Hear Her Sports
202 episodes - English - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★★★ - 49 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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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 ...
Kim McKenney & Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt Nordic Ski Lab…Ep130
July 21, 2022 08:30 - 1 hourKim 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...
Whitney Washington Figure It Out Over Time Bike Touring…Ep129
July 07, 2022 08:30 - 1 hourWhitney 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 ...
Bianca Smith Boston Red Sox Minor League Coach…Ep128
June 23, 2022 08:30 - 1 hour2022 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 O...
Teni Charles St.Vincent Women’s National Football Team…Ep127
June 09, 2022 08:30 - 50 minutesAsanteni 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 Ten...
Ellie Smart Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series…Ep126
May 26, 2022 08:30 - 53 minutesAmerican 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. ...
Iris Wang Badminton: Olympics and Beyond…Ep125
May 12, 2022 08:30 - 49 minutesOlympian 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 ...
Helena Gilbert-Snyder Lifetime Grand Prix & Women Belong in Cycling…Ep124
April 28, 2022 08:30 - 1 hourHelena 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...
Dr. Stacy Sims on Female Physiology and Training…Ep123
April 14, 2022 08:30 - 59 minutesStacy 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 gr...
Michelle Sechser Olympic Lightweight Double Sculls…Ep122
March 31, 2022 08:30 - 1 hourOlympian 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 ye...
Ishveen Jolly Founder Open Sponsorship…Ep121
March 16, 2022 08:30 - 40 minutesIshveen 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 Se...
Raquel Vélez Alpine Parrot Dreaming Big…Ep120
March 03, 2022 09:30 - 56 minutesRaquel 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) indus...
Tory Mather Making Weight in Lightweight Rowing…Ep119
February 17, 2022 09:30 - 46 minutesTory 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 ...
Tory Mather Making Weight in Light Weight Rowing…Ep119
February 17, 2022 09:30 - 45 minutes - 63 MBTory 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...
Cynthia Appiah Beijing Olympics Bobsleigh and Monobob…Ep118
February 03, 2022 09:30 - 36 minutesCynthia 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 sle...
Helen Wyman Free Rule Change in Cyclocross…Ep117
January 20, 2022 09:30 - 59 minutesHelen 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 prev...
Mary Wittenberg League One Volleyball (LOVB)…Ep116
January 06, 2022 09:30 - 59 minutesMary 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 i...
Nikaeda Griffie You Can Do Hard Things…Ep115
December 23, 2021 09:30 - 55 minutesNikaeda 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 ...
Starla Garcia Registered Dietitian & Endurance Runner...Ep114
December 09, 2021 09:30 - 59 minutesStarla 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 i...
Paige Alms Big Wave Surf Champion...Ep113
November 25, 2021 09:30 - 59 minutesPaige 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 lat...
Stephanie Scheirlynck Sports Nutrition...Ep112
November 11, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourStephanie 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 als...
Race Car Driver Toni Breidinger In Control...Ep111
October 28, 2021 08:30 - 53 minutes22-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 F...
Morgan Tuck Director of Franchise Development, Connecticut Sun...Ep110
October 14, 2021 08:30 - 47 minutesMorgan 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 wit...
BONUS: Keeping Track: Dalilah Muhammad Journey to the Top
August 26, 2021 08:30 - 1 hourSpecial 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 ru...
BONUS: Strides Forward: Ann Ashworth + Comrades Marathon
August 12, 2021 08:30 - 42 minutesSpecial 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...
Aifric Keogh Get Fast First…Ep109
July 29, 2021 08:30 - 57 minutesAifric 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 Eu...
Sam Moore Women Specific Training Design…Ep108
July 15, 2021 08:30 - 1 hourSam 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 cyc...
Erin Jackson Power To The Ice …Ep107
July 01, 2021 08:30 - 56 minutesErin 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 speedsk...
Pooja Kalyan Trusting What You’ve Trained …Ep106
June 17, 2021 08:30 - 49 minutesPooja 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 p...
Grace Gonzales Angel City Elite…Ep105
June 03, 2021 08:30 - 54 minutesGrace 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 run...
Muffet McGraw Hall of Fame Women’s Basketball Coach…Ep104
May 20, 2021 08:30 - 42 minutesThe 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...
Gabriela Reutter Seeing The Puzzle Picture…Ep103
May 06, 2021 08:30 - 58 minutesProfessional 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 ...
Dempsey Arsenault Beyond Her Comfort Zone…Ep102
April 22, 2021 22:14 - 39 minutesLacrosse 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 th...
Dempsey Arsenault Preparation Equals Confidence…Ep102
April 22, 2021 08:30 - 39 minutes - 55.2 MBLacrosse 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 t...
Erica Vanstone Roller Derby Sport & Community…Ep101
April 08, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutesErica 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 ha...
Erica Vanstone Roller Derby Sport & Commmunity…Ep100
April 08, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 67.1 MBErica 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 h...
Clara Honsinger US National Cyclocross Champion…Ep100
March 25, 2021 08:30 - 53 minutesTeam 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 sea...
Khadijah Diggs #nevergiveuponyourself…Ep99
March 11, 2021 09:30 - 55 minutesKhadijah 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 ...
Haley Rosen Just Women’s Sports…Ep98
February 25, 2021 09:30 - 35 minutesCEO 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...
Brianna Decker USA Hockey Now & Future…Ep97
February 11, 2021 09:30 - 41 minutesIce 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 ...
Dr Kirstin Lauritzen The Immune System and Building Resiliency…Ep96
January 28, 2021 09:30 - 1 hourWith 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 DrKir...
Brandie Wilkerson Deep Drive to Beach Volleyball…Ep95
January 14, 2021 09:30 - 43 minutesBrandie 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 Dra...
Catherine Breed Record Breaking Open Water Swimmer…Ep94
December 31, 2020 09:30 - 42 minutesOpen 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 sixt...
Talya Minsberg New York Times Sports Journalist…Ep93
December 17, 2020 09:30 - 44 minutesTalya 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 j...
Meg Fisher Paralympic Gold & Grit…Ep92
December 03, 2020 09:30 - 45 minutesMegan 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, signi...
Leslie Kim Dynamite Starfish…Ep91
November 19, 2020 09:30 - 48 minutesIn 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.
Kriste Peoples Throwing It All Up Against The Wall…Ep90
November 05, 2020 09:30 - 47 minutesKriste 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 v...