Women Unscripted

This month’s guest is Kelly Lawrence, Associate Head Women’s Soccer Coach at Boston University. Kelly explains her philosophy for building a winning team culture, keeping the welfare of the student-athletes at the forefront, and being nimble enough to make decisions as a coach. The Women Coaches Academy and Academy 2.0 graduate talks candidly about how she is intentionally growing and readying her...

Team USA reporter Peggy Shinn joins us again this week to preview the start of the World Cup Skiing season with the 2022 Winter Olympics also around the corner. As usual Nancy has gathered all the top stories from around the world beginning with football where there continues to be fallout from the recently reported cases of abuse and the ripple effect from player to the sport’s administrators. An...

On this episode Kirstin describes a really special event that she was a part of this past weekend. If you have ever volunteered for a race, you will have likely experienced some of the emotions that Kirstin shares in this episode. If you haven't volunteered for a race, you will hear many reasons why volunteering for races is a fantastic way to give back. It also gives you a chance to preview a ven...

The all important topic of mental health is the subject for this episode as Naya and Lo share their journeys. Lo explains how she has come to terms with the struggles she has had as a professional athlete, how the Olympic Games affected her. and why she has now started seeing a therapist. Naya has also had to face her own challenges as aa Black woman and is also turning to a therapist to help guid...

Record breaking offshore sailor Dee Caffari talks to British Powerboat Racer Shelley Jory-Leigh about her amazing career which was interrupted by an horrific accident at high speed. Her boat flipped over and Shelley suffered serious injuries during testing in Sardenia in 2010 the boat came off a wave and on landing the bow shattered. Shelley suffered head injuries and a broken nose. It was the sec...

Rugby Sevens Olympian Naya Tapper led one of four teams taking part in the new PR7s Tournament in Memphis, TN last weekend and shares the experience with us as well as her thoughts on how this new concept belongs in women’s rugby sevens. Nancy has the top news stories from around the world including a survey on women’s sport, a study on body shaming elite athletes, the NWSL and WSL protests, tenni...

This week, Kirstin answers a listener's question about pain during workouts. This was a follow up question to the episode from last week where Dr Nicole Woodard discussed stopping workouts especially when you have pain. But when is pain due to under-fueling versus an actual problem that could lead to an injury? Kirstin breaks that question down and includes some common symptoms or situations that...

Helena Scutt began racing dinghies competitively relatively late after a soccer-obsessed childhood. Sailing had always been a part of her life, having grown up on Lake Washington near Seattle, she excelled in the 29er class and was selected for the U.S. Sailing Development Team, progressing through to the 49fx and Nacra 17. Helena took up Moth sailing in 2018 to complement her training in the Nacr...

The hurricane that swept through the NWSL last week was long overdue and the reverberations will be heard for a long time. The significance of what has happened in gymnastics in the US and now in football has grasped the news headlines beyond the sports pages and that is our top story this week. We also have news from tennis, cycling, sailing and handball. But we begin with Nancy’s amazing achieve...

This week Kirstin's guest is Dr. Nicole Woodard from Mobility Athletes. This year, Nicole participated in 29029, which is an endurance event that involves summiting a mountain as many times as it takes to complete 29,029 ft in elevation in 3 days. Also, we discuss the difference between mobility, flexibility and stability in relation to movement and injuries. It's common for athletes to think that...

Naya and Lo are back with a new season of their popular podcast and the girls reveal all (well most) of their Olympic experience. They take us through the long journey to arriving in training camp in Mimasaka, the transfer to the Olympic village and the opening ceremony. Lo fan girling Olympians, favorite moments, what they learned from the experience and getting used to being called an Olympian....

In the kickoff episode of The WeCOACH Podcast, Season 4, presented by Hudl, Megan Kahn’s guest is Katie Robinson, Director of Swimming & Diving at Northwestern University. As one of only three women overseeing Power 5 men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs, Katie offers incredible insight on leading with authenticity, intentional preparation to be a head coach, and building relationships a...

It’s been another week of great lead stories in women’s sport and we begin with Britain's all-women team of Nicola Wilson, Piggy March and Sarah Bullimore scooping all the medals at the European Eventing Championships with team veteran Nicola Wilson recovering from a broken neck in 2019 to becoming the European Team and Individual Champion. In tennis Wimbledon Champion Ash Barty weighs up the chal...

Kirstin addresses the importance of strength training, specifically for the muscles that make up your "core".  It's very common for endurance athletes to skip their strength training or not have it as part of their training at all. This can lead to lower power output and increase the risk of injury. In this episode, we cover which muscles make up the core and how core strength can help reduce risk...

Our featured athlete is newly crowned U.S. Open Women’s Bowling Champion Josie Barnes from Nashville, Tennessee. Josie claimed the biggest prize in the sport in California taking home a check for $100,000 and it was a result that she is most proud of in her career having overcome some personal setbacks in the past few years. Bowling is something that has always been a part of her life since her pa...

Women in sport continue to show the way for future generations from sport’s leadership to officiating. Australian basketball legend Lauren Jackson has been appointed by Basketball Australia to focus on delivering gender equality in sport. Britain’s Sara Cox will be the first woman to referee a Premiership Rugby match. And another British star that is darts player Fallon Sherrock broke another barr...

Kirstin has the first ever guest this week, former U.S. team Lacrosse player Danielle Etrasco who has accomplished quite a bit already in sport as a competitor and now as a coach. Over the past year she has decided to get into Triathlon and completed her first half Ironman in Atlantic City recently. She discusses the ups and downs of being new to Triathlon, which for many is quite a big hurdle, bu...

Emma Raducanu's stunning victory at the U.S. Open is headlines around the sports world so it's not surprising that for the fifth time in seven years the women's final has topped the men's in viewing figures in the US according to ESPN—women’s final 2.442m. Men’s final 2.051m.  Germany's Jessica von Bredahl Werndl and DSF Dalera won all three gold medals at the 2021 European Dressage Championship t...

This is part 2 of the 2-part series on supplements for health and performance. Last week we covered supplements for performance like whey protein, beta alanine, magnesium, vitamin D, turmeric and Omega's. This week we're covering general health supplements like antioxidants, probiotics and iron. These are some of the most commonly used supplements by athletes and they can be really helpful; howeve...

With the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in its final week we discuss youth versus experience as some rising stars in the sport make their mark. Nancy has the latest football news as the Women's Super League (WSL) kicks off its season, and transfers make news on the field while coaches make news from the bench. Meanwhile in golf, Europe beats the U.S. a second straight year in the Solheim Cup, ther...

Kirstin begins this week by sharing some exciting news that she has committed to race the La Quinta, Palm Springs, 70.3 Half Ironman on December 5th. And the main topic on this episode is supplements. Kirstin gets asked about them all the time in her practice and she helps athletes dial in their nutrition specifically for them by using specific testing to evaluate and address areas to maintain the...

American Kendall Gretsch won the Individual Triathlon PTWC by beating Australian Lauren Parker by one second in a thrilling sprint finish and stole the headlines this week. And there were lots more records broken in Tokyo including by para-cyclist Sarah Storey winning her 16th gold medal and New Zealand swimmer Sophie Pascoe claiming her 10th gold. Plus Madison has her pick of the paras for the Yo...

On this month’s episode Abby talks to two sailors who have had very different journeys to the Tokyo Olympic Games. Her first guest is Susann Beucke from Germany, for which Tokyo was her third attempt to compete at the Games. Susann has campaigned in the 470 class and most recently has competed in the 49erFX class, winning the European Championships in 2020 and going on to win an Olympic silver med...

Kirstin ran the famous Hood to Coast relay this past weekend and shares her experience with us. The iconic Pacific NorthWest race is 199 miles of roads and trails from Mt. Hood to the Oregon Coast. Athletes compete with a team of two vans over a 24-hour period. Kirstin ran three legs for a total of 18 miles. If you've ever wondered what a relay race looks like and what to expect, Kirstin gives us...

Irish journalist Louise Parkes joins Chris this week to share her experience and reflections on the Tokyo Olympic Games. Louise was the pen behind the press releases for the FEI in Tokyo and watched history being made at these unusual Games. The world too enjoyed watching as German women not only won dressage and eventing gold medals but also occupied seven places in the top ten of the dressage fr...