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Olga Harvey, Chief Strategy and Impact Officer at the Women's Sports Foundation on how WSF is handling a new reality of social distancing and how they are pivoting plans to stay focused on their mission of enabling all girls and women to reach their potential in sports and life. Olga is a native of Moscow, Russia. She received a Business degree from Cornell University while playing D1 tennis. Olga...

Physical therapist, coach, strength trainer Tracy Fober talks body weight training and movement based fitness. Training at home doesn’t mean limiting athletic development. Tracy’s methods can be used to great effect even once we all can train wherever we want again. Tracy owns Iron Maven Performance Health, in Park City, Utah. She worked with US Ski & Snowboard leading up to 2018 Winter Olympic Ga...

Katie Nageotte, one of the top American pole vaulters, currently ranked 4th in the world, so also one of the best in the world explains how she’s training during Covid-19 and what her plans are going forward now that Olympics are postponed. In 2017 she started training with coach Brad Walker and has been making incredible gains for the past several years. Some recent results include a Gold medal a...

Sarah Kelleher is a high performance coach and strategic consultant supporting individuals, teams, and organizations to flourish. She is Associate Consultant Team Coach at Leading Edge, a performance coaching company. Sarah has been involved in high performance coaching at the international level for over eight years currently in her sixth cycle as Lead Coach, England Hockey Under 18 Girls with ex...

Lucinda Brand professional Dutch road and cyclocross cyclist on coronavirus in March 2020, training with uncertainly, Olympics, and the past cyclocross season. She has been a profressional rider for eleven years. On the road she’s won four Dutch National Championships, GP de Plouay-Bretagne, three stages in the Giro d’Italia Femminile, and the World Championships team time trial. During this past...

Patricia Destine, now a middle school coach at Row New York started in Row New York as a high schooler, still rows, kickboxes, and is working towards a career as Youth Development Personal Sports Specialist. She gives us a terrific insider’s view into young athletes because she’s been working with these kids for years and because at 22 she’s close to their age. We talk about middle school girls le...

Bryce Wettstein is a professional skateboarder and 2019 USA National Champion for Women's Park format. This summer will be the first time skateboarding is in the Olympics and Bryce is on Team USA Skateboarding with a shot at skating Park in Tokyo. Bryce travels a lot to compete, keeps up with school, surfs, plays volleyball, and writes songs on her ukulele. She’s been skating since she was very yo...

Sabre fencer Dagmara Wozniak is a two time Olympian – London in 2012 and Rio in 2016, where she won a team bronze medal. After recent ankle surgery she is now actively training and competing to make the Tokyo2020 Olympic team. Dagmara is 2018 Pan Am Championship gold medalist and 2015 Pan Am Games Gold Medalist. She also speaks at schools about body positivity and determination. She inspires with...

Jacqie McWilliams Commissioner of the CIAA spent nine years at the NCAA, managing NCAA championships. She was a student-athlete at Hampton University where she was a champion basketball and volleyball player. Jacqie earned a BA in Psychology from Hampton University and a Masters degree in Sports Management and Administration from Temple University. She currently serves on the board for Women Leade...

Christina Vassallo, curator and arts administrator, just named Executive Director of Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Christina is also an avid cyclist with Type 1 diabetes. For the past six years she’s been the ED of Spaces Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio. This Fast Track consists of excerpts about her diabetes, bike commuting, and bike touring. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with...

Katie Visco ran across Australia. 2200 miles, more than three months, a marathon plus each day. Her husband Henley Phillips pedaled a bicycle loaded up with 350 pounds of gear, food, and water making it the first ever bicycle-supported transcontinental run across any country. In 2009, Katie became the 2nd youngest and 13th woman to run across America. While make that trip from Boston to San Diego,...

Laura Moretti Reece, Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics currently part of the Female Athlete Program and Sports Medicine/ Orthopedics Team at Boston Children's Hospital specializes in sports performance-based nutrition, treating low energy availability, disordered eating, and eating disorders in athletes. She works with Olympic and professional athletes, colleges and universities, profession...

Competitive Strongman and Strength Coach Hannah Jennings has been active in the weight room since high school, competes in both Powerlifting and Strongman events and holds multiple state and a world records. She is also a coach helping women get stronger and building their self belief so they can also start living their strongest life. We talk being the strongest in the room, competition jitters,...

Lilah Thompson, high school sophomore volley standout discovered volleyball only about a year ago. She has absolutely found her sport and shines at it! She is the only sophomore on her school’s Varsity volleyball team and plays for Avidity Volleyball Club on the top-level team for her age group. She has been recognized with the Most Improved Award for the 2018 season, named a New England Conferenc...

Hannah Stodel, 3 time World Champion, 4 times Paralympian. Hannah was born without a lower right arm. At 15 she started competing with her eyes on the Paralympics and now she is preparing for the Vendee Globe, and incredible, solo around the world race. Hannah talks about love of sailing, confidence, her studied preparations for the Vendee, and unicorn duct tape and chocolate. Hear Her Sports is l...

Jessica Berman, Deputy Commissioner and Executive Vice President of Business Affairs at the National Lacrosse League, first woman to hold the title of Deputy Commissioner at any professional sports league in North America and now highest-ranking woman in men’s professional sports leagues. She shares great stuff on emerging sports leagues, big career moves, creative time while running, collecting p...

Lia Neal, Olympic swimmer, Stanford grad, now pro competing in International Swimming League. Lia won bronze and silver medals in the 4x100 freestyle relays at the 2012 & 2016 Olympic Games, was first woman of Black descent to swim an Olympic final for the US and won a gold medal at the Junior World Championships. She shares stories of training, swimming as kid in Brooklyn, giving back, what’s it...

Cheryl Cooky, associate professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Purdue University, expert in gendered media representations of sport talks in depth about low quantity and quality of sports media coverage of women. She covers Olympics, World Cup Soccer, Caster Semenya, and what sports tells us about culture. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female ath...

Lisa Keller cancer survivor, coach, and triathlete owns Multisport Training of Alaska, coaching for triathletes, is General Manager of Running Free Alaska, coaches at Hiland prison in Anchorage. She’s a founding board member of the Alaska Run for Women, winner of the Gold Nugget Triathlon and the Eagle River Triathlon and is a two-time Alaska Triathlete of the Year and has achieved All-American st...

Danielle Williams, Skydiver, Founder and Senior Editor of the blogging platform Melanin Base Camp Founder of Diversify Outdoors, and Co-Founder of Team Blackstar Skydivers. She’s currently producing a short film about black Canadian climbing prodigy Sabrina Chapman. We talk mothers, diversity, story telling, and community. Hear Her Sports is long-form interviews with female athletes & women in spo...

Julie Pedalino bike builder with passion for ornament fancy lugs steel bikes talks importance of bike fit. Hear how small changes make a bike difference for comfort and riding fun. Hear Her Sports Fast Track are short topical conversations with female athletes & women in sports breaking boundaries, speaking up and living with power & confidence.

76 year old triathlete Sibyl Jacobson 2-time ITU Triathlon World Champion, 2-time IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion shares her stories about competing as an older athlete, training, Title IX, sports she did as a kid, starting her athletic career as a 61 year old, and aging. She seeks things that frighten and challenge her, wants to continue competing into her 80s, and has some wise words for us. Hear He...

Dawn Scott, USA Soccer’s Women’s National Team High Performance Coach covers her work incorporating science of menstrual cycles with training, what her days are like training with the team, extreme importance of strength training, the upcoming packed schedule for the USA soccer players, and how you can take advantage of everything she’s learned in nine years as coach for USWNT. Hear Her Sports is...

Motocross Racer and filmmaker Eline Mets is the first woman in Canada to jump her dirt bike onto an airbag, a motocross champion, and is the creator of Diaries of Badass Chicks. She won grant money from the Telus Storyhive Web Series and made the TV show’s pilot. Eline is bringing women in motorcross to mainstream. We get into being taken seriously, getting the proper gear and equipment for high l...

Bobsledder, Elana Meyers Taylor 4 time World Champion, 3 time Olympic medalist, and 2015 World Cup Champion, first woman to compete on US National Team with men as a 4-man bobsled pilot, and president of the Women’s Sports Foundation joins podcast this week. We talk about why competing in the 4-man bobsled is so important, big long term goals!, insiders view of WSF, concussions, Taekwondo, bobsled...