Nicole talks to a colleague at the University of Minnesota Dr. Dunja Antunovic (who first appeared in S2E11) about her latest research of women in American Football, the Women’s World Cup, and some exciting upcoming projects.

Host: Dr. Nicole LaVoi
Recorded: December 16, 2021

For more information, links and resources and hundreds more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s First and Only Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 60 hosts, 1500+ episodes across 50 shows and over 7 million downloads. We are ranked in the top 2% of more than 2.71 million podcasts worldwide. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

On this week’s episode, Nicole talks to some #disruptHERS colleagues — Drs. Katie Lebel, Nancy Lough, and Ann Pegoraro — about recent disruptions in women’s sport, which continue to make headlines. They begin with the recent situation surrounding Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, 35, a three-time Olympian, who has been missing since November 2, when she used social media to accuse Zhang Gaoli, 75, a former vice premier of China, of sexually assaulting her at his home three years ago. The IOC President Thomas Bach held a video call with Peng, which was unconvincing to experts. The many reported incidents of abuse and harassment by coaches in the National Women’s Soccer League is also discussed. They conclude with why women’s sports needs men as allies to oust offenders and why leadership in sport needs women to move the needle.

Host: Dr. Nicole LaVoi
Recorded: November 22, 2021

For more information, links and resources and hundreds more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s First and Only Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 60 hosts, 1500+ episodes across 50 shows and over 7 million downloads. We are ranked in the top 2% of more than 2.71 million podcasts worldwide. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

In this week's episode, Nicole talks with her predecessor Dr. Mary Jo Kane, Professor Emerita and Founder of the Tucker Center about perspectives on current cultural narratives and trends related to girls and women in sport, the NCAA Gender Equity Review, the Olympics and beyond.

In this episode, Nicole discusses disruptions at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games with returning guests, colleagues, Tucker Center Affiliated Scholars and #disruptHERS Drs. Nancy Lough, Katie Lebel, Dunja Antunovic. Their aim is to bring attention to the people, organizations, and events that disrupt the status quo and the normative masculine behavior model of sport. A new report on participation and viewing figures for the Tokyo Games emphasizes the value of and interest in women’s sport.

Host: Dr. Nicole LaVoi
A co-production of WiSP Sports and The Tucker Center

For more information, links and resources plus conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s First and Only Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 60 hosts, 1300+ episodes across 50 shows and over 7 million downloads. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

Joining Nicole this week is the Tucker Center team of ten summer Gender Equity Interns to talk about the projects they have worked on, the theory behind their research, what they have already learned about research, and what they want everyone to know about the Tucker Center and the work it does for women and girls in sport.

Host: Dr. Nicole LaVoi
A co-production of The Tucker Center and WiSP Sports

For more information, links and resources plus conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s First and Only Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 60 hosts, 1300+ episodes across 50 shows and over 7 million downloads. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport and WeCOACH teamed up for a special episode to discuss the latest Women in College Coaching Report Card. In this podcast, Tucker Center Director Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi and  TC Research Assistant, Courtney Boucher and WeCOACH CEO Megan Kahn review the latest results and data. They talk about data trends, grades and leaders for institutions, sports, and conferences, as well as the new race-related data, how the report card is being used to make a difference, and the WeAmplify initiative.

Hosts: Nicole LaVoi and Megan Kahn

For more information, links and resources plus conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s First and Only Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 60 hosts, 1300+ episodes across 50 shows and over 7 million downloads. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

Nicole's guest this week is Dr. Anna Baeth, Director of Research at Athlete Ally; an organization with the mission to end the rampant homophobia and transphobia in sport and to activate the athletic community to exercise their leadership to champion LGBTQI+ equality. Anna is a former Research Assistant in the Tucker Center, and forever a member of the Tucker Team. She is a field hockey and lacrosse coach, at all levels, notably was head field hockey coach at Oberlin College, a graduate of the Masters in Coaching program at Smith College and earned her BA at Swarthmore. In this week’s show we talk about code switching related to gender and competition, her dissertation research on supports for women coaches, the Athletic Equality Index she helped develop at Athlete Ally, and advice for young women scholars.

Host: Dr. Nicole LaVoi
A co-production of WiSP Sports and the Tucker Center

For more information, links and resources plus conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s First and Only Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 60 hosts, 1300+ episodes across 50 shows and over 7 million downloads. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

Nicole’s guest this week is Dr. Leslie K. Larsen, an associate professor in Kinesiology at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). She holds a PhD in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Sport Psychology from the University of Tennessee. Her research interests include cultural sport psychology, women in coaching, and coach education. She is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant through (Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) and a member of the Executive Board of the Western Society for Physical Education of College Women. She has also worked as part of the CSUS Institutional Equity Collaborative and the College of Health and Human Services Anti-Racism Task Force to develop equity and inclusion training programs for faculty and staff and to amplify student voices throughout CSUS’s campus. Leslie is a former Mental Conditioning Coach at IMG Academy and a former NCAA Division I women’s basketball coach. We talk about her research pertaining to Black female assistant basketball coaches and the multiple oppressions they face, her current work surrounding trans-athlete inclusion, and social justice, as well as valuable advice for young women scholars.

Host: Dr. Nicole LaVoi
A co-production of WiSP Sports and the Tucker Center.

For more information, links and resources plus conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s First and Only Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 60 hosts, 1300+ episodes across 50 shows and over 7 million downloads. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

On this week’s episode, Nicole talks to her disrupters [#disruptHERS] colleagues— Drs. Dunja Antunovic, Katie Lebel, Nancy Lough, Ceyda Mumcu, and Ann Pegoraro — about recent disruptions in women’s sport, and there have been many! We talk about disruption examples in sponsorship, retail, venture capital, women in sport technology, the benefit for female athletes, NFT’s, and Google’s recent announcement to sponsor 25 games of the 25th season of the WNBA and more. The key point we make is that investing in women’s sport right now is a GREAT bet. Listen in to hear our full conversation.

Join us in tagging disruptions you see by using #disruptHERS.

Host: Dr. Nicole LaVoi.

For more information, links and resources plus conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s First and Only Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 60 hosts, 1300+ episodes across 50 shows and over 7 million downloads. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

On this week's episode, Nicole talks with colleague Dr. Cheryl Cooky who is professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Purdue University. She is the co-author of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change, Past President of NASSS, current editor of Sociology of Sport Journal, Tucker Center affiliated scholar and one of the most respected critical feminist, gender and sport scholars around the globe. We talk about her newest installment of the longitudinal study on women’s and men’s sports in televised news in the U.S. aptly titled One and Done: The Long Eclipse of Women's Televised Sports. Dr. Cooky shares her advice for young scholars and we preview her upcoming book.

Host: Dr. Nicole LaVoi
A co-production between WiSP Sports and The Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport.

For more information, links and resources plus conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s First and Only Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 60 hosts, 1300+ episodes across 50 shows and over 7 million downloads. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].