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Born in Burlington, Ontario, Sarah started sailing at the age of seven on the island of Barbados. Starting in the Optimist, she competed in North American and World Championships before the age of 15. After outgrowing the boat, Sarah returned to Canada and transitioned into the Laser Radial class. From there she quickly became one of the top youth sailors in Canada. In 2010, an opportunity was pre...

Dr. Angie Ridgel is Professor of Exercise Science and Exercise Physiology in the School of Health Sciences and the Associate Director of the Brain Health Research Institute at Kent State University. She has an active research program focused on how aging and neurological disorders affect movement in humans, and how exercise can be used to promote neurorehabilitation and brain health. Dr. Ridgel's...

Dr. Kate Ackerman is the Founder and Director of the Wu Tsai Female Athlete Program Boston Children’s Hospital and Biennial International Female Athlete Conference and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She earned her BA from Cornell University, her MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed her residency in...

Christine Yu is an award-winning journalist whose work focuses on the intersection of sports science and women athletes. Her writing has appeared in  Outside ,  The Washington Post ,  Runner’s World , and other publications. She’s a lifelong athlete and yoga teacher who loves running, surfing, and skiing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Join Hear Her Sports Patreon https://www.patreon.com/hearher...

Samantha Smith is a multi-sport athlete. She does freestyle, alpine, and nordic skiing, runs cross country, plays soccer, hikes, and mountain bikes. She lives seven months of the year in Boise, Idaho and five months in Sun Valley, splitting time between Boise High School and Community School. This set up allows her to pursue her two main sports -- soccer and skiing. And what makes Sammy unique is...

Sports nutritionist Nancy Clark is Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics. She counsels both competitive athletes and casual exercisers in her successful private practice in the Boston-area. Her extensive experience has helped thousands of active clients win with good nutrition. Her nutrition advice and photo have graced the back of the Wheaties’ box! She has been Team Nutritionist for the Bosto...

Amanda Sobhy is currently the #1 ranked #1 US player (which is the highest ranked American player ever.) and she’s #5 in the world. She has a career-high world ranking of #3. She earned five US Women's National Champion titles and three Gold medals at the 2015 & 2019 Pan American Games, which makes her the first player ever to win three Gold medals (Individual, Doubles, and Team) in the Pan-Americ...

Since she was 18 years old, Kelsey Phendler has been working on water and in boats of all kinds. She’s been a professional Grand Canyon Boatman and River Guide for ten years, where she rows boats loaded with gear and passengers along 226-mile trips in every weather condition imaginable from spring through fall. Kelsey also currently pilots motorboats for the United States Geological Survey fish st...

In this special collaboration with Women's Running Stories, we talk to Jae Gruenke, Feldenkrais practitioner, running form expert, and founder of The Balance Runner.   Jae Gruenke is known as “the wise woman of running” and has helped runners from beginner to Olympian relieve pain and improve their performance; she specializes in helping runners whose problems have persisted despite medical treatm...

Kristen Bourne has coached cross country skiing at the collegiate and professional level for the past three years. She was the assistant coach at The College of Saint Scholastica for two years where she was a 2021 Women’s Sports Foundation Tara VanDerveer Fellow. During the summer, she was an assistant coach with the Craftsbury Green Racing Project professional team in Vermont. Prior to coaching,...

Erika Hood was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and has over fifteen years of experience in community organizing and advocacy. She believes that authentic engagement matters most when working with the community. In 2009 Erika, her sister Ebony and their mother Marcia founded Syatt, formerly known as See You at the Top. Syatt's MISSION is to support its community through culturally relevant progr...

Jenny Nguyen picked up a basketball right around the same time she put down her milk bottle. From an early age, people called her a tomboy. Instead of playing with dolls and wearing dresses, she climbed trees and rode bikes. But most of all, she loved to play basketball. That love shaped her whole identity and helped her to fit in all the way through high school. When she was 19 years old in her f...

Anouk Patty has a long and distinguished career at several blue-chip corporations. She was Head of Strategic Partnerships at HP, Inc. focused on 3D scanning and 3D printing partnerships, particularly in the footwear and sports categories. Prior to that, she led HP’s partnerships in the gaming space. Anouk spent time at Intuit where she was the GM of Quicken and Quickbooks for the Mac business. Her...

Sasha DiGiulian began climbing in 1998 at six years old. She won the World Championships for Female Overall, a Silver in the Bouldering World Championships, as well as Bronze in the Duel. Sasha was also the undefeated pan-American Champion for over a decade. Outdoors, Sasha is the first North American woman to climb the grade nine-a, five-fourteen-d. Additionally, she has on-sighted multiple eight...

Hayley has been a full-time, professional cyclist since completing her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at The University of Cambridge in 2016. She is 2x Elite British TT champion, 17x Cycling Time Trials National Champion and holds 3 British TT records (at 10, 25 and 50 miles). She was the first woman to break the 50-minute barrier for a 25-mile time trial. Hayley won bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Ga...

Joanne Lannin wrote for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram in Portland, Maine for twenty-two years …where she was the first female sports reporter. Who Let Them In? Pathbreaking Women in Sports Journalism is Joanne’s fourth book about women and sports. Joanne is a retired English and journalism teacher and she still plays basketball in an over-50 league. She lives in the Portland, Mai...

Savilia Blunk was raised in rural Northern California. As the youngest of three, she spent her childhood chasing two older brothers around on rusty, hand-me-down bikes. Her love of the outdoors and the adrenaline from physical activity began with her parents providing an early introduction to pure adventure... Of course, strong internal motivation to keep up with her brothers also helped! Savilia...

Olympian Molly Seidel is a professional runner. She is well known for her incredible performance in the Tokyo Olympics heat to win bronze in the marathon. She was 2nd in the Olympic trials, which was her first-ever marathon. In 2021, Molly ran the fastest time ever by an American woman at the New York City Marathon in 2:24:42, shattering the previous course record by more than a minute. None of th...

Kathy Murray is a certified personal trainer with over thirty years of experience in the fitness industry. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University where she was a member of the 1983 National Cheerleading Championship Team. She won the United States Aerobic Championship in 1986 and spent the year traveling the world as a Fitness Ambassador and worked as a free-lance educator to teach fitness...

Kelcey Ervick was a goalkeeper for nationally ranked soccer teams as a girl and a D1 player in college. These days, she is an author, artist, mother, and professor of creative writing at Indiana University in South Bend. Her latest book is the graphic memoir, The Keeper. Kelcey has written three award-winning books of fiction and nonfiction----THE BITTER LIFE OF BOŽENA NĚMCOVÁ, LILIANE'S BALCONY,...

Cherie Louise Turner is the host and producer of Women's Running Stories, where she shares the running stories of women from around the world and at every level of the sport. Cherie is a lifelong athlete whose first serious competitive love was racing bicycles on the road and track. In the early 90s she earned her way on to a professional domestic team. Cherie’s post cycling life has primarily foc...

Madam Athlete is a career podcast for women working in sports and athletics, created by sports medicine physician, Dr. Giselle Aerni. On the podcast, she interviews women working in sports about their career journeys and takes deep dive into career development topics like building your confidence and graceful self-promotion. Yetsa A. Tuakli-Wosornu, M.D., M.P.H. is a sports and wellness expert and...

Keep the Flame Alive is the podcast for fans of the Olympics and Paralympics. Hosted by Jill Jaracz and Alison Brown, this weekly show has everything fans want to know about the Olympic and Paralympic Movements: How sports work, history, host city information, and much more! During the Games, our daily recaps cover all of the action. Nordic Combined is the only sport on the current Olympic program...

Kim McKenny is the president and co-founder of Nordic Ski Lab, an online learning platform that uses videos to teach the ski techniques used by competitive cross-country skiers. Kim is a certified ski coach who uses her own experiences learning how to ski as an adult combined with expertise and demonstrations from world-class athletes to deliver affordable and easy-to-understand ski technique. Oli...

Whitney Washington is a 31-year-old storyteller and worldwide bike adventurer. In 2021 she rode across the United States. This month she begins a new trip from Alaska to Argentina. Whitney grew up in a military family and moved around a lot. She discovered adventure with her mother on car trips to explore their new surroundings. She also enjoyed watching action sport films and stories about explor...