Women Unscripted

On this week’s episode Ella and Georgina chat with Gen Simmons who is currently the deputy chair of Women Sport Australia. She is also the current General Manager of Gymnastics Victoria, and has formerly worked for Netball Australia, Racing Victoria, and Melbourne Rebels Rugby Union. Gen shares her experience as a woman on the corporate side of sport, and how her career path has led her into sports administration and now into a leadership role as she prepares to take over the reins from Carol Fox as the next WSA President. Gen offers an update on the current work of the WSA and the issues facing women in sport across Australia not least of all in the fight for equality.
Duration: 36 mins
Hosts: Ella Smith & Georgina Mallon.
A co-production with Women Sport Australia
For complete shows notes and more information, links and resources as well as other 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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Host: Chris Stafford
Produced by Hollowell Studios
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Marci Kornegay sits in this week to chat with Abbey Sutherland, the head coach for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Women’s Volleyball and newly appointed Senior Woman Administrator. Abbey explains how she has integrated WeCOACH programming and networking into the success of her volleyball program and how she has put action to buzz-worthy leadership terminology like growth mindset and modeling to intercept the challenges that are currently facing coaching in the wake of a pandemic. This episode will get you thinking and inspire you to transcend beyond just the x’s and o’s.
Duration: 42 mins
Guest Host: Marci Kornegay
For complete shows notes and more information, links and resources as well as other 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 our weekly news show Chris Stafford is joined by Nancy Gillen from Inside the Games who has the top stories from around the world of women’s sport. This week’s guest is Cricket England’s Beth Barrett Wild with an update on the women’s game and new Hundred Series. We hear how the women’s contracts have been protected for next year and what we can look forward to when England play the West Indies in the upcoming T20 series taking place behind closed doors at the County Ground in Derby, England but with extensive TV coverage.
Stories we cover this week:
The Hundred Contracts
British/NZ Gymnastics (and Stuff launch women in sport section)
Osaka wins US Open
South African Government back Semenya
Cathy Freeman Sydney 2000 anniversary
FIFA Women's football programs
Gabeira big wave
FASANOC women in sport workshop and Nordic combined training camp
Online training camp for women's Nordic combined declared a success
Hosts: Chris Stafford & Nancy Gillen
Podcast length: 52 mins
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].

WOW. That is what we have to say about this week’s episode. Elana Meyers Taylor embodies Mum’s the Word and did not hesitate to get into the tough conversations about balancing motherhood and being a US team athlete. In a sport like bobsled where a lot of the training and competing focusses on explosive power, we heard about how Elana, under the coaching of her husband Nicholas Taylor (also a USA bobsled athlete) adapted her training to monitoring her heart rate and keeping her power lifts capped below maximum. Morning sickness sometimes reared its ugly head during training runs so they adapted the program to fit with what Elana was capable of that day.
This powerhouse of an athlete was instrumental with the recent rule changes for female USA Olympic athletes maternity stipend payments and insurance coverage through pregnancy and one year post pregnancy. This is a momentous step in the right direction in the fight for equality between male and female elite athletes. 
Ever the competitor, Elana and Nic never went into birth expecting complications and planned for a totally natural birth to match their natural lifestyle of organic food, gluten and dairy free diet, limited medications...a self confessed “crunchy”. After 48 hrs of labor and hours in the 2nd stage (the pushing stage) the couple and medical team made a game time decision to proceed with an emergency C-section. 
Having experienced her baby spending time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Elana expressed how these was some of the hardest moments of her life and the impact it’s had on her. Elana also explained the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on her competition schedule which Sarah could relate to in sailing. 
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Hosts: Sarah Newberry Moore & Pam Relph Jones
Podcast length: 45 mins
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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 plays and downloads. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

On this episode, Functional Medicine Practitioner, Dr Kirstin Lauritzen, covers a specific nutrient Vitamin B9. You may have seen it named as folate, folic acid and other forms like methyl-tetrahydrofolate. In this episode we talk about some of the most common symptoms or conditions associated with Vitamin B9 like depression, anxiety and fatigue… and to also give a nod to the new Mums the Word podcast we also discuss how necessary Vitamin B9 is for pregnancy, healthy infants, and in cases like postpartum depression, and miscarriages. Dr K also includes ways you can take Vitamin B9 in food and can start adding these into your diet right away.
Host: Dr. Kirstin Lauritzen
Podcast length: 17 mins
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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Host: Chris Stafford
Produced by Hollowell Studios
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In this episode of Tucker Center Talks we have two great segments. In the first segment, Nicole talks Dr. Victoria Jackson, Clinical Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University (ASU), affiliated faculty with the Global Sport Institute at ASU and former NCAA 10,000m national championship runner about the intersection of history, politics, gender and race. In the second segment Nicole talks with fellow #disruptHERS, Dr. Lough, Lebel and Pegoraro, on US pro teams striking in protest of racial injustice, and how female athletes have a leading disruptive role in this movement and moment.
Host: Dr. Nicole LaVoi
A co-production with 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].
 

On our weekly news show Chris Stafford is joined by Nancy Gillen from Inside the Games. We have the top stories from around the world of women’s sport. This week’s guest is Team USA Olympic sailor Sarah Newberry Moore who is also co-host of our new podcast Mum’s the Word, which covers everything from periods to pregnancy and post-partum to parenting for sportswomen. Sarah explains how she is juggling Olympic training from coast to coast and how she is staying fit off the water. 
News stories we cover this week:
Semenya loses Swiss Supreme Court appeal over World Athletics testosterone rules
Osaka books place in US Open semi-finals with dominant win over Rogers
Organisers confirm French Open plans but defending champion Barty withdraws
Tokyo 2020 should be held "at any cost" says Olympic Minister
England and Brazil confirm equal pay for men’s and women’s football teams
Tobin Heath and Christen Press: Manchester United set to sign United States duo
Fishlock claims Britain coach at Tokyo 2020 should not be the manager of a home nations team
Katherine Grainger on bullying accusations
 
Hosts: Chris Stafford & Nancy Gillen
Podcast length: 52 mins
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 the first episode of this new show from The Collegiate Women’s Sports Awards (CWSA) host Chris Voelz, Executive Director talks to Jill Sterkel who recounts her career as a swimmer. Starting in her youth and extending through three Olympic Games spanning twelve years, Jill talks about the challenge of being a captain of a team and what it was like to go against the East German swimmers in 1976 Olympics as a 15 year old with a “miracle  in the water.” She shares the advice she would give her 15 year old self and brings us to the present day, what it’s like to transition to life without swimming and the lessons you take with you in your personal life and career. Jill explains why recognition such as the Honda Cup are important, especially to girls  and women. We also hear about what she feels is important in her life now and how she chooses to spend her retirement years.
Host: Chris Voelz, CWSA Executive Director
Podcast length: 32 mins.
A co-production with the CWSA.
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].

Belle Brockhoff, Australia’s best female snowboard cross athlete, is a two-time Olympian and twelve-time World Cup medalist which includes four gold medals.  In 2020, she won the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Snow Australia Awards for her amazing comeback over the 2019-2020 season following a long ACL recovery.  An advocate for mental health, Belle is a Community Custodian for Lifeline Australia. In this episode, we discuss how it feels to make history numerous times, her protest of Russia's anti-LGBTQ laws at her first Olympics in Sochi, her decision to speak openly about depression, and why she thinks Australia has some of the best snowboarders in the world.
Podcast length: 31 mins
Hosts: Ella Smith & Georgina Mallon
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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Host: Chris Stafford
Produced by Hollowell Studios
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Megan Kahn chats with Katie Adams, the director of recruiting operations for University of Nebraska Women’s Basketball. Having served as a high school coach, DI assistant and now as a critical member of the Huskers support staff, her vast experiences also include playing in the national championship game for legendary Coach C. Vivian Stringer. Katie’s lifelong passion for learning and teaching are evident in this candid episode as she shares insight on her growth mindset, the power of strong women role models, and building authentic relationships.
Host: Megan Kahn
Podcast length: 35 mins
A co-production with 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].