Hear Her Sports
198 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsA biweekly podcast where amazing female athletes share stories of breaking barriers, speaking up, and living with power and confidence in today’s changing world. Hear successes and challenges of life as an athlete and thoughts about inequality in sports and media coverage.
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Mary Ellen Kelly, Sports Dietitian WNBA’s NY Liberty…Ep167
May 02, 2024 08:30 - 53 minutesMary 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 P...
AJ Hurt Alpine Ski Racer, Balancing Speed…Ep166
April 18, 2024 08:30 - 44 minutesAJ 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 F...
Beth Rodden A Light through the Cracks A Climber’s Story…Ep165
April 04, 2024 08:30 - 49 minutesBeth 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: bethrodd...
Sydney Palmer-Leger Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Falun, Sweden 2024
March 28, 2024 08:30 - 31 minutesSydney 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 i...
Kendra Coleman Pro USA Track & Field Athlete Preps for 800m Olympic Trials…Ep164
March 21, 2024 08:00 - 55 minutesKendra 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...
Julia Hayes Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Lahti, Finland & Oslo, Norway 2024
March 14, 2024 08:30 - 28 minutesSki 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 t...
Wang Ping A Poet Rower Aging Actively as Part of Nature…Ep163
February 29, 2024 09:30 - 56 minutesWang 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 o...
Leann Bentley, Cross Country Ski World Cup Race Report, Loppet Cup, Minneapolis, USA 2024
February 22, 2024 09:30 - 26 minutesLeann 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...
Kristen Bourne Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Goms, Switzerland 2024
February 15, 2024 09:30 - 30 minutesKristen 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 t...
Madeline Depman Mountain Bike Racing After Pregnancy…Ep162
February 08, 2024 09:30 - 45 minutesMadeline 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 lig...
Erin Bianco Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Oberhof, Germany 2024
February 01, 2024 09:30 - 21 minutesErin 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 impressiv...
Dr. Margo Mountjoy IOC Consensus Statement on Relative Energy Deficiency (REDs)…Ep161
January 25, 2024 09:30 - 46 minutesDr. 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...
Jessie Diggins Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Tour de Ski 2024
January 18, 2024 09:30 - 30 minutesJessie 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 ins...
Kristen Rozell Adventures in the Alaskan Wilderness…Ep160
January 11, 2024 09:30 - 54 minutesKristen 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 t...
Novie McCabe Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Trondheim, Norway 2023
January 04, 2024 09:30 - 22 minutesNovie 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 th...
Sophia Laukli Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Ostersund, Sweden 2023
December 28, 2023 09:30 - 26 minutesSophia 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 ...
Race Report: Rosie Brennan Cross Country World Cup, Gallivare, Sweden 2023
December 21, 2023 09:30 - 24 minutesBorn 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 onl...
Gina Kennedy Professional Squash Player On Being a Gladiator…Ep159
December 14, 2023 09:30 - 48 minutesGina 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 na...
Race Report: Julia Kern Cross Country World Cup, Ruka, Finland 2023
December 07, 2023 09:30 - 27 minutes2023 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 rela...
Molly Bookmyer Olympic Trials Marathon Qualifier Risk It For The Biscuit…Ep158
November 30, 2023 09:30 - 45 minutesMolly 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. Get involved and support the show and more sports media for women through https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hearher Find all episo...
Jessie Diggins Sparkly Cross Country Ski Racer, Olympic Medalist, World Champion, Author…Ep157
November 16, 2023 09:30 - 1 hourJessie 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 ins...
Barb Broad Still Finding Speed at 73 Years Old…Ep156
November 02, 2023 08:30 - 55 minutesBarb 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. A...
Janee’ Kassanavoid The Face of People with Big Goals …Ep155
October 19, 2023 08:30 - 50 minutesJanee’ 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 ...
Jaydyn McKinney OHSAA Girls Wrestling State Champion…Ep154
October 05, 2023 08:30 - 48 minutesHigh 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 ...
BONUS: Women’s Running Stories with Liz Derstine, Her Appalachian Trail FKT Story
August 10, 2023 08:30 - 1 hourLiz 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 hers...
Katherine Stewart-Jones Olympic Nordic Skier in Off Season…Ep153
July 27, 2023 08:30 - 52 minutesKatherine 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 ...
Hayley Simmonds Safety at Tour Féminin des Pyrénées …Ep152
July 13, 2023 08:30 - 1 hourHayley 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 Europea...
Sarah Douglas Canadian Olympic Sailor…Ep151
June 29, 2023 08:30 - 58 minutesBorn 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 Singap...
Dr. Angie Ridgel, Brain and Movement, High-Cadence Cycling for Parkinson’s …Ep150
June 15, 2023 08:30 - 51 minutesDr. 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, h...
Dr. Kate Ackerman, Female Athlete Conference and Wu Tsai Female Athlete Program…Ep149
June 01, 2023 08:30 - 1 hourDr. 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 me...
Christine Yu Up To Speed, The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes…Ep148
May 18, 2023 08:30 - 1 hourChristine 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. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearhersports Support the show and women’s sports media https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hearher Find all episodes...
Sammy Smith Team USA Ski & Soccer…Ep147
May 04, 2023 08:30 - 44 minutesSamantha 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 deve...
Nancy Clark Sports Nutrition Guidebook…Ep146
April 20, 2023 08:30 - 59 minutesSports 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 co...
Amanda Sobhy USA #1 Professional Squash Player…Ep145
April 06, 2023 08:30 - 52 minutesAmanda 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 wo...
Kelsey Pfendler Great Pacific Race with Hericane Rowing…Ep144
March 23, 2023 08:30 - 48 minutesSince 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 team...
Jae Gruenke Feldenkrais Practitioner…Ep143 with Women's Running Stories
March 09, 2023 09:30 - 1 hourIn 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 aske...
Kristen Bourne US Ski Team Cross Country D-Team Coach…Ep142
February 23, 2023 09:30 - 1 hourKristen 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 ...
Erika Hood Syatt Shifting the Narrative of Who is Outdoors…Ep141
February 09, 2023 09:30 - 55 minutesErika 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...
Jenny Nguyen The Sports Bra…Ep140
January 26, 2023 09:30 - 1 hourJenny 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 t...
Anouk Patty Chief of Sport US Ski and Snowboard …Ep139
January 12, 2023 09:30 - 54 minutesAnouk 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...
Sasha DiGiulian World Champion Rock Climber & Found of SEND Bars …Ep138
December 29, 2022 09:30 - 55 minutesSasha 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...
Hayley Simmonds Gravel, Iliac Surgery, & The Cyclists’ Alliance Mentorship Program …Ep137
December 15, 2022 09:30 - 59 minutesHayley 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 Cha...
Joanne Lannin Who Let Them In? Women in Sports Journalism …Ep136
December 01, 2022 09:30 - 55 minutesJoanne 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. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://ww...
Savilia Blunk 6X USA Mountain Biking National Champion…Ep135
November 17, 2022 09:30 - 52 minutesSavilia 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 Na...
Molly Seidel Olympic Marathon Bronze Medalist…Ep134
November 03, 2022 08:30 - 39 minutesOlympian 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 ...
Kathy Murray The Munich Cowboys Cheerleaders…Ep133
October 20, 2022 08:30 - 1 hourKathy 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) Che...
Kelcey Ervick Graphic Memoir, The Keeper Soccer & TitleIX…Ep132
October 06, 2022 08:30 - 50 minutesKelcey 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,...
Cherie Turner Comrades Marathon…Ep131
September 22, 2022 08:30 - 58 minutesCherie 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, a...
Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu Physiatrist and Founder of Sports Equity Lab on Madam Athlete…BONUS
August 18, 2022 08:30 - 1 hourMadam 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 ...
Nordic Combined Annika Malacinski on Keep The Flame Alive…BONUS
August 04, 2022 08:30 - 1 hourKeep 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 ...