Women Unscripted

On this month’s Ruck On Saracen’s & England Back Row Poppy Cleall reflects on winning the Six Nations Cup, what it’s like to be a member of the England squad, the discipline before a game and camaraderie with team mate, the pressure of a winning streak and the glory of success. Poppy is joined by Siobhan McCall from the Women’s Rugby Show to discuss the games, what their favorite moments were and they look ahead to the conclusion of the Tyrell Premier League. Beyond that Poppy considers the upcoming tour to the US and what the team faces in San Diego. And we hear about Dudley the Dachshund who even has his own Instagram account already.
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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 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 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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Host: Chris Stafford
Produced by Hollowell Studios
Website: https://hollowellstudios.com/podcasts
Instagram: @twomenunscriptedpodcasts
Email: [email protected]

On this month’s Ruck On Saracen’s & England Back Row Poppy Cleall reflects on winning the Six Nations Cup, what it’s like to be a member of the England squad, the discipline before a game and camaraderie with team mate, the pressure of a winning streak and the glory of success. Poppy is joined by Siobhan McCall from the Women’s Rugby Show to discuss the games, what their favorite moments were and they look ahead to the conclusion of the Tyrell Premier League. Beyond that Poppy considers the upcoming tour to the US and what the team faces in San Diego. And we hear about Dudley the Dachshund who even has his own Instagram account already.

For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE.

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 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

Dublin Roller Derby are currently preparing for their tenth season as a league, with the A team’s sights firmly set on breaking into the top 28 teams in the world and earning their spot at playoffs in 2019. The league has over 80 skating members so competition for a place in the A team roster are hard earned. 
Valentina tells us about the challenges faced by many leagues; raising funds to cover training, traveling on trips overseas to improve rankings (the A team having just returned from Boston) alongside the possibility of further travel abroad and attracting an audience in an already sports saturated market. We chat about how Dublin recruit and retain skaters for the league and learn a little bit more about Valentina’s journey in the sport.
We also discuss Brexit and how it's effecting the current training opportunities for the league as their Public Liability insurance  quotes rise by over 700%, the leagues struggles to keep skaters interested and skilled and how the local Roller Derby community has pulled together to support Dublin's training.
For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE.
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 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 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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Host: Chris Stafford
Produced by Hollowell Studios
Website: https://hollowellstudios.com/podcasts
Instagram: @twomenunscriptedpodcasts
Email: [email protected]

Dublin Roller Derby are currently preparing for their tenth season as a league, with the A team’s sights firmly set on breaking into the top 28 teams in the world and earning their spot at playoffs in 2019. The league has over 80 skating members so competition for a place in the A team roster are hard earned. 

Valentina tells us about the challenges faced by many leagues; raising funds to cover training, traveling on trips overseas to improve rankings (the A team having just returned from Boston) alongside the possibility of further travel abroad and attracting an audience in an already sports saturated market. We chat about how Dublin recruit and retain skaters for the league and learn a little bit more about Valentina’s journey in the sport.

We also discuss Brexit and how it's effecting the current training opportunities for the league as their Public Liability insurance  quotes rise by over 700%, the leagues struggles to keep skaters interested and skilled and how the local Roller Derby community has pulled together to support Dublin's training.

For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE.

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 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

Florida based Cyndi Benzel continues to be a prolific winner on water skis with 55 years of competitive experience under her belt in slalom, tricks, and earlier jumping too. Nowadays she also gives back to the sport by judging and scoring but she still has goals on her to-do list. It all began for her growing up in California when she took part in her first tournament at the age of 11. Two years later she took part in her first national championship and by the time she was 17 she claimed her first national title. She went on to win more National titles Overall and in slalom and trick culminating in the Overall title at the World Games in 198. Cyndi has won the National Title six times as well as the Pan Am team gold and other senior medals. In 2018 she held the number 1 spot in slalom and tricks both on the International Water Ski Federation and USA Water Ski rankings. She hold a number of records in the slalom for her age group and has been inducted into both the AWSEF and Florida State Hall of Fame. She has owned and operated a ski school in the Florida area which is a haven for water skiing and she has the luxury of being able to walk down to the lake from her house to train. Having been a National Champion all her skiing life we ask what motivates her and what’s on her bucket list.
For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE.
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 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 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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Host: Chris Stafford
Produced by Hollowell Studios
Website: https://hollowellstudios.com/podcasts
Instagram: @twomenunscriptedpodcasts
Email: [email protected]

Florida based Cyndi Benzel continues to be a prolific winner on water skis with 55 years of competitive experience under her belt in slalom, tricks, and earlier jumping too. Nowadays she also gives back to the sport by judging and scoring but she still has goals on her to-do list. It all began for her growing up in California when she took part in her first tournament at the age of 11. Two years later she took part in her first national championship and by the time she was 17 she claimed her first national title. She went on to win more National titles Overall and in slalom and trick culminating in the Overall title at the World Games in 198. Cyndi has won the National Title six times as well as the Pan Am team gold and other senior medals. In 2018 she held the number 1 spot in slalom and tricks both on the International Water Ski Federation and USA Water Ski rankings. She hold a number of records in the slalom for her age group and has been inducted into both the AWSEF and Florida State Hall of Fame. She has owned and operated a ski school in the Florida area which is a haven for water skiing and she has the luxury of being able to walk down to the lake from her house to train. Having been a National Champion all her skiing life we ask what motivates her and what’s on her bucket list.

For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE.

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 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

Chris Stafford returns with news and interviews from around the world of equestrian sport by counting down to this year’s Land Rover Kentucky Three Day Event and featuring some of the first timers to the only 5 star competition in North America. The first guest is California based Frankie Thierot Stutes who had a bumper season last year with her 11 year old Oldenburg gelding Chatwin when they culminated by winning the FairHill three star event. I spoke to Frankie after her dressage at the Galway Downs International 4star short event last week which was the third outing of the year for the partnership as they prepare for the big event.
Later in program we will hear from Katherine Bateson-Chandler who, together with the 14 year old Dutch gelding Alcazar, won the FEI four star Grand Prix Freestyle last week in week 12 of the Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida scoring a personal best with her long time partner.
The World Cup Dressage and Jumping Finals takes place this week in Gothenburg, Sweden and if you’ve been following the World Cup season it may seem that if Germany’s Isabell Werth is on form she will always be the one to beat and certainly with five World Cup titles to her name the doyen of dressage will be giving it all she has with Weihegold to make it a hat-trick of World Cup titles.  There are combinations who could deny her the title again including one of the US ladies and Laura Graves will know this is her best chance to add this to her career highlights with Verdades.
Veteran show jumper Beezie Madden is also going for a hat-trick and will be under no illusion of the stiff competition the popular American rider faces if she is to bring it home again with Breitling. She has three other women joining her on the US contingent the 20 year old Eve Jobs and twenty-one year old Kelli Cruciotti (21) will be two of the youngest riders in action along with Georgina Bloomberg. American women have a great record at the World Cup Show Jumping Final. Melanie Smith won the title in 1983, Leslie Burr Lenehan in 1986) and Katharine Burdsall in 1987.
The World Cup Finals mark the end of the indoor season so once the dust has settled in Gothenburg the focus will turn to the spring season of Nations Cups and selection for the Pan American Games which take place in Lima, Peru this summer and the European Championships. Both competitions are the last chance for nations to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE.
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 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 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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Host: Chris Stafford
Produced by Hollowell Studios
Website: https://hollowellstudios.com/podcasts
Instagram: @twomenunscriptedpodcasts
Email: [email protected]

Chris Stafford returns with news and interviews from around the world of equestrian sport by counting down to this year’s Land Rover Kentucky Three Day Event and featuring some of the first timers to the only 5 star competition in North America. The first guest is California based Frankie Thierot Stutes who had a bumper season last year with her 11 year old Oldenburg gelding Chatwin when they culminated by winning the FairHill three star event. I spoke to Frankie after her dressage at the Galway Downs International 4star short event last week which was the third outing of the year for the partnership as they prepare for the big event.

Later in program we will hear from Katherine Bateson-Chandler who, together with the 14 year old Dutch gelding Alcazar, won the FEI four star Grand Prix Freestyle last week in week 12 of the Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida scoring a personal best with her long time partner.

The World Cup Dressage and Jumping Finals takes place this week in Gothenburg, Sweden and if you’ve been following the World Cup season it may seem that if Germany’s Isabell Werth is on form she will always be the one to beat and certainly with five World Cup titles to her name the doyen of dressage will be giving it all she has with Weihegold to make it a hat-trick of World Cup titles.  There are combinations who could deny her the title again including one of the US ladies and Laura Graves will know this is her best chance to add this to her career highlights with Verdades.

Veteran show jumper Beezie Madden is also going for a hat-trick and will be under no illusion of the stiff competition the popular American rider faces if she is to bring it home again with Breitling. She has three other women joining her on the US contingent the 20 year old Eve Jobs and twenty-one year old Kelli Cruciotti (21) will be two of the youngest riders in action along with Georgina Bloomberg. American women have a great record at the World Cup Show Jumping Final. Melanie Smith won the title in 1983, Leslie Burr Lenehan in 1986) and Katharine Burdsall in 1987.

The World Cup Finals mark the end of the indoor season so once the dust has settled in Gothenburg the focus will turn to the spring season of Nations Cups and selection for the Pan American Games which take place in Lima, Peru this summer and the European Championships. Both competitions are the last chance for nations to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE.

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 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].

On this month’s Fair Play Zoe George welcomes back as co-host from the White Ferns all-rounder Sophie Devine who recently won the International T20 Player of the Year at the New Zealand Cricket Awards. And they have another great line up of guests. Football striker Sarah Gregorius discusses the big issues out of the Oceana Division Player Association Conference and talks us through the prep for the upcoming World Cup in France, then Women in Sport Artereoa CEO Rachel Frogett reports back from her visit to the UN, and of course it’s not Fair Play without an update on the toilets at the Basin Reserve and this month it comes with a discussion on accessibility toilets with advocate Jen Hooper and this month.
For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE.
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 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 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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Host: Chris Stafford
Produced by Hollowell Studios
Website: https://hollowellstudios.com/podcasts
Instagram: @twomenunscriptedpodcasts
Email: [email protected]

On this month’s Fair Play Zoe George welcomes back as co-host from the White Ferns all-rounder Sophie Devine who recently won the International T20 Player of the Year at the New Zealand Cricket Awards. And they have another great line up of guests. Football striker Sarah Gregorius discusses the big issues out of the Oceana Division Player Association Conference and talks us through the prep for the upcoming World Cup in France, then Women in Sport Artereoa CEO Rachel Frogett reports back from her visit to the UN, and of course it’s not Fair Play without an update on the toilets at the Basin Reserve and this month it comes with a discussion on accessibility toilets with advocate Jen Hooper and this month.

For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE.

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 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at [email protected].