mountain bikes on the trails behind her home in Oregon and started racing bikes as a teenager with the guidance of a high school teacher. After moving to Portland, OR for school, she discovered cyclocross and was immediately hooked on the physical and technical challenge of the sport. In 2019, she won the US Elite Women National Championships as a first-year elite and then joined the Cannondale CyclocrossWorld.com team. In the 20-21 season she earned two UCI Cyclocross World Cup Podiums and finished fourth overall in the World Cup final standings. Clara ended her stellar season with a fourth-place finish at the World Championships. Clara will be racing on the road with Team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank in 2021. Beyond cycling, she is finishing her undergraduate degree in Nutrition at Oregon State University and enjoys exploring farmer's markets and neighborhood gardens in her free time.

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Khadijah Diggs #nevergiveuponyourself…Ep99

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:30:00 -0000

Khadijah Diggs is a Triathlete on TEAM USA, a mother, and works full time. Her mission is to promote a positive image of Muslim women and Islam in general through sport. Khadijah competed in her first Triathlon in 2012 as part of an initiative for her Sorority. Since then, she has entered more than 40 events and successfully completed all but one of them. She is currently ranked in the top 5% of her age group by Ironman Triathlon and is also the first African American woman to represent Team USA in Long Course Triathlon and the first Muslim to represent Team USA in any multisport event.

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Haley Rosen Just Women’s Sports…Ep98

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:30:00 -0000

CEO and Founder of Just Women’s Sports, Haley Rosen received a BA and an MA from Stanford University, where she played as a midfielder for the Cardinal soccer team. After a brief professional soccer career in both the US and abroad, Haley returned to the Bay Area, where she first worked in tech before founding Just Women’s Sports. Her goal is for the digital platform is to create equal representation of women in sports. Like Hear Her Sports, Haley often cites the stat that 44% of athletes are women and only 4% of sports media coverage.

In addition to talking about the state of women’s sports right now, the incredible opportunities in the field, and how exciting and marvelous we find female athletes, Haley shares her personal stories of a soccer career cut short due to injury.

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Brianna Decker USA Hockey Now & Future…Ep97

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:30:00 -0000

Ice Hockey super star Brianna Decker has been playing hockey at the International level for almost twenty years. She generously shares stories of playing ice hockey with her brothers, USA Hockey team camps, lessons from the Olympics, and the future for young hockey players.

Brianna represented USA in two Olympic Games where she won gold in 2018 and silver in 2014, played in seven World Championships (winning gold in six of those) and ten Four Nations Cups and one Twelve Nations Invitational Tournament Series. She is also a two-time winner of the Bob Allen Women’s Player of the Year Award and two-time CWHL Clarkson Cup winner. In 2016 Brianna helped the Boston Pride win the Isobel Cup, was two-time NWHL Most Valuable Player, 2012 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, and played on the University of Wisconsin Division 1 National Championship team in 2011. Brianna also coaches for U.S. Under-18 Women's National Team and created the Brianna Decker Endowment for Girls Hockey.

Brianna is currently playing with the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association (PWHPA) Calgary Region team.

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Dr Kirstin Lauritzen The Immune System and Building Resiliency…Ep96

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:30:00 -0000

With Dr. Kirstin Lauritzen we talk basics of the immune system, the gut, how male and female immune systems differ, and what you can do to build resiliency. Dr K is a Functional Medicine Practitioner in Wilsonville, Oregon. Her doctorate is in Chiropractic and she holds a Masters in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine. She is the founder of NW functional Medicine - a health care clinic that incorporates massage, Chiropractic, Rehab and Functional Medicine. She is also the founder of DrKirstin.com where she shares current research, articles and recipes to encourage and inspire athletes to go further with their performance and health. Dr K specializes in helping female athletes fix and prevent nutrient deficiencies so they can optimize their performance, longevity in their sport, reduce risk of injury and promote a healthy body. She is a Triathlete and is currently training for the Coure D’Alene Ironman!

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Brandie Wilkerson Deep Drive to Beach Volleyball…Ep95

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 09:30:00 -0000

Brandie Wilkerson started playing beach volleyball in 2013 after being inspired while watching the 2012 London Olympics. While she had a later start than most, her successful indoor volleyball career as a 4-time All-Star opposite hitter at York University helped her quickly adjust to the game. She made her first AVP appearance in 2017 working her way from a low-ranked qualifier team in Huntington to, eventually, the Manhattan Beach Open Finals. From there, she’s posed a threat in the Main Draw, both on AVP and the FIVB World Tour, winning FIVB World’s Best Blocker in 2018. Her team is currently ranked #7 in the world and plans to compete for Canada in the Tokyo Olympics.

Brandie Wilkerson was born in Lausanne, Switzerland to a native Swiss mother and a Texan father. She was raised in Toronto, Canada. As a multi-racial female athlete, Brandie has fallen in love with the power beach volleyball has in bringing a deeply diverse world together in a fierce, fun, competitive, entertaining, and empowering way that goes beyond the sport.

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Catherine Breed Record Breaking Open Water Swimmer…Ep94

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 09:30:00 -0000

Open water swimmer Catherine Breed swims fast for long distances in lakes and oceans. She holds four open water records, two USMS national records, and has solid goals for many more.

Catherine raced (in a pool), very successfully, for both UC Berkeley and the US National team. After graduating, she joined the Dolphin Club in San Francisco. On September 21st she completed the 25 mile swim across Monterey Bay, which she did in 12 hours and 42 minutes, setting a new record. She is only the sixth person (five of which were women) to make the swim. Her first ultra-marathon swim was crossing Lake Tahoe in 2017, where she beat both the men’s and the women’s records. Just a few months ago in October she was part of a record-breaking relay team in the Uberman Triathlon. Catherine is passionate about swimming and about making it accessible to all people. The water is a calming place for her and a safe haven. She believes everyone deserves that opportunity regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic status.

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Talya Minsberg New York Times Sports Journalist…Ep93

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:30:00 -0000

Talya Minsberg is an Assistant Sports Editor at New York Times. Previously, Talya worked as an editor on NYT’s Social team and for Special Projects. During that time, she spearheaded the newsroom’s social coverage at the Pyeongchang Olympics. Looking for great stories at the intersection of sports and society, she writes about a range of men’s and women’s sports. In the episode, Talya shares topics and athletes she’s looking forward to following in 2021, athletic drive, and advice for young journalists. Talya is a runner and surfer.

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Meg Fisher Paralympic Gold & Grit…Ep92

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 09:30:00 -0000

Megan Fisher is a Multiple Medal Winner in Paralympic Cycling at both London and Rio Olympics and is a 10x World Champion. She’s now a Certified Athletic Trainer, specializing in Sports Medicine with a Doctorate in Physical Therapy. Meg also has credentials as USA Cycling Level 3 Coach and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS).

But Meg’s road to success has not been easy. In 2002, she was involved in a tragic car accident that resulted in the amputation of her left leg, significant brain injury, and a week in a coma on a ventilator. Meg’s life’s work has been to help others unlock the potential in their bodies and develop resilience so that the stresses of time and age are less diminishing.

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Leslie Kim Dynamite Starfish…Ep91

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:30:00 -0000

In 2015, Artist and Rock Climber Leslie Kim started creating illustrations inspired by her travels to different rock climbing areas and soon combined that artwork wither love for climbing and the community of climbing. She launched her apparel company, Dynamite Starfish. She lives by the motto: "Try hard. Have fun. Care about the things you love." Hear Her Sports podcast is long-form intimate profiles of female athletes breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Kriste Peoples Throwing It All Up Against The Wall…Ep90

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:30:00 -0000

Kriste is a trail runner, adventure runner, meditation teacher, and also a speaker, writer, and media producer. She coaches women in trail running along the Front Range, leads healing hikes, and facilitates retreats which empower participants to develop skills that will serve them both in nature and in daily life. Kriste is also the founder of Black Women’s Alliance a social network centered around the wellness and healing of Black women in body and mind and has recently developed an online video series Moving Conversations where she connects with spiritual teachers, wise women, healers, and creatives about ways to engage self-care within communities hardest hit by the pandemic. Hear Her Sports podcast is long-form intimate profiles of female athletes breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Robyn Lesh American Magic…Ep89

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 08:30:00 -0000

Robyn Lesh is a design engineer with American Magic, a racing boat preparing for the America’s Cup. Robyn manages weight and center gravity of the boat as well as being in charge of 3D printing, 3D scanning and 3D virtual reality. Robyn grew up in Washington State and has been sailing since she was 6 days old. She graduated from MIT in 2016 where she spent four years as a varsity Skipper on the MIT sailing team and earned her degree as a mechanical engineer-ocean engineer.

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Rhian Ravenscroft Speak Up Every Time…Ep88

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:30:00 -0000

In the midst of cancelled races and uncertainty, Vice Director of The Cyclists’ Alliance, Rhian Ravenscroft is looking to rethink how women’s cycling and racing is structured. We talk about the current situation at the UCI, The Cyclists’ Alliance, their recent Rapha Foundation grant, and inequity in cycling.

The Cyclists’ Alliance is the labor organization representing professional cyclists in UCI Women's World Tour events. Rhian is a corporate and commercial lawyer with 15 years experience. As the Vice-Director, she is in charge of working with stakeholders like the UCI, teams, and race organizers on a daily basis. Like everyone who works at The Cyclists’ Alliance she is a former racer. Rhian raced competitively from the age of 9 as a runner, triathlete, and cyclist.

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Sarah Axelson 48th Anniversary Title IX…Ep87

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 08:30:00 -0000

Sarah Axelson, Title IX expert, Senior Director of Advocacy at the Women’s Sports Foundation joins the show in honor of the 48th anniversary of Title IX on June 23rd, 2020. She gives a fascinating history of the law, how it works, unfulfilled promises, and hope going forward. Sarah is a lifelong athlete, considers herself a byproduct of Title IX, played 4 years of NCAA Division III varsity softball. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Mary Washington and recently received her Master of Public Administration degree through the Executive MPA program in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College.

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Deanna Belleny Diversify Dietetics…Ep86

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 08:30:00 -0000

Deanna Belleny Co-Founder of Diversify Dietetics earned her Bachelor’s degree in Human Nutrition and Foods at the University of Houston and her Master’s in Public Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health. She is the Program Manager for Systems Transformation at Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care. Diversify Dietetics increases the racial and ethnic diversity in the field of nutrition by empowering nutrition leaders of color. Join our conversation on nutrition, mentorship, systematic racism in health care, inequity exposed by the current health crises, and what she sees in the future beyond the pandemic.

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Marinel de Jesus Earth Is Beautiful…Ep85

Thu, 04 Jun 2020 08:30:00 -0000

Marinel de Jesus, founder of Peak Explorations, is a lawyer, writer, a public speaker, a world traveler, and a nomad who leads tours most often high-altitude mountain trekking all over the world. In 2016, she launched Peak Explorations and Brown Gal Trekker with the mission to create inclusion for local/indigenous women in the trekking tourism industry as guides and porters worldwide. She just completed, We Are Nomads: A True Story of an All Women Migration in Altai, her first documentary film, made in collaboration with local Kazakhs. We talk about her documentary, power dynamics in trekking, women leaderships as porters and guides, and traveling in the future.

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Faith Dismuke Sprint Dreams…Ep84

Thu, 21 May 2020 08:30:00 -0000

Former track and field pro athlete and new novelist Faith Dismuke ran for Villanova an NCAA Division I school and for USA Track and Field. In 2015, Faith earned a Master’s degree from the University of Connecticut with a focus on media's influence on the representation and psychology of student-athletes of color. Her first novel Sprint Dreams is the story of eighteen-year-old college sophomore, Makeda Delane. It’s the story of track and field, determination to make it to Nationals, relationships, and being at college. Faith and I talk a lot about the book, characters, and her inspiration.

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Tamara Gorman Extra Year…Fast Track 10

Thu, 14 May 2020 12:45:00 -0000

Team USA Triathlete Tamara Gorman won two World Triathlon Championships (as a junior and as an Under 23 competitor). In 2019 she medaled in three Triathlon World Cups. Tamara had her sights on making the Tokyo Olympic Team. Then, in mid-February 2020, she had surgery, throwing that into question. Now fully recovered, she’s taking advantage of the extra year before Tokyo to get stronger and better. For right now she offers a wise goal of just training to be the best each day. We also talk about finding water to swim in, training by feel and by data, and traveling by plane and car to get home.

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Maggie Steffens Don’t Be Shy of your Dreams…Ep83

Thu, 07 May 2020 08:30:00 -0000

Maggie Steffens, two-time Olympic Gold medalist, MVP at both 2012 and 2016 Games. In London 2012, her first Olympic Games, Maggie tied the record for most goals in an Olympics with 21. Maggie has also won three World Championship Golds, three NCAA Championship titles while at Stanford, and, in 2017, was named Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches Player of the Year. Maggie is actively training and is Team Captain upcoming Tokyo Olympics. She talks about data in sport, shares her experience of Tokyo Olympics postponement, training without a pool, expanding exposure of role models, value of more stories of female athletes, sport IQ, beauty and difficulty of water polo.

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Tamyra Mensah Stock Proudly Dominant…Ep82

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:30:00 -0000

Tamyra Mensah Stock current World Champion wrestler is on her way to Tokyo Olympics. This year she dominated by winning golds at Pan American Games, Pan American Championships, Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin, and Dan Kolov International Championship. She is ranked number 1 in US at 68 kilos. And to top that all off she won the United World Wrestling’s women’s wrestler of the year. Tamyra shares the best description I’ve heard of what it’s like to work with a coach along with important stories about being proudly dominant on and off the mat.

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Olga Harvey Women’s Sports Foundation Lessons From Sports Fast Track

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 08:30:00 -0000

Olga Harvey, Chief Strategy and Impact Officer at the Women's Sports Foundation on how WSF is handling a new reality of social distancing and how they are pivoting plans to stay focused on their mission of enabling all girls and women to reach their potential in sports and life.

Olga is a native of Moscow, Russia. She received a Business degree from Cornell University while playing D1 tennis. Olga was the team captain and holds a 21-0 record in Ivy League singles play. She was two-time Ivy League Player of the year and was inducted into Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame. To this day, Olga is an avid tennis player and volunteer with USTA. She serves as the Officer on the USTA Eastern Board of Directors and is a member of the USTA National Committee for Diversity and Inclusion.

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Tracy Fober At Home Movement Based Fitness… Ep81

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 08:30:00 -0000

Physical therapist, coach, strength trainer Tracy Fober talks body weight training and movement based fitness. Training at home doesn’t mean limiting athletic development. Tracy’s methods can be used to great effect even once we all can train wherever we want again. Tracy owns Iron Maven Performance Health, in Park City, Utah. She worked with US Ski & Snowboard leading up to 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeonchang. Her clients range from young, old, those rehabbing after injury, and professional athletes. She also talks xc ski team, women coaches, and battling Covid 15.

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Katie Nageotte Training During Covid-19 Fast Track 8

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 08:30:00 -0000

Katie Nageotte, one of the top American pole vaulters, currently ranked 4th in the world, so also one of the best in the world explains how she’s training during Covid-19 and what her plans are going forward now that Olympics are postponed. In 2017 she started training with coach Brad Walker and has been making incredible gains for the past several years. Some recent results include a Gold medal at the 2018 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships and a Silver at 2019 Pan Am Games.

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Sarah Kelleher Flourish… Ep80

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 08:30:00 -0000

Sarah Kelleher is a high performance coach and strategic consultant supporting individuals, teams, and organizations to flourish. She is Associate Consultant Team Coach at Leading Edge, a performance coaching company. Sarah has been involved in high performance coaching at the international level for over eight years currently in her sixth cycle as Lead Coach, England Hockey Under 18 Girls with experience as assistant coach to GB / England Under 21s. (And we’re talking field hockey her.) Her extensive coaching combined with her own senior international playing career, spanning 10 years AND as Irish Captain, provides her with an in-depth understanding of what it takes to maximize performance in a team.

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Lucinda Brand Try Everything Fast Track 2020_03_20

Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:15:00 -0000

Lucinda Brand professional Dutch road and cyclocross cyclist on coronavirus in March 2020, training with uncertainly, Olympics, and the past cyclocross season. She has been a profressional rider for eleven years. On the road she’s won four Dutch National Championships, GP de Plouay-Bretagne, three stages in the Giro d’Italia Femminile, and the World Championships team time trial. During this past cycloscross season she won three world Cup races: Namur, Grand Prix Erik de Vlaeminck, VLA-mink and Grand Prix Adri van der Poel.

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Patricia Destine Row New York… Ep79

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 08:30:00 -0000

Patricia Destine, now a middle school coach at Row New York started in Row New York as a high schooler, still rows, kickboxes, and is working towards a career as Youth Development Personal Sports Specialist. She gives us a terrific insider’s view into young athletes because she’s been working with these kids for years and because at 22 she’s close to their age. We talk about middle school girls leaving sports too frequently, her methods to prevent that, nutrition for athletes and models, and what it’s like to row in New York waterways.

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Bryce Wettstein Skateboard By Heart… Ep78

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:30:00 -0000

Bryce Wettstein is a professional skateboarder and 2019 USA National Champion for Women's Park format. This summer will be the first time skateboarding is in the Olympics and Bryce is on Team USA Skateboarding with a shot at skating Park in Tokyo. Bryce travels a lot to compete, keeps up with school, surfs, plays volleyball, and writes songs on her ukulele. She’s been skating since she was very young and even has a little, wooden bowl in her backyard. We talk creativity, details of the sport, language, goals, equal pay, tricks, music, and art.

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Dagmara Wozniak Winning Well … Ep77

Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:30:00 -0000

Sabre fencer Dagmara Wozniak is a two time Olympian – London in 2012 and Rio in 2016, where she won a team bronze medal. After recent ankle surgery she is now actively training and competing to make the Tokyo2020 Olympic team. Dagmara is 2018 Pan Am Championship gold medalist and 2015 Pan Am Games Gold Medalist. She also speaks at schools about body positivity and determination. She inspires with stories of rehab, Lindsey Vonn documentaries, winning well, strength training, whoop, and how sports is like art.

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Jacqie McWilliams Commissioner Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association … Ep76

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:30:00 -0000

Jacqie McWilliams Commissioner of the CIAA spent nine years at the NCAA, managing NCAA championships. She was a student-athlete at Hampton University where she was a champion basketball and volleyball player. Jacqie earned a BA in Psychology from Hampton University and a Masters degree in Sports Management and Administration from Temple University. She currently serves on the board for Women Leaders in College Sports, NCAA Board Ad Hoc Committee for Cultural Diversity, and NCAA Board of Governors Federal and State Legislation Working Group.

We talk about losing, managing work, physical health, spiritual health, and being a mother, her influences growing up, history, not everything is an emergency, having a great team and great advisors.

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Christina Vassallo Active (not Athletic) With Diabetes Fast Track 6

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:30:00 -0000

Christina Vassallo, curator and arts administrator, just named Executive Director of Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Christina is also an avid cyclist with Type 1 diabetes. For the past six years she’s been the ED of Spaces Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio. This Fast Track consists of excerpts about her diabetes, bike commuting, and bike touring. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Katie Visco Following Dreams Across Australia… Ep75

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:30:00 -0000

Katie Visco ran across Australia. 2200 miles, more than three months, a marathon plus each day. Her husband Henley Phillips pedaled a bicycle loaded up with 350 pounds of gear, food, and water making it the first ever bicycle-supported transcontinental run across any country. In 2009, Katie became the 2nd youngest and 13th woman to run across America. While make that trip from Boston to San Diego, she also spoke to more than 200 audiences encouraging people to go for their big dreams. We talk about having a life purpose, letting the next best decision manage big projects, the huge value of telling stories, water, climate, and taking care of the planet.

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Laura Moretti Reece Fuel The Body Fast Track 2020_01_09

Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:30:00 -0000

Laura Moretti Reece, Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics currently part of the Female Athlete Program and Sports Medicine/ Orthopedics Team at Boston Children's Hospital specializes in sports performance-based nutrition, treating low energy availability, disordered eating, and eating disorders in athletes. She works with Olympic and professional athletes, colleges and universities, professional sport and dance facilities and is consulting dietitian for Boston Ballet Company and US Rowing. Laura is an athlete herself. She is a competitive triathlete and a three-time Boston Marathon qualifier and finisher. We talk carbohydrates, keto, Mary Cain, REDs, Oregon Project, Nutrition. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Hannah Jennings STRONG!… Ep74

Thu, 02 Jan 2020 09:30:00 -0000

Competitive Strongman and Strength Coach Hannah Jennings has been active in the weight room since high school, competes in both Powerlifting and Strongman events and holds multiple state and a world records. She is also a coach helping women get stronger and building their self belief so they can also start living their strongest life. We talk being the strongest in the room, competition jitters, confidence, huge value of a coach, and grip strength.

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Lilah Thompson Bring People Up Fast Track 2019_12_26

Thu, 26 Dec 2019 09:30:00 -0000

Lilah Thompson, high school sophomore volley standout discovered volleyball only about a year ago. She has absolutely found her sport and shines at it! She is the only sophomore on her school’s Varsity volleyball team and plays for Avidity Volleyball Club on the top-level team for her age group. She has been recognized with the Most Improved Award for the 2018 season, named a New England Conference All-star in the Fall of 2019, and was just named one of the best high school athletes of the season in The Boston Globe. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Hannah Stodel Challenging Perceptions… Ep73

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 09:30:00 -0000

Hannah Stodel, 3 time World Champion, 4 times Paralympian. Hannah was born without a lower right arm. At 15 she started competing with her eyes on the Paralympics and now she is preparing for the Vendee Globe, and incredible, solo around the world race. Hannah talks about love of sailing, confidence, her studied preparations for the Vendee, and unicorn duct tape and chocolate. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Jessica Berman Deputy Commissioner, National Lacrosse League Fast Track 2019_12_11

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 09:30:00 -0000

Jessica Berman, Deputy Commissioner and Executive Vice President of Business Affairs at the National Lacrosse League, first woman to hold the title of Deputy Commissioner at any professional sports league in North America and now highest-ranking woman in men’s professional sports leagues. She shares great stuff on emerging sports leagues, big career moves, creative time while running, collecting people, confidence, imposter syndrome and her new position. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Lia Neal Surrounded By the Right People… Ep72

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 09:30:00 -0000

Lia Neal, Olympic swimmer, Stanford grad, now pro competing in International Swimming League. Lia won bronze and silver medals in the 4x100 freestyle relays at the 2012 & 2016 Olympic Games, was first woman of Black descent to swim an Olympic final for the US and won a gold medal at the Junior World Championships. She shares stories of training, swimming as kid in Brooklyn, giving back, what’s it like being at the Olympics, and finding a bit of balance as a new pro. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Cheryl Cooky Looking Into 4% Sports Media Coverage … Ep71

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:30:00 -0000

Cheryl Cooky, associate professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Purdue University, expert in gendered media representations of sport talks in depth about low quantity and quality of sports media coverage of women. She covers Olympics, World Cup Soccer, Caster Semenya, and what sports tells us about culture. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Lisa Keller Cancer Survivor as Athlete Fast Track 2019_11_07

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 19:16:05 -0000

Lisa Keller cancer survivor, coach, and triathlete owns Multisport Training of Alaska, coaching for triathletes, is General Manager of Running Free Alaska, coaches at Hiland prison in Anchorage. She’s a founding board member of the Alaska Run for Women, winner of the Gold Nugget Triathlon and the Eagle River Triathlon and is a two-time Alaska Triathlete of the Year and has achieved All-American status in USA Triathlon age group rankings. Hear Her Sports Fast Track are short topical conversations with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Danielle Williams Tell A Different Story … Ep70

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0000

Danielle Williams, Skydiver, Founder and Senior Editor of the blogging platform Melanin Base Camp Founder of Diversify Outdoors, and Co-Founder of Team Blackstar Skydivers. She’s currently producing a short film about black Canadian climbing prodigy Sabrina Chapman. We talk mothers, diversity, story telling, and community. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Julie Pedalino Custom Bike Fit Fast Track 2019_10_24

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 15:30:00 -0000

Julie Pedalino bike builder with passion for ornament fancy lugs steel bikes talks importance of bike fit. Hear how small changes make a bike difference for comfort and riding fun. Hear Her Sports Fast Track are short topical conversations with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Sibyl Jacobson Going Great Guns … Ep69

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0000

76 year old triathlete Sibyl Jacobson 2-time ITU Triathlon World Champion, 2-time IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion shares her stories about competing as an older athlete, training, Title IX, sports she did as a kid, starting her athletic career as a 61 year old, and aging. She seeks things that frighten and challenge her, wants to continue competing into her 80s, and has some wise words for us. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Dawn Scott US Soccer High Performance Periods...Ep68

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0000

Dawn Scott, USA Soccer’s Women’s National Team High Performance Coach covers her work incorporating science of menstrual cycles with training, what her days are like training with the team, extreme importance of strength training, the upcoming packed schedule for the USA soccer players, and how you can take advantage of everything she’s learned in nine years as coach for USWNT. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Eline Mets Celebrate Badass Motorcross Ep67

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:30:00 -0000

Motocross Racer and filmmaker Eline Mets is the first woman in Canada to jump her dirt bike onto an airbag, a motocross champion, and is the creator of Diaries of Badass Chicks. She won grant money from the Telus Storyhive Web Series and made the TV show’s pilot. Eline is bringing women in motorcross to mainstream. We get into being taken seriously, getting the proper gear and equipment for high level performance, ageism, learning to ride with a bunch of little kids, and feeling indestructible as a motorbike rider, plus, because that’s our thing, inequity in the world of motocross. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Ep66 Elana Meyers Taylor Set Sights Really, Really Big

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 08:30:00 -0000

Bobsledder, Elana Meyers Taylor 4 time World Champion, 3 time Olympic medalist, and 2015 World Cup Champion, first woman to compete on US National Team with men as a 4-man bobsled pilot, and president of the Women’s Sports Foundation joins podcast this week. We talk about why competing in the 4-man bobsled is so important, big long term goals!, insiders view of WSF, concussions, Taekwondo, bobsled, and the recently released report by Women’s Sports Foundation and Nike titled “Coaching Through a Gender Lens: Maximizing Girls’ Play and Potential”. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Ep65 Felisha Legette-Jack You Matter

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 08:30:00 -0000

Felisha Legette-Jack, University of Buffalo Women’s Basketball Head Coach. She cares about all her players long after college career ends. We talk about Hanna Hall’s video about struggling with anorexia, overcoming fear, lifting up all women, and coaching. At U Buffalo, Coach Jack has 143 wins, 2 MAC Championships, 4 postseason appearances, the 1st Draft Pick in school History with Cierra Dillard, and this year she led Bulls to the 2nd round of NCAA Tournament for the second straight year. Coach Jack is the coach you want. Motivating, tough, and loving. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Ep64 Haylie McCleney 24/7 Focus on Tokyo2020

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:30:00 -0000

Haylie McCleney professional softball player, member of USA Softball Team, 4-Time All-American from University of Alabama, strength coach at Florida A&M 2-time world champion and 2017 Pan-American Games Silver Medalist. Softball is back in the Olympics and she is working 24/7 to make that Tokyo2020 roster. Our topics include weight training for everybody, her own training, time management, current status of softball, social media as pro woman athlete. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Ep63 Tenzin Namdol Cyclo-Touring to Extra Dangerous

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 08:30:00 -0000

Nam is a first generation Tibetan-American, cyclo-tourer, nature enthusiast, and budding travel writer. Through environmental activism, climate change, and reducing use of fossil fuels she started bike commuting everywhere. She now rides her bicycle full time and advocates for more gender and racial diversity within the outdoors industries. Nam is a co-founder of WTF Bikexplorers, a nationwide group that brings together women, transgender, femme, and non-binary cyclists for a 3-day summit and organizes long distance bike-packing tours throughout the country. We chat sexism in cycling, joy of bikes, being an immigrant, diversity, climbing, adventure, women bike mechanics + so much more. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Ep62 Sensi Graves Big Beautiful Life

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 08:30:00 -0000

Sensi Graves is a professional kiteboarder, coach, swimwear designer, entrepreneur, and writer. She launched Sensi Graves Bikinis to create suits that actually stay on in rough conditions of the surf. Her mission: empower women in watersports by giving them the confidence they need and the swimwear they can rely on. Sensi is a four times nominee for AWSI kiteboarder of the year and is ranked 3rd on the Kite Park League World Tour in 2017. Sensi Graves Bikinis has been recognized by Self Magazine as a top suit for sports and is the winner of the 2017 SELF Healthy Living Awards. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Ep61 Erica Ayala Women’s Hockey Now

Thu, 30 May 2019 08:30:00 -0000

Erica Ayala New York-based sportswriter, broadcaster, and podcaster joins #hearher sports to talk about the current quickly changing situation in women’s professional hockey.

Erica writes covers WNBA for The Athletic, has contributed women’s sports coverage to ESPNW, The Guardian, The Hockey News, Think Progress, WBAI Sports Qualified, and is a ringside reporter for the National Women’s Hockey League.

Erica has insider’s perspective and has talked to players recently and over the years. As she says, emotions are hot. Stay tuned for reasons for that and for Erica’s vision of a long-term ideal.

Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Ep60 Rebecca Ross Name Drops Mountains

Thu, 16 May 2019 08:30:00 -0000

Rebecca Ross climber, mountaineer, photographer, adventure seeker. Rebecca recently won the McNeill Nott award, which she will use for an expedition in Mongolia in 2020. In Spring 2019 she will climb two peaks in the Republic of Georgia. In 2018 she lead a grant funded expedition to Pico de Orizaba in Mexico. Those are just a few of the climbs she’s done in the past few years since starting the sport in 2017. We talk climbing, safety, fear, lack of solid goals, training, diversity, altitude, photography, adventure, and gear for shorter people. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

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Ep59 Naya Tapper Scoring Machine

Thu, 02 May 2019 08:30:00 -0000

Naya Tapper, rugby superstar, top try scorer for the USA Women's Eagles Sevens team began rugby career at UNC in 2012. In 2016 earned spot on USA Women's Eagles. She’s now training for the 2020 Olympics at the Olympic Training Center with her teammates. Because opportunities rugby brought her, Naya works to grow the sport for women and youth.

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Ep58 Jen Gurecki Demand Exceptional

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 08:30:00 -0000

Jen Gurecki, CEO of Coalition Snow, a woman founded ski & snowboard company, Editor in Chief, SISU magazine, Co-host Juicy bits podcast, and Founder of Sawadisha joins HHS to talk about creating quality women’s equipment versus “pinking down” something designed and made for by men, LBGTQ, being kind, speaking up, dealing with making mistakes, and her next adventure, cycling in Nepal.

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Ep57 Gymnast Rachel Haines Forgiving

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 08:30:00 -0000

Gymnast Rachel Haines was a two-time member of the US Women’s Gymnastics team, two-time National Champion, and Division 1 college gymnast at University of Minnesota where she studied child psychology and earned a master’s degree in family social science.

She’s just come out with her memoir, Abused, about her time as a gymnast and as Survivor 195 in the Larry Nassar case.

She writes in detail about breaking her back in 3 places and everything she did to stay in the sport after that. Mostly Rachel uses the lens of her psychology training to dissect her time in the sport. She focuses on the culture of gymnastics, being a driven teenager, her own process of healing, forgiving, moving on, and creating a great life after sport.

Rachel now coaches young gymnasts and implements her own ideas about improving the sport. We talk about balancing being a strong competitor, safety, and the process of improving and becoming a good person.

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Ep56 Lisa Keller Take Up Space

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:00:00 -0000

Lisa Keller owns Multisport Training of Alaska, is General Manager of Running Free Alaska, bringing running to the women prisoners at Hiland prison in Anchorage. She’s a founding board member of the Alaska Run for Women, two-time Alaska Triathlete of the Year and has achieved All-American status in USA Triathlon age group rankings. Lisa has stories of how sports power gives power to women. Long-form interviews with female athletes breaking boundaries, sharing secrets to speak up, live with power & confidence, and do amazing things.

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Ep55 Mallory Hatmaker Running is Treatment

Thu, 07 Mar 2019 09:30:00 -0000

Runner and Nurse Mallory Hatmaker talks postpartum depression, being a mom running as treatment, taking care of herself first, work-family-exercise balance, meditation, speed, competition, and constraints of real life and body. All in Episode 55. Long-form interviews with female athletes breaking boundaries, sharing secrets to speak up, live with power & confidence, and do amazing things.

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Ep54 Ashli Pratt Track Sprinter Ready To Win

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:30:00 -0000

Ashli Pratt senior track sprinter at Laurel on wanting more African Americans in movies, finding a voice, winning, being confident and vibrant, choosing a college, neuroscience, women of color as part of #metoo, living in Glenville, plus nutrition and weight lifting. Long-form interviews with female athletes breaking boundaries, sharing secrets to speak up, live with power & confidence, and do amazing things. Conversation recorded for Hear Her Sports Glenville, a neighborhood stories project sharing the power of sports for girls and women to break through barriers.

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Ep53 Ninja Warrior Meagan Martin Fun Power

Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:30:00 -0000

Meagan Martin – Ninja Warrior superstar, professional climber, USA Team climber, powerful model for Athleta, and commentator for USA Climbing on ESPN joins HHS for Episode 53. Meagan shares her thoughts about the impact of sports for kids, girls and women, the value of mentors, painted nails, body image, goals, aging, and she has some final wise words. Long-form interviews with female athletes breaking boundaries, sharing secrets to speak up, live with power and confidence, and do amazing things.

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Ep52 Climber Mary Grace Stocker Seeking Adventure On Her Own

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:30:00 -0000

Mary Grace Stocker talks solo adventures, financial security, saving money, climbing in Yosemite, empowering other women, vertical wilderness, breaking from expectations all in Episode 52. Long-form interviews with female athletes breaking boundaries, sharing secrets to speak up, live with power and confidence, and do amazing things.

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Ep51 Cecelia Townes Fearless, Boosy, Tenacious GladiatHer

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:30:00 -0000

Sporty Esquire Cecelia Townes is a former tennis player at Howard University and a graduate of UCLA School of Law. She founded GladiatHers LLC to empower women who want to achieve their maximum potential. She is dedicated to helping women discover and walk in their purpose, improving the image of women in sports, and on preparing athletes for life after sports. Cecelia serves on the Board of Directors of the national non-profit Play Like a Girl! and is a contributing writer for ESPNW. There’s lot’s of goodies in the conversation including about scarcity, meditating, negotiating, and my favorite -- a bit about how meal planning is rubbish. Long-form interviews with female athletes sharing secrets to speak up, live with power & confidence, and do amazing things.

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Ep50 Biathlete Deedra Irwin puts in the work for biathlon

Thu, 27 Dec 2018 10:00:00 -0000

USA Biathlete Deedra Irwin loves putting in the work to improve herself. She's training for the 2020 winter Olympics in Beijing. We get into details of shooting and skiing, managing nerves, injuries and recovery, her supportive biathlon teammates, traveling, donuts (nutrition) and dogs.

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Ep49 Sarah Ditmars Proving People Wrong

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:30:00 -0000

Sarah Ditmars, kinesiologist, hockey coach, and personal trainer joins Hear Her Sports to talk heartbreak, who’s an athlete, breaking boundaries, fitting workouts into a already packed schedule, being an underdog, and nutrition. She is the 2017 Ontario Junior Hockey League Trainer-of-the-Year and recently introduced her Former Female Athlete Program. Long-form interviews with female athletes sharing secrets to speak up, live with power & confidence, and do amazing things.

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Ep48 sculler Sophie Calabrese Losing is the Worst

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 09:30:00 -0000

Sophie Calabrese won GOLD medal in the Quad Scull at the CanAmMex Regatta in Mexico City this summer. She talks about the race, competing, the intense selection process, training, coaching herself, backwards treadmilling, how music and sports relate, the Head of the Charles, and not losing. This is an excellent episode to share with high school athletes or their parents, with rowers, and athletes that need just a little extra motivation to get a bit more from their sport. Sophie loves being competitive, loves being an athlete, and is pursuing elite rowing with real smarts.

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Best Wishes Thanksgiving Message

Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:30:00 -0000

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody. Welcome to Hear Her Sports! We are taking this week off for the holiday but will be back with a new episode next week.

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Ep47 Laelae Amituanai and Hannah Hall 1 Team 1 Family

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 09:30:00 -0000

Youngstown State Women's Rugby players, Laelae Amituanai and Hannah Hall join the podcast in Episode 47. We talk rugby, team bonding, training, aggression, strategy, nutrition, Chipotle, their two coaches and conditioning trainer, fundraising, and so much more about being a college athlete.

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Ep46 Jude Gerace Lively Wheels To Positive Outcomes

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 08:30:00 -0000

Jude Gerace, owner of Sugar Wheel Works, joins us in Episode 46. We talk wheel building, running a small business, being one of the few women in the cycling industry, mentors, getting involved in the community, bike riding, sustainability, Safe Routes to Schools, and a bit about puppies. Hear Her Sports Female where athletes share secrets to speak up, live with power & confidence, and do amazing things.

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Ep45 XC skier Alayna Sonnesyn College to Pro

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 08:30:00 -0000

Cross Country Skier Alayana Sonnesyn is a first year pro with the Straton Mountain T2 Elite Team. In Episode 45 we talk about the transition from college to a professional athlete, pre-season training in New Zealand, ski techniques, good climbing tips, and goals for the nordic season and beyond to 2022 Olympics. Hear Her Sports podcast is long-form interviews with female athletes sharing secrets to speak up, live with power & confidence, and do amazing things.

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Ep44 UNIQUE with Margo Burke

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:30:00 -0000

Margo Burke is a funny, politically opinionated middle schooler. She also speed skates. In Episode 44 we talk training, skates, dry land training, value of sports, books, school, World War II, politics, and teamwork vs going at it solo.

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Ep43 Collette Smith 1st African American Female Coach In NFL

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:30:00 -0000

Collette Smith is 1st African American female coach in the NFL, 1st female coach of the NY Jets, former player with NY Sharks women's professional football team, and founder of Believe N You, Inc. In Episode 43 we talk empowering black youth, girls and women, value of mentors, coaching, Up2Us, learning from family, loving herself through football, and National Women's Football Conference. Hear Her Sports podcast where athletes share secrets to speak up, live with power & confidence, and do amazing things.

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Ep42 Iris Slappendel founder The Cyclists’ Alliance women’s sport union

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 08:30:00 -0000

Iris Slappendel, founder The Cyclists’ Alliance women’s sport union talks about current state of women's cycling, the needs of women athletes, and successes in the past six months, UCI, insurance, sporting ethics and safety. Episode 42 Hear Her Sports where female athletes share secrets to speak up, live with power & confidence, and do amazing things.

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EP41 Benita Fitzgerald Mosley Olympic Gold Medal Hurdler - Power of Sport

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 08:30:00 -0000

Benita Fitzgerald Mosley Olympic Gold Medalist in 100 meter hurdlers talks about role as CEO of Laureus, the power of sport to improve lives of youth and unite communities, also Tabata, USA Women's Hockey, and using biomechanics to improve performance and win Olympic Medals.

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Ep40 Blake Cason Climber and Coach talks mountains

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 08:30:00 -0000

Alpine Climber and Integrative Wellness Coach Blake Cason shares her journey in climbing, preparing for upcoming trips, humility, ego, confidence, trying over and over, yoga, meditation, meal planning, nutrition, unanswered emails, saying no, and what coaching is all about.

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Ep39 Kristen Lamb triathlete, coach grew up with female athletic role models

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 08:30:00 -0000

Triathlete and coach, Kristen Lamb joins me this week. It was really fun to talk about her incredibly active childhood. Her mom coached at St. Lawrence University for 34 years, so Kristen was surrounded by amazing athletic role models from her mom to all the college athletes she saw training and competing. On Hear Her Sports, female athlete podcast, female athletes share secrets to speak up, live with power & confidence, and do amazing things.

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Ep38 Ambreen Tariq Promotes Greater Diversity in Outdoors

Thu, 24 May 2018 08:30:00 -0000

Ambreen Tariq, founder of Brown People Camping promotes greater diversity in our public lands and outdoors community. We talk about the positive impact of experiencing the outdoors as a kid, cooking outdoors, loving bad weather, car camping, a girl trip, photography, adventure, finding solutions to increase diversity in our public lands, gender, representation, capacity, saying no, and more.

Female athletes share secrets to live with power and confidence, speak up, and do amazing things in today’s changing world.

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Ep37 Stacia Suttles Motivating Others

Thu, 10 May 2018 08:30:00 -0000

Stacia Suttles, aka The Natural is an amateur boxer on Team USA preparing for Olympics Tokyo2020. After getting to the finals in the New York Daily News Golden Gloves in the Barclays Center, Stacia returned to win the Golden Gloves twice in 2016 and 2017. She is also 2016 National golden gloves silver medalist, 2015 Metro Champion, 2016 USA National Champion, and 2017 International gold and bronze medalist. We talk about having an Olympic goal, being relatively new to the sport, coming back from losses, signing with a modeling agency, women in boxing, making weight, motivating others, and more.

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Ep36 Liz Sampey The Sky Is Really The Limit

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 08:30:00 -0000

Professional adventure athlete Liz Sampey explores the world by bike, ski, packraft, and whatever else necessary. She talks about how expeditions fit into her life, what is home, how she creates consistency even though she never really knows where she’s headed off to next, and her amazing new project Rise Aligned bringing movement and mindfulness to young people.

Liz has long been a competitor and adventure athlete. But it was when she quit her job to make a movie in Iceland that she focused on the unknown of exploring. In addition to that fateful Iceland trip, she has recently been to Guatemala, Peru, Alaska, and Puerto Rico. She is also a Doctor of Physical Therapy, a coach, and a writer.

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Ep35 Maria Toorpakai Wazir peace through sports

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 08:30:00 -0000

Pakistani squash player Maria Toorpakai Wazir tells her story dressing as a boy to play squash, gender differences, gender equity, being strong, confident, education, Hollywood, value of sport and more on Hear Her Sports female athlete podcast.

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Ep34 Golfer Megan Khang Family First

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 08:30:00 -0000

LPGA golfer Megan Khang started playing when she was 5 1/2 years old. By 7, she was traveling and realized this is what she wanted to do for her life. It's a family effort with father coaching and caddying. We talk about being new to pro golf, working with her father, love of golf, top five goals on poster boards, training, money, her current caddie, the LPGA founders, Acai bowls, and much more. Hear Her Sports female athlete podcast covers women in sports. Each episode has inspiring thoughts to become a stronger person in mind and body.

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Ep33 Noelle Singleton #afroswimmers

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 08:30:00 -0000

Swim coach Noelle Singleton diversifying aquatics through images in #afrosimmers. She talks entrepreneurship, coaching, the importance of water, and health through meal prep and sleep.

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Ep32 Anya Alvarez future of sports is girls

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:30:00 -0000

Anya Alvarez joins Hear Her Sports to talk about her new venture Major League Girls. Her mission is to empower girls to live passionately on and off the field. We talk Olympic coverage, training, being strong, transitioning out of professional sports into a journalism career, Philadelphia, and tortilla chips.

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Ep31 Katie Jackson Horsey Happy Place

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:30:00 -0000

Para Equitation Dressage rider Katie Jackson talks cancer, training, life balance, communication with her horses, competition, Olympics, taking care of herself, and happiness in her new life as an amputee.

Her horse, Royal Dancer loves being the center of attention. Katie Jackson aims for gold at the Tokyo 2020 ParaOlympics.

Katie is focused in her training as she pays attention to details and does everything necessary to continue to up her game in the next two years leading to Tokyo2020.

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EP30 Syd Schulz Pro Enduro Racer Aims To Love Racing

Thu, 25 Jan 2018 09:30:00 -0000

Pro Enduro Bike Racer Syd Schulz explains details of her sport - a cross between downhill mountain biking and endurance. She talks about competition, social media, sponsorship, training, go pro, writing, fear, self actualization, and offers some tips on riding with others.

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Ep29 Speed Skater Elena Rigas Advantage Cornering

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 09:30:00 -0000

Speed Skater Elena Rigas from Denmark qualified for the mass start event in Pyeongchang Olympics next month. She spoke about her training, tactics of the event, awesome trainging partners, the Olympics, the difference between inline skating and racing on ice, and, of course, breakfast.

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Ep28 Felice Mueller Keep Showing Up

Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:30:00 -0000

Olympic Rower, Felice Mueller, is shaking things up in the single scull this year. She just won the Lotman Challenge, a 3-race series, and took home a big check. We talk about equal prize money (it was equal in the Lotman Challenge), Title IX, disliking rowing in high school because it was hard, her strong, female role models, and training. She has amazing words about preparing for the Olympics and the value of sport.

This episode is for young athletes and for parents of athletes. Felice has obviously thought a lot about her place in sport, the value of those before her, coaches, and what she’ll take away from a career in rowing.

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Ep27 Shelma Jun Climbing is Political

Thu, 21 Dec 2017 09:30:00 -0000

Rock climber and Flash Foxy founder, Shelma Jun talks gender, politics, training, mentors, feminism, women only spaces, empathy, mistakes, and focusing on what's close to you then expand out.

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Ep26 Elizabeth Streb Redefining Grace

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:30:00 -0000

Choreographer Elizabeth Streb investigates time, space, action, and how we interact with those three fundamental aspects of being on this earth.

Join our conversation and discover the joy of being an Action Hero and of flying.

We talk about: - space, time, movement - action is a universal language - how the audience relates to the Action Heroes - worrying too much about your body and the future - rehearsing a LOT - naming a movement you are unwilling to do, and do it - angels falling to earth

Elizabeth Streb is a choreographer, founder of the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (known as SLAM), located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and an extraordinary innovator and thinker. She has won the MacArthur Foundation Grant, two Bessie Awards, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mellon.

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Ep 25 Alison Dunlap Adventure Mom

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 09:30:00 -0000

Alison Dunlap, mountain, cyclocross, and road cyclist phenom, tells reality of being active woman and having a baby, how to stay fit and sane, some advice for new mothers, and other thoughts about raising a kid interested in physical activity and the outdoors. Alison definitely tells it like it is – no holding back, so join us.

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Ep24 Not Drowning in Synchro Monica LaStaiti

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 09:30:00 -0000

Monica's sport as a kid was marching band. Since then she's being very active as a runner, swimmer, climber, an most recently synchronized swimmer. She proves that it's never too late to find your sport. In this episode we talk about: rough patches of being a kid doing sports, not being good at cool kid sports, some details of competing in synchronized swimming, costumes, boys on the team, but mostly how much she loves being on a team as an adult

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Episode 23: Alison Tetrick Gravel Love

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 08:30:00 -0000

Alison Tetrick talks about winning Dirty Kanza, Gravel Worlds, and Rebecca's Private Idaho, She tells us how growing up in a sporty family gave her the confidence to sign up for the 200 mile Dirty Kanza even thought she’d never ridden more than 125 miles. Join us for all that, discussions of mentoring, confidence, her love of gravel races, the power of sports, what's up for next year, and she has strong words of encouragement for women interested in cycling.

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Episode 22: Cyclocross Champ Helen Wyman and Advocate Liz Cornish

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 08:30:00 -0000

Cyclocross Champion Helen Wyman talks upcoming season, World Cup, training, and pay equity. Bike Advocate Liz Cornish shares why it's important to take up space -- physically and metaphorically.

Originally from Off The Front podcast produced by Elizabeth Emery and WiSP Sports.

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Episode 21: Nichole Thompson's Tour de ACL

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 08:30:00 -0000

Nichole Thompson tells story of tearing her ACL and onerous rehab. An outstanding inspiration, she has great thoughts about getting through the ordeal plus actually gaining something from injury and setback. Orthopedic Sports Surgeon, Dr. Sabrina Strickland from Hospital of Special Surgery, starts the episode by adding a good amount of science background about women and ACLs because women do tear their ACLs more often than men. Hear Her Sports is a podcast about exceptional female athletes and women in sports. There are a lot of us out there. Find us, see us, hear us.

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Episode 20: Heidi Skolnik diet manipulation

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:30:00 -0000

This is a SPECIAL episode. Not only is it Episode 20! But my guest is superstar Sports Nutritionist Heidi Skolnik, who I worked with during my NYC racing days. I remember her with great fondness and admiration. It felt like visiting a secret weapon as I rode over the George Washington Bridge to get to her New Jersey office.

In this episode we talk about fuel vs nutrition, manipulating diet to perform better, carbohydrates, and her work with The Julliard School and School of American Ballet. She works at The Women’s Sports Medicine Center at Hospital for Special Surgery and has a private practice, Nutrition Conditioning for Life Performance.

Heidi's practice is based on the science of nutrition. She has authored and co-authored 3 books: Nutrient Timing for Peak Performance, Grill Yourself Skinny, and The Reverse Diet: Lose Weight by Eating Dinner for Breakfast and Breakfast for Dinner.

Heidi still works with private clients through her company Nutrition Conditioning for Life Performance in addition to overseeing the Sports Nutrition program at The Julliard School and School of American Ballet. In the past she’s worked with the NY Knicks, NY Giants, and NY Mets along with NHL, MLS, WNBA, Olympic competitors, professional cyclists, marathoners, and collegiate athletes. She also works at The Women’s Sports Medicine Center at Hospital for Special Surgery. And she writes for magazines, appears on TV, writes books, consults to corporations and the food industry, and presents to corporations, professional organizations, universities, and colleges.

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Episode 19 Coxswain Colette Lucas Conwell grows up with strong independent French women

Thu, 31 Aug 2017 08:30:00 -0000

French-born Colette Lucas-Conwell shares thoughts about independent French women speaking their minds. Colette is a U23 Coxswain for the US team. We also talked about rowing, of course, what it takes to be a good cox, if a cox is an athlete, Swing, title ix, and Tokyo2020. A podcast about exceptional female athletes and women in sports. There are a lot of us out there. Find us, see us, hear us.

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Episode 18 Junior cyclist Megan Jastrab moves up to the Pro Field

Thu, 17 Aug 2017 08:30:00 -0000

Hear Her Sports talks to junior cyclist Megan Jastrab. It took everything I had to remember Megan is 15 years old. She is well spoken, knows what she wants, and somehow has figured out a way to mix an enthusiastic love for cycling with focused dedication to hard, disciplined training. Our conversation gave me insight into junior cycling and some of the considerations while moving up the ranks. We talked about all that, her training, coaches, mentors, goals, Olympics, and having fun.

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Episode 17 Endurance Adventurer Katie Spotz reveals our incredible physical & mental capabilities

Thu, 03 Aug 2017 08:30:00 -0000

Endurance Adventurer Katie Spotz talks about rowing across the Atlantic, a ten day meditation retreat, training by feel, ultra marathons, water, and empowerment. A podcast about exceptional female athletes and women in sports. There are a lot of us out there. Find us, see us, hear us.

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Episode 16 Rower Maddie Wanamaker is selected for the U23 World Championships in Bulgaria.

Thu, 20 Jul 2017 08:30:00 -0000

Rower Maddie Wanamaker is selected for the U23 World Championships in Bulgaria.

A podcast about exceptional female athletes and women in sports. There are a lot of us out there. Find us, see us, hear us.

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Episode 15 Marathoner and D1 coach, Sam Bluske encourages more women to get into coaching.

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:30:00 -0000

I'm feeling incredibly lucky to have met and talked to marathoner and D1 cross country & track coach Sam Bluske. Not just because she set me straight about preparing lunch but because she loves coaching, offers great insight to future college athletes about recruiting, focuses on community and giving back. A podcast about exceptional female athletes and women in sports. There are a lot of us out there. Find us, see us, hear us.

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Pole Vaulter, Katie Nageotte tells girls there's more than one way to look healthy ...Ep14

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 08:30:00 -0000

This week I spoke to pole vaulter, Katie Nageotte, another athlete with her eyes on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. In the 2016 Olympic Trials she tied for 5th, so is certainly on her way. She was the collegiate indoor & outdoor D2 national champion in 2013 and D2 national record holder, a n alternate for the world team in 2015, and a bronze medalist at NACAC games in 2015. Her current world ranking is 12th.

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Episode 13 Olympic sailor Helena Scutt finishes her last robot and sets her sights on Tokyo 2020.

Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:30:00 -0000

Olympic sailor Helena Scutt finishes her last robot and sets her sights on Tokyo 2020. A podcast about exceptional female athletes and women in sports. There are a lot of us out there. Find us, see us, hear us.

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Episode 12 Rugby Player of the Decade, Phaidra Knight's infectious enthusiasm.

Thu, 25 May 2017 08:30:00 -0000

Phaidra Knight, USA Rugby Player of the Decade, talks about

some nerdy details about the sport that I just loved!
growth of Rugby since Rio Olympics
a few ideas about challenging gender equality
coaching youth sports
aggression
meditation & yoga
training

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Episode 11 Kayak adventure guide, Alison O'Hara getting better in her 50s instead of slower.

Thu, 11 May 2017 08:30:00 -0000

Alison guides kayak and paddleboard trips in Kachemak Bay and around Yukon Island. And she is a story-teller! Find out how she founded True North Adventures 26 seasons ago, how a Vermont debutante got to Alaska in the first place, plus some of her gripping tales of Orcas, plane crashes, and living "off the road". During the winter she is a nordic ski coach, which we also talk about.

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Episode 10 Steeplechaser Liz Weiler sets the bar higher and higher

Thu, 27 Apr 2017 08:00:00 -0000

Liz Weiler races nationally with the Saucony Hurricanes and trains in Cleveland, Ohio with the Cleveland Elite Development. She has a unique and wonderful perspective on running and training. I love her sense of adventure: "I feel like without putting yourself in stressful situations, life would be boring, so I kind of like that thrill of competing."

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Episode 9 Julie Emmerman on getting specific with what you need to have your strongest performance

Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:00:00 -0000

Julie Emmerman on getting specific with what you need to have your strongest performance

In this episode we cover:

How Sport Psychology can benefit your athletic pursuits
Advice for a hypothetical climber
Self doubt, fear of injury, work-life balance, and eating and mood disorders
Some differences between the men and women she sees
How to find a professional in your area
The process and the teachings that sport allow for
Being an ambassador for your sport

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Episode 8. Meghan Morgan talks about how sports empowers girls to be healthy inside and out.

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:00:00 -0000

Hear Her Sports, is a biweekly podcast that covers the successes and challenges of exceptional female athletes. Elizabeth Emery talks with female athletes of different levels and women in sports professions. Meghan Morgan and I talk about how sports empowers girls to be healthy inside and out. Girls in the Game is dedicated to the whole girl with programming focused on sports, health, and leadership.

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HHS Ep0007 Quinn Crum talks about fencing at Columbia, film, and people she looks up to.

Thu, 16 Mar 2017 07:30:00 -0000

Hear Her Sports, is a biweekly podcast that covers the successes and challenges of exceptional female athletes. Elizabeth Emery talks with female athletes of different levels about training, life as an athlete, what women do differently from men in their sport, and thoughts about media coverage and inequality in sports.

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HHS Ep0006 Seanna Conway talks about coaching U14 girls ice hockey, NWHL, and female athletes in the media

Thu, 02 Mar 2017 04:30:00 -0000

Seanna Conway talks about coaching U14 girls ice hockey, the current state of the National Women's Hockey League, and female athletes in the media.

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HHS Ep0005 Robin Farina talks about the Women's Cycling Association and piloting a tandem with blind para-cyclist Shawn Cheshire.

Thu, 16 Feb 2017 04:33:05 -0000

Hear Her Sports is a biweekly podcast that covers the successes and challenges of exceptional female athletes. Robin Farina talks about the Women's Cycling Association, a Tour of California twitter storm, starting her coaching business, and piloting a tandem with blind para-cyclist Shawn Cheshire.

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HHS Ep0004 170202 ST Sara Tabbert talks about skijoring with huskies & living in rural Alaska.

Thu, 02 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0000

Hear Her Sports is a biweekly podcast that covers the successes and challenges of exceptional female athletes. Sara Tabbert talks about skijoring with her Alaskan huskies and living off the grid in Fairbanks, AK.

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HHS Ep0003 170119b LH Lisa Hunt talks about bike racing, Crossfit, and managing a cycling team.

Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0000

Lisa Hunt talks about bike racing, Crossfit, how hard it is to manage a cycling team, and her aggressive training schedule.

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HHS Ep0002 170104 EH Elaine Hullihen talks about yoga, meditation, and teaching with FosteringHope.

Tue, 03 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0000

Elaine Hullihen talks about her yoga practice, teaching, mediation, splashing in water, and her lime green home-outside yoga mat.

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HHS_Ep0001 Ruth Coffey talks about her recent Boston Marathon and training

Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0000

In her lovely Irish accent, Ruth Coffey talks about her first Boston Marathon, training alone, sports bras, nutrition, and energy alignment.

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