Amanda Beard was just 14 years-old when she qualified for her first Olympic Games and walked away as the second youngest swimmer in history to medal with one gold and two silvers. That was just the beginning to a very successful career, in the pool and out. She went on to make the next three Olympic games, competing in a total of four Olympics where she earned seven Olympic medals (two gold, four silver, one bronze).  She has collected a total of twenty-one medals in major international competitions, a former World and American recorder holder, NCAA champ,  received  American Swimmer of the Year Award not once, but twice, eight U.S. National Titles and served as Team USA's Olympic Swim Team Captain twice. Not only did she shine in the water, she graced the pages of countless sports and lifestyle magazine as a model, brand representative also as a nonprofit advisor. Nowadays Amanda is a mother of two, wife, motivational speaker, businesswoman and author of New York Times Bestseller In the Water They Can't See You Cry, and is co-founder of Beard Swim Co.

Host: Kaitlin Sandeno

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Podcast length: 51 mins.

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This week's guest is Madison de Rozario, a three-time Paralympian, who first started wheelchair racing when she was twelve years old and competed at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics only two years later aged 14.  She won three Paralympic medals, placed first in the 5000m at the 2017 London World Para Athletic Championship, was the first Australian to win the women’s wheelchair title at the 2018 London Marathon.  Madi was the 2019 Women’s 800m World Champion, and she’s also won the Oz Day 10k wheelchair road race six times, as well as setting two world records. In between those achievements, she’s studied a bachelor’s degree and become a mentor for wheelchair athletes. In 2018, Madison was awarded Cosmopolitan’s Sportswoman of the Year and Athletics Australia Female Para-Athlete of the Year. And this year, in very exciting news, she became Barbie’s 2020 Shero and had a Barbie doll model of her.
Host: Ellie Smith & Georgina Mallon
A WiSP Sports co-production with Women Sport Australia
Podcast length: 24 mins.
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On this episode Abby will be taking a closer look at foiling sailing and chatting to two sailors who have launched themselves into foiling, specifically with the WASZP class dinghy.  First Elise Beavis who is based in Auckland, and has become a WASZP sailor and Performance Engineer with Emirates Team New Zealand. Then British based Hattie Rogers, who has come up through the ranks of youth sailing and recently tackled the transition from 29er skiff to the WASZP.  We learn a lot about WASZP as both girls share their experiences and top tips for any sailor aspiring to foil.
Host: Abby Ehler
Podcast length: 41 mins.
Sponsor: Hyland's Homeopathic Earache Drops
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On this week’s news show Chris Stafford and Nancy Gillen are joined again by Dr. Juliet McGrattan to discuss the prevalence of ACL injuries in female athletes which are linked to the menstrual cycle.  Plus the top news stories from around the world of women’s sport:
Golf: Evian Championships Cancelled
FIFA Women's World Cup
British baseball women's team and league
USOPC athlete led group
Women's basketball Nigeria
Japan Announces Inaugural Women’s Football Pro League for 2021
Women's football must escape shackles of the FA if it is to thrive after this crisis
PSA Announce Tour Suspension Extended Until Mid-August Due to COVID-19 
Host: Chris Stafford & Nancy Gillen
Podcast length: 42 mins.
Sponsor: Hyland's Homeopathic Earache Drops
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The Horse Show takes on a new look and feel this week as Chris is joined by an old friend Jane Wallace, making her podcasting debut as a co-host. Their topic of discussion is over-tight nose-bands as Jane shares her lifetime’s experience from showing ponies to international eventing, from teaching to training. She explains why taking the time for building the foundation to a house is the perfect metaphor for understanding why the principles of a broad training base are critical. Why there are times when some horses need a tight nose-band but how important it is to no over-tighten.  Jane talks about the consequences of creating this vicious circle, which is an anathema to correct training.  Some sound advice here and some reasons why competition stewards are not intercepting when they see nose-bands that are clearly too tight.  And if you stay to the end you’ll hear them have some fun as they recall some early lessons in basic equitation… and that means going back to their pony days!
Host: Chris Stafford & Jane Thelwall
Podcast length: 32 mins.
Sponsor: Hyland's Homeopathic Earache Drops
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Cass Cross is is a national-level synchronized skating coach and the Director of Skating for the Team Ashburn Synchronized Skating teams.  Cass has participated in the sport since 1995 earning many national and international medals with The Colonials Synchronized Skating teams as a member of Team USA.  She also won two national championships with the Esprit de Corps Adult synchronized skating team representing the Hayden Recreation Center FSC. Prior to moving to Northern Virginia, Cass was the Assistant Coach of the Adrian College Varsity Synchronized Skating and Figure Skating teams in Adrian, Michigan. She has coached synchronized skating teams from the beginner through elite-senior levels. 
Host: Chris Stafford
Podcast length: 31 mins.
Sponsor: Hyland's Homeopathic earache Drops
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On this episode, Nicole talks with two colleagues, Dr. Leanne Norman, Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University in the UK and Dr. Donna deHaan, Faculty of Health, Nutrition and Sport, at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. They discuss their collective work related to changing the system of sport to be more gender inclusive and favorable for women coaches, including work with UEFA and interviews we did with elite women soccer coaches from around the world.
Host: Dr Nicole LaVoi
Podcast length: 37 mins.
For more information, links and resources plus other conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s Largest Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 25 hosts, 1200+ episodes across 45 shows and a global audience of over 6 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

Chris Stafford is alongside Nancy Gillen from Inside the Games with the top stories from women's sport around the world. Their guest this week is former Welsh international footballer Jordan Guard, Co-Founder of the newly formed Women’s Sports Alliance, which is the world’s first exclusive membership club designed to protect elite individuals and organizations within women’s sports.
Stories covered this week:
American hammer thrower placed on probation for podium protest demands public apology from USOPC
IOC athlete statements
Women Fiji weightlifting
Sky Brown fall
Super Netball
Recurve Archers Shooting in June Lockdown Remote Knockout
Female membership of IOC Commissions reaches an all-time high of 47.7 per cent - two new female chairs
Female jockeys eligible for maternity leave in South Australia for the first time
England netballer Geva Mentor calls for more transparency surrounding sportswomen's fertility and menstrual cycles
Sponsor: Hyland's Homeopathic Earache Drops
Podcast length: 49 mins
For more information, links and resources plus other conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s Largest Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 25 hosts, 1200+ episodes across 45 shows and a global audience of over 6 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

Italian born Stefy Bau was one of the fastest women motocross racers in the world before she retired in 2005.  Her bio includes a list of being the first woman to achieve a number of accolades in the sport.  Stefy won three world championships, holds two WMX (USA) championships, and a title from the prestigious AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship at Loretta Lynn’s. In addition, she has won seven Italian Championships. She earned an AMA Pro Racing license and signed up for several Lucas Oil Pro Motocross and Monster Energy Supercross events, and has also raced the FIM Motocross World Championship events against the men. During her career, Stefy wasn’t afraid to take chances or to challenge herself against the top racers in the world. Alas a devastating injury to both ankles in 2005, abruptly ended her racing career.  Always looking for a new challenge she then became the General Manager of the newly established FIM International Motorcycle Federation’s Women's World Motocross Championship and has also served as CEO of the Italian motorcycle manufacturing company Fantic Bikes USA.  Stefy is a co-founder of Init ESports which produces online competitions and real life tournaments, maximizing the esports audience reach across multiple sports and platforms. Init Esports is owned and operated by three women.
Host: Chris Stafford
Podcast length: 34 mins
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On episode 3, Kaitlin Sandeno’s guest is Amy Bilquist, five time national champion, American record holder, NCAA record holder, five time international medalist, and 2016 Olympic trials finalist.  They have a candid discussion about her career and aspirations and Amy pulls no punches as she passionately shares her journey.

Host: Kaitlin Sandeno

Podcast length: 32 mins

For more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s Largest Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 25 hosts, 1200+ episodes across 45 shows and a global audience of over 6 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

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