On the first episode of a new season of The Lovely Biertrix, we chat with Joanna—AKA "Milv"—from Hulls Angel's Roller Derby about the leagues upcoming  tournament 'Humberstruck' and the inspirations behind deciding to host their own two day, 2-track tournament. "Milv" shares her personal journey of tournament planning including tips to help your league plan a tournament in 2020 and the importance of team work to keep the stress levels at bay.
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In this episode Abby Ehler focuses on fitness specifically for sailing and chatting to three different guests who are related to sailing and or fitness in varying forms.  Her first guest is Joy Fitzgerald,  a competitive sailor having raced competitively inshore and offshore from a young age. She has competed in three Maxi Transatlantic races and iconic offshore races such as the Fastnet Race and Caribbean 600. Joy works as a Personal Trainer at Pinnacle Performance gym in Hamble, UK using her practical knowledge of the sport in order to optimize training for her sailing specific clients.
 
Kelly Lees originates from Durban, South Africa and works shore side in the Sailing industry, she is also a competitive power and olympic lifter.  Kelly talks about her journey into the fitness world and discusses various ways of getting started and what to look out for.
 
And finally Abby catches up with an old friend Haley Nixon who has through her career been a professional athlete, competing in the 2017 Ocean Racing World Champion, 2016 Worlds Surfski Series Champion; athlete of the 2012 South African Olympic Rowing Squad; and a competitive participant in mountain bike racing, trail running, triathlons and ocean swimming. Hayley has worked in both biokinetics and sports science, as a practitioner at the Kings Medical College in Durban, South Africa, and shares her knowledge of injury prevention in upper body dominant sports.
 

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Why does your nose run when you exercise? It’s so annoying to always be searching for a tissue the moment you start your activity. This is a common complaint and affects many people. Dr Juliet tells us the condition is called rhinitis, she explains the causes and different types of rhinitis and advises us all to look for our triggers. Whether it’s cold air or chlorine in pool water, polluted air or just the exercise itself. Knowing your triggers will help you to reduce the problem. Listen in for tips and advice on how to ease this condition and hear why visiting your pharmacist is a good idea.
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In this first episode of Tucker Center Talks, Nicole LaVoi, Director of The Tucker Center for Research of Girls and Women in Sport introduces the work of the Tucker Center, in terms of who we are and what we do in our research, outreach and educational programming. Nicole outlines some of the topics we have lined up for you in the coming months.  We’d also like to hear from you! What topics about research on girls and women in sport would you like for us to cover? What issues, research, ideas or topics would like the Tucker Team to discuss on this podcast. We are open to your suggestions. As the leading research center for girls and women in sport in the world, we want to leverage our knowledge, data and network of scholars and practitioners to inform a wider audience about women and girls in sport. 
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Chris Stafford & Nancy Gillen have the week's top stories in women's sport from around the world.

AIBA World Boxing Championships with Nancy Gillen in Ulan Ude, Eastern Siberia
World Athletics Championships
Salazar athletes in Doha told to stay away from US coach after four-year doping ban
USA Breaks Mixed 4x400m Record
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 100m champion at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, wins gold
Olympic pole vault champion proposed for IOC Athletes Commission election
The rise in women playing netball after World Cup
Concacaf women’s Olympic qualifiers moved to Puerto Rico from Haiti
Confirmation that Kallie Humphries is going to US
US Ski racer Laurenne Ross to sit out of the 2019-20 competition season
Facebook has become the International Cricket Council's (ICC) exclusive digital content rights partner for the Indian subcontinent. 
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On this week’s episode Jenny and Chris discuss the impact of social media on athletes and performance. As society is surrounded by social media and everyone has a platform for their opinion, teaching athletes to manage this new and powerful distractor is a big job for sport psychologists. Competitive anxiety is enough to manage without having to deal with some anonymous troll calling you fat or useless. People have become very mean behind their social media platforms. There is no accountability and, usually, no identity. What this does to the mind of the athlete can be distracting and damaging.
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Kathryn Currey is an amateur show jumper who recently achieved a career highlight when she won the 1.10-meter amateur jumper class at the Hampton Classic Horse Show beating a field of 70. Her partner was a seven year old chestnut mare that she bought off the track for the pricey sum of $400 and who not only can jump but also he has the 1992 Kentucky Derby winner, Lil E. Tee in her breeding so she will have a third career as a brood mare when she retires from the jumper ring. It’s a fairly tale story for the Tennessee mother of two who believes in establishing thorough ground work to bring out a horse’s true potential taking all the time they need.  Chris Stafford spoke to Kathryn who has been enjoying the attention that her mare has received with the recent success.
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Canadian Hurdler turned Steeplechaser Dr. Katherine Cochrane-Brink at 52 is continuing her sporting life in Masters Track & Field. Kate rode horses as a child before she turned to gymnastics and later rowing at university. At the 1990 OWIAA rowing champs she won the lightweight 4s and 8s for the University of Toronto.  Other wins include the North American Henley in 1989, 1990, 1991 in lightweight 8s and she rowed heavyweight for the Oxford University Blue Boat in England in 1992 and1993 and also won the Head of the River on the Thames in 1992. Kate won a Rhodes Scholarship in 1991 the year she took part in the Pan Ams selection camp.  After Oxford she went into medicine at University of Toronto and took part in rowing, mountain biking, Nordic skiing and later more road biking. Triathlon was her first Masters sport experience and she competed in the 2002 and 2005 World Age Group Champs.  Her Masters track and field career started in 2010 and in 2019 she claimed the Canadian W50 record in 2000 m steeplechase. Nowadays Kate spends her winters competing in Nordic ski and snowshoe races. In 2019 I won the 10 k National Masters Snowshoe racing title and was 4th overall amongst the open women.
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On Episode 25 Megan Kahn chats with Utah Head Volleyball Coach Beth Launiere. In her 30th season, and with over 500 wins to her name, 15 NCAA tournament appearances, and recognized as the AVCA West Region Coach of the Year three times, she has built Utah into a perennial top 25 team. Beth’s passion and experience make for an insightful episode on both the art and science of coaching. 
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This month we discuss diversity or lack of it and sport. General Manager of women's elite program at the National Rugby League Tiffany Slater discusses the importance of the women's warriors playing on New Zealand soil, and Liz Dawson gives us a glimpse into being on the board for the women's ICC Cricket World Cup 2021. And of course it's not fair play without an update from the toilets at the Basin Reserve. This month's co-host has more than 20 years of experience working as a consultant across both arts and sports. She's managed big projects that affect sport from helping Sport New Zealand with a disability strategy to New Zealand rugby. She's currently the chair of Shift, an organization that seeks to improve the wellbeing of young women in New Zealand through accessibility to sport and recreation shifters partnering with Women in Sport Aotearoa for the women and girls and sport summit coming to Wellington in October covering the big issues related to us from diversity in sport to leadership. Zoe's co-host is Robin Coburn.
This podcast is a co-production of Radio New Zealand, Locker Room and WiSP Sports.
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