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

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Last week England Cricket faced India in a rare Test Match for the women’s game and these two giant teams were as expected very competitive. It was a game that was followed closely by Radha Gupta from her home in New Delhi and she joins us to share her thoughts on the match that ended in a draw. Radha is a supporter of women’s sport and founder of She Talks Ball. Nancy has a round up of the news this week which is mainly focused on the Olympic Games, team selections, expectations of Tokyo and how the games will unfold with limited domestic spectators.

Hosts: Chris Stafford & Nancy Gillen

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On this week’s episode Kirstin shares with us how she is feeling one week out from her first Ironman. It's almost here and we hear about her taper week training, what that looks like as well as tips to keep in mind heading into your first race. She shares some key mindset tips to help stay focused, but also make sure to take the pressure off, especially for the first race. This could apply to your first race ever, but also your first race back if you haven't raced since 2019, or raced in a while. Kirstin also covers some tips for making sure she is prepared and doesn't forget anything as well as some last minute items and tips to remember. She recaps some of the topics we have covered this year and shares her excitement and nerves that are all merging with days to go. We hope you enjoy this episode AND make sure to come back next week because Kirstin will be recapping the whole race with us.

Host: Dr. Kirstin Lauritzen

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].

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Misty May was the national champion Long Beach State volleyball player as well as three time Olympic gold medalist, and the 1999 Honda Cup winner. Misty says she is one of the lucky ones. She was not asked to choose a sport in her youth. Rather she played multiple sports all the while living on the beach where volleyball became the sport she loved the most. Growing up in a sports oriented family with father who was a volleyball Olympian and mom a ranked tennis player, they both gave her sound advice. Her father admonished her “to play for those who can’t play “ while her Mom insisted that “when it is no longer fun, don’t do it “.

A positional switch from outside hitter to setter under the tutelage of Olympian Debbie Green at Long Beach State plus the vacancy of two setters ahead of her not only brought her collegiate team an undefeated season and national championship but it served as a groundwork for her beach volleyball success over the next 13 years. She advises athletes pursuing success that they must be willing to put in the work when no one else is around. And no doubt that is what she and her beach partners did as she won on the pro circuit and qualified for the Olympics.

Misty shares with the audience the differences between hard floor and beach volleyball training and competition, and the excitement and challenges of three Olympics - each uniquely different. The beach team of Misty and Kerri Walsh Jennings won all three gold medals and has been tabbed the greatest beach team of all times. She reflects on why she and Kerri were such a great team including both possessing great drive; holding each other accountable; having energies that counterbalanced one another and could feed off of each other; great all around games individually; common goals, and each respecting the others differences.

Looking back, sport has taught Misty not to procrastinate, to be game ready, realize life is not a sprint but a process and journey, to be a better communicator, and to make sure that choices are aligned with goals. Misty has used those skills as a mother of three daughters, and as a community college coach and personal trainer. Misty describers herself as a competitor then and a person now and what is essential to become a champion.

Host: Chris Voelz
A co-production of WiSP Sports and the Collegiate Women's Sports Awards


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On S3E13 of The WeCOACH Podcast presented by Hudl, Marci is joined by United States Marine Corps, Major Christine Taranto. For elite athletes, anxiety, depression and emotional recovery are sometimes the most devastating and most difficult obstacles to overcome post-injury. Christine shares her story of recovery and the battle within to realize she is much more than an elite runner. Adopting a new way of thinking about identity helped Christine be a better Marine, wife, dog-mom, bread-baker, friend and daughter by realizing she is more than her sport, which proved to be instrumental in her physical rehabilitation and discovering her gift of coaching and being a contributor to others.

Host: Marci Kornegay
A co-production of WiSP Sports and WeCOACH

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].

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Nancy has selected her top stories from around the world to kick off this week’s episode starting with the French Open Tennis, plus a great deal for women’s rugby, additions to the Cricket Hundred teams announced, Irish boxer Kellie Harrington winning European gold and her ticket to Tokyo as has US Swimmer Katie Ledecky plus a four year ban for 1500m Olympic hopeful Shelby Houlihan.  And then Chris catches up with another Tokyo bound WiSP Ambassador Angie Delgado who is the only woman on the US Judo team.

Hosts: Chris Stafford & Nancy Gillen

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].

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Tara Kirk’s transition from swimming—she was the U.S. record holder in 50,100 and 200 breaststroke—to a professional career was much different than many others. And it was not without lessons learned that she went from swimming on the world stage to the world stage in pandemics and bioterrorism. And this has never been more relevant than in this unusual year where a pandemic has affected all of our lives.The swimming stage for Tara included growing up in Bremerton, Washington State followed by Stanford for national championships where she broke records. The professional stage began as a biology student at Stanford, capped with a doctors degree from John Hopkins to now serving as a Senior Associate at the John Hopkins Center for Health Security and Assistant Professor in their Dept of Environmental Health and Engineering.

Tara shares what it meant to her when Athens hosted the 2004 Olympics - truly a welcome home from where it all began. After that, she trained throughout the 2008 Olympics before retiring. From being at the top of her game for so long she was suddenly at an entry level position where her peers were five years younger. Tara built upon the qualities that made her a champion swimmer: hard work; penchant for precision; embracing details to achieving more in academics and in her career. She also was advised, and believes, that one has to dig deeper, take criticism and apply and learn or simply keep going. And she concedes that it helps t have talent… although, without training, that is not enough .

Tara shares the simulated exercises she co lead about Covid-19 in early 2019. She acknowledges the role communication plays in terms of a national strategy for mis and disinformation, and emphasizes how social behavior factors are critical to the response. She shares with us her niche, which went from the theoretical to reality in a matter of months. Tara weaves into her life journey the story of relationships, be it at Stanford, her husband’s relationships that connect her professionally or testifying in front of Congress.

She laments the barriers and the equity needed for women sports and women in science, urging us all to fight the good fight as we are not yet there. All the while we recognize what a terrific role model she is for both sport and science.

Host: Chris Voelz
A co-production of WiSP Sports & the Collegiate Women's Sports Awards

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].

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Kirstin is two weeks away from the Coeur D'Alene Ironman so she has started her taper week and is feeling good and ready to go. In this episode she discusses a few things that can impact runners and the run portion of triathlon. Side stitches and bonking. What are they? What causes them and why do they happen? How can we avoid them or if they start, what can we do about it? Both bonking and side stitches can be a common experience for many endurance athletes, so we hope you enjoy the episode and get something helpful to take away with you for your training. Next week we'll be discussing race day preparation and everything Kirstin is doing to prepare for the race.

Host: Dr. Kirstin Lauritzen
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].

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Cindy Daws Mosley, the 1997 Honda Cup winner, was a multi-sport youth athlete as the 5th of six children growing up in Southern California. By the time she was a high school standout she had a decision to make - would she add to the star roster at University of North Carolina to assist in capturing yet one more national championship, or would she choose to lead a new era of pursuing championships at Notre Dame? Her decision resulted in Notre Dame participating  in three national championships. Cindy shares her fondest memories at Notre Dame as well as when she had to overcome foot surgery plus the lessons learned from competition. She describes the two other soccer players who are also Honda Cup Winners, Mia Hamm and Christine Sinclair, and distinguishes her coaches Chris Petrocelli, Anson Dorrance and Clive Charles.  After collegiate soccer and graduation Cindy went to Japan to play professionally. She describes the challenges of playing internationally for a year,  after which she takes the lessons she learned from sport into the business world as she represented Wilson for soccer and volleyball. Now married with four children, Cindy reflects on how she got into her current business, Sport Performance Mentality Coaching.  After 25 years in the midwest we welcome Cindy back to her roots in Southern California.  

Host: Chris Voelz
A co-production with The Collegiate Women's Sports Awards

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].

As you will know, Naya and Lo are both on the USA Rugby Sevens team and they have just returned from Dubai where they were training and playing in an Invitational Tournament. So they sat down together to talk about what it’s like being on tour and to answer some cub questions. We hear about team selection, what players do if they don’t make the squad, what they wear, how long they travel for, what game week involves importantly they share their most private thoughts about roommates. And if you follow these two on social media you will already have the inside scoop on their personal choices.

Hosts: Naya Tapper & Ilona Maher

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].