Pitch Session

The 2025 Pitchies are here! Andrew and Kirstin are joined by an all-star cast to announce the winners of our 2025 year-end awards. Rachel from The Maxi Pod joins the show to help hand out the hardware. This year’s Pitchies welcomed Pitchie Winners Elizabeth Edmonston of Cal and Iñako Puzo onto the show. Other Pitchie winners to make special appearances include Syracuse D Bo van Kempen , Northweste...

Northwestern is the national champion again, and Andrew and Kirstin are back to wrap up the season and the NCAA Tournament in style. They’re joined first by three-time national champion Northwestern assistant coaches Georgia Holland and Will Byrne (7:10) to break down this year’s Wildcats, their run to a second straight title, and to give Georgia the floor for what can only be described as the obs...

Andrew and Kirstin are on location in Durham, NC for the 2025 Final Four and report back on the day's two games live from Pitch Session's Research Triangle Headquarters. They look back at the less-than-enthralling opener between Harvard and Princeton in which the Tigers emerged with a 2-0 win, and then breakdown the thriller in the nightcap that saw Northwestern come back from a two goal deficit t...

It's Final Four time and Andrew and Kirstin are joined by the head coaches of all four teams competing in this weekend's Final Four. First, they look back on the opening weekend of the NCAA Tournament, provide an update on the Bracket Challenge Spectacular presented by Wrappit Wrappit , and lament the amount of video reviews that seemed to dominate the first and second rounds of the tournament. Th...

Andrew and Kirstin are joined by two-time All-American, two-time Patriot League Offensive Player of the Year and two-time Patriot League tournament MVP Christine Fingerhuth to look back at last weekend's conference tournaments and breakdown the NCAA Tournament bracket. They look at all 10 conferences with AQs to the field of 18 and the 11th -- the inaugural championship of the MPSF. A D3 corner in...

The postseason has arrived and Andrew and Kirstin are ready to take a look at each of the 10 conference tournaments taking place this week along with the MPSF Championship Game that we've been waiting all year for. Kirstin picks a winner for each conference and makes an early guess at what eight teams will earn at-large selections to the NCAA Tournament when the field is announced this Sunday nigh...

Andrew and Kirstin are joined by US Women's National Team athlete and Northwestern Wildcat Ashley Sessa to chat about her big weekend last week that helped propel the Wildcats to the Big Ten Regular Season title.   They also preview where each conference stands going into the final weekend of the regular season, look at Kirstin's DIII Corner, her Games to Watch (tm), and have a vital update for ou...

Andrew and Kirstin do double duty this week, welcoming the Pitch Session National Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week to the pod. First, Kirstin speaks with Indiana Sophomore Goalkeeper Sadie Canelli , and then they're both joined by UNC Junior Forward Charly Bruder .  With just two weeks remaining in the regular season, they break down both polls, Kirstin presents her DIII Short Corner an...

It's a super packed Pitch Session as Andrew and Kirstin welcome UC Davis Head Coach Austin Pile to the show. They explore all things MPSF including how the powerhouse conference came to be, plans for future members, and a preview of the inaugural championship game taking place next month. They also look at the NFHCA Coaches Poll and its inner-workings, while also chatting about UC Davis' 2025 seas...

The 2025 season has reached the second half and Andrew and Kirstin are joined by USA Women's National Team members, podcast hosts, and roommates, Jenny Rizzo and Jillian Wolgemuth . The pair are the hosts of their podcast, No Advice Possible , and come on this pod to discuss what's happening with the national team as it begins to ramp up for next summer's World Cup in Belgium and the Netherlands. ...

Andrew and Kirstin look back at the first loss for the season for North Carolina and other upsets during a topsy-turvy weekend across the country. They breakdown both polls , including Northwestern being #1 in both, and look at inconsistency in how some voted in the coaches poll .    Kirstin gives her DIII Corner, put teams on the chute and the ladder, provides a wrap up to Fat Bear Week , and las...

Andrew and Kirstin roll into another week discussing who's up and who's down in Chutes and Ladders, breaking down the first round of voting in Fat Bear Week , and discuss the chances of a bear roaming around in suburban Atlanta. Then they're joined by JMU Dukes head coach Christie Morgan . The three discuss Christie's lengthy run as head coach in Harrisonburg, which dates back to 1991, why she too...

Andrew and Kirstin take a look back at the third full weekend of play before breaking down both the NFHCA Coaches Poll and the Pitch Session People's Poll . They then welcome head coach of the undefeated, 5th ranked (in both polls) Harvard Crimson, Tjerk van Herwaarden .  In chatting with Tjerk, we learn how he came to give up a banking career in the Netherlands to coach collegiate field hockey in...

Andrew and Kirstin look back at the second weekend of the season, the return of the Coaches Poll and another edition of the Pitch Session People's Poll. They're then joined by Syracuse Director of Operations and former 3-time Patriot League Goalkeeper of the Year and 2-time Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year Bryn Underwood . They discuss life as a Director of Operations Bryn's budding broa...

Andrew and Kirstin kick things off by recapping the opening weekend of play across the country (Ivy League, still fashionably late) and unveiling Week Two of the Pitch Session People’s Poll. Then they welcome Louisville head coach Justine Sowry to the pod to discuss so many things. The trio revisit Kirstin’s days as an assistant on Justine’s staff, reflect on how Justine has grown in nearly two de...

Andrew and Kirstin discuss the NFHCA preseason poll and the results of the inaugural Pitch Session People's Poll, taking time to compare and contrast the results from both. Then they're joined by Ohio State graduate student Makenna Webster , a two-sport star for the Buckeyes. The 3rd round pick of the New York Sirens in the PWHL Draft discusses the challenges of playing field and ice hockey at suc...

Andrew and Kirstin look ahead to the start of the season as Kirstin makes her pick for each DI conference, and who she sees in the final four.

Andrew and Kirstin move one week closer to the start of the season and are joined by first-year head coach Kristi Gannon Fisher of the Michigan Wolverines.  They discuss her transition from player and longtime assistant at Michigan to becoming the head coach of the program, and how preseason is going as her team prepares another run through the always rigorous Big Ten. Remember if you want to vote...

Andrew and Kirstin begin Season Three of Pitch Session as preseason gets underway this week. Then they're joined by Laura Gebhart, first-year head coach of the Fairfield Stags. Laura shares how she's approaching her first preseason at the helm, what it's like collaborating with Lucas the Stag, and her many hats within the NFHCA -- including her push to reform the often-debated coaches poll. We als...

Andrew and Kirstin are back with an offseason edition of Pitch Session where they discuss what's been going on since December both on and off the field. They discuss Saint Francis' move to DIII and what it means for both field hockey and college sports in general. They're then joined by Tara Zollinger , three-time national champion as a head coach (and many more as a player and assistant) and bran...

The Pitchies are finally here as Andrew and Kirstin are joined by Rachel from The Maxi Pod to give out their end-of-season awards to several deserving winners.   During The Pitchies, they also discuss important issues in the world of pop culture, current events in the sports world, and welcome Pitchie winners Emma Winther and Gorham, Maine 's greatest export Hannah Price to the show.

Andrew and Kirstin put a bow on the 2024 season and are joined by two members of Northwestern's national championship team: Senior midfielder  Maddie Zimmer   and graduate student goalkeeper Annabel Skubisz . Maddie and Annabel both talk about their experience winning the national championship for Northwestern, how it felt being back in class just a day later, and reflected on their dominant seaso...

Andrew and Kirstin reflect on Final Four weekend and Northwestern winning its second national championship in four years, knocking off Saint Joseph's 5-0 in Sunday's championship.   They look at the final Bracket Challenge standings and discuss whether this championship means that Northwestern has surpassed North Carolina as the dominant program at the top of the sport.    

Andrew and Kirstin file a dispatch from the front lines of frigid Ann Arbor following Friday's national semifinals that saw St. Joe's upset North Carolina in the first game and Northwestern hold off Massachusetts in the second. They talk about what they saw and heard and look ahead to Sunday's National Championship.  Remember if you're in Ann Arbor to join us Saturday at 7 p.m. at The Brown Jug lo...

Andrew and Kirstin prepare for their trip to frigid Michigan this weekend for the Division I Final Four by speaking to all four head coaches involved in Friday's national semifinals.  They're joined by St. Joe's Hannah Prince (18:36), Northwestern's Tracey Fuchs ,(31:02), North Carolina's Erin Matson  (41:06), and Massachusetts' Barb Weinberg  (53:53).   They also take a look back at last weekend'...