Women Unscripted

The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport and WeCOACH teamed up for a special episode to discuss the latest Women in College Coaching Report Card. In this podcast, Tucker Center Director Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi and  TC Research Assistant, Courtney Boucher and WeCOACH CEO Megan Kahn review the latest results and data. They talk about data trends, grades and leaders for institutions, spor...

WeCOACH and The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport team up for a special episode to discuss the latest Women in College Coaching Report Card. In this podcast, WeCOACH CEO Megan Kahn, Tucker Center Director Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi and TC Research Assistant, Courtney Boucher review the latest results and data. They talk about data trends, grades and leaders for institutions, sports, an...

With one week to go to the start of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Nancy and Chris are joined by Associated Press reporter Anne Peterson who will be covering all the soccer. Nancy has been to a few Olympics and specializes in women’s soccer so no better person to ask for her predictions on the teams to look out for. We also find out what the not so secret weapon is of the gold medal favorites, USA, and...

How to get acclimated to the heat is the subject of this week’s episode. Did you know there's a difference between heat acclimation and heat acclimatization? Heat acclimation is likely the one that most people will be able to do and we cover a few different ways you can do it if you have access to a sauna or hot tub. We also discuss why it's important, and how your tolerance to heat can be altered...

The 2013 Honda Cup Winner, Keilani Ricketts, a 6’2” left-handed softball pitcher billed herself exactly as that when pitching to coaches for college recruiting. That not only got their attention but height and hand served her well on the mound for her collegiate career at Oklahoma University and now with USA Softball. Keilani was introduced to a variety of sports in childhood and followed three si...

Arizona based dressage rider and trainer Cyndi Jackson would seem to have a full time job with ten horses in training and a roster of clients to teach. This is usually enough for most equestrians in a day. However for this 43 year old wife of Philip (aka PJ) and mother of seven year old Ronin, it’s a day that starts when most people are asleep at 3am. That’s the time Cyndi will be out on the trail...

Tennis is the top story this week as Wimbledon gets down to the quarter final stages. Britain’s Emma Raducanu, 18, made it through to the fourth round in her Wimbeldon debut and made a name for herself with a determined fight against Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic before being forced to retire when she was not feeling well in the second set. Emma’s retirement due to health concerns comes after the w...

This week, Kirstin discusses nutrition for extreme weather. After her experience in Coeur D'Alene she saw many athletes experience a wide range of issues. From GI distress to cramping to dehydration and overheating there were many lessons and takeaways from that race. We discuss both nutrition for hot and cold weather. When is whole food appropriate versus liquid calories? We discuss some of the b...

Sarah Pavan, the 2007 Honda Cup winner is one of the best and rarest examples of a volleyball athlete who excelled at both indoor and beach games at the highest level. A collegiate four-time All American and University of Nebraska National Champion, Sarah went on to play professionally and is now headed to the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo. Coming from a sports minded family in Kitchener, Canada, Sarah s...

U.S. based Australian Eventer Ema Klugman started to turn heads this spring riding her seasoned partner Bendigo and making herself at home in her five-star debut where the pair finished 33rd. For the 23 year old to realize just one of her life ambitions with a horse she has had since she was 14 is the dream of many horse-mad girls. Her confidence and panache were evident as she galloped across the...

Abby chats to three sailors; Annie Lush, Lara Poljšak and Annika Möslein, all of whom have recently competed in the The Ocean Race Europe, which started on May 29 from Lorient and finished in Genoa on June 19. The Europe race is a new event designed to showcase top-flight, fully-crewed, competitive ocean racing featuring crew members from all over the world racing in foiling IMOCA 60s and one-desi...

Megan’s guest this week is Yolanda Bronston, the girls varsity basketball coach at St Johns Country Day School in Florida. Coach Yo’s passion for teaching the game of basketball as much as the game of life radiates in this conversation. Her authentic leadership and genuine care for her athletes has led her to an amazing career in coaching, from girls to boys, from college to high school. And her u...

Olympic fever is real now as teams are announced on a daily basis following final trials and ahead of their departure for Tokyo.  Nancy explains the whys and wherefores to this week's top stories including new records in athletics, changing rules for the Olympic Games, plus the start of Wimbledon Tennis Championships, Round 2 of motor racing's W Series, a 19 year old PGA Champion, England enjoys a...

She made it! Kirstin is now officially an Ironman and in this episode we hear what it took to complete the Coeur D'Alene Ironman 202. If we could label this year as extreme with the fires, ice storms and everything else, this race came with another level of extreme. If you were following the day, athletes encountered extreme temperatures and the DNF rate was one of the highest seen at an Ironman r...

he 1990 Honda Cup winner, Suzy Favor, excelled as a middle distance runner for decades and in three Olympics. It all began with adventures in her family. However, starting as a high school US Jr Record Holder in the 1500m and as she went to University of Wisconsin she was also coping with bulimia. Having overcome it she now shares her insights and explains that it’s not about food but about contro...

Alison Robitaille came within two seconds of winning this year’s Upperville Jumping Classic, the $213,000 finale to the prestigious Upperville Colt & Horse Show. But it was meaningful for the local rider nonetheless since this was her home show. A native Virginian, Alison has ridden on this turf all her life. She inherited her passion for horse sports and first made her mark on the U.S. Team when...

Nicole's guest this week is Dr. Anna Baeth, Director of Research at Athlete Ally; an organization with the mission to end the rampant homophobia and transphobia in sport and to activate the athletic community to exercise their leadership to champion LGBTQI+ equality. Anna is a former Research Assistant in the Tucker Center, and forever a member of the Tucker Team. She is a field hockey and lacross...

Last week England Cricket faced India in a rare Test Match for the women’s game and these two giant teams were as expected very competitive. It was a game that was followed closely by Radha Gupta from her home in New Delhi and she joins us to share her thoughts on the match that ended in a draw. Radha is a supporter of women’s sport and founder of She Talks Ball. Nancy has a round up of the news t...

On this week’s episode Kirstin shares with us how she is feeling one week out from her first Ironman. It's almost here and we hear about her taper week training, what that looks like as well as tips to keep in mind heading into your first race. She shares some key mindset tips to help stay focused, but also make sure to take the pressure off, especially for the first race. This could apply to your...

Misty May was the national champion Long Beach State volleyball player as well as three time Olympic gold medalist, and the 1999 Honda Cup winner. Misty says she is one of the lucky ones. She was not asked to choose a sport in her youth. Rather she played multiple sports all the while living on the beach where volleyball became the sport she loved the most. Growing up in a sports oriented family w...

On S3E13 of The WeCOACH Podcast presented by Hudl, Marci is joined by United States Marine Corps, Major Christine Taranto. For elite athletes, anxiety, depression and emotional recovery are sometimes the most devastating and most difficult obstacles to overcome post-injury. Christine shares her story of recovery and the battle within to realize she is much more than an elite runner. Adopting a new...

Nancy has selected her top stories from around the world to kick off this week’s episode starting with the French Open Tennis, plus a great deal for women’s rugby, additions to the Cricket Hundred teams announced, Irish boxer Kellie Harrington winning European gold and her ticket to Tokyo as has US Swimmer Katie Ledecky plus a four year ban for 1500m Olympic hopeful Shelby Houlihan.  And then Chri...

Tara Kirk’s transition from swimming—she was the U.S. record holder in 50,100 and 200 breaststroke—to a professional career was much different than many others. And it was not without lessons learned that she went from swimming on the world stage to the world stage in pandemics and bioterrorism. And this has never been more relevant than in this unusual year where a pandemic has affected all of ou...

Kirstin is two weeks away from the Coeur D'Alene Ironman so she has started her taper week and is feeling good and ready to go. In this episode she discusses a few things that can impact runners and the run portion of triathlon. Side stitches and bonking. What are they? What causes them and why do they happen? How can we avoid them or if they start, what can we do about it? Both bonking and side s...

On this first episode of 2021 our regular contributor, Dr Kirstin Lauritzen, covers our next nutrient highlight: Vitamin D. We have briefly talked about the benefits of Vitamin D in previous episodes, so today we are diving deep. It’s of course, January, and we are getting close to the dead center of winter. For people that live in darker areas of the world, like the Pacific Northwest, Vitamin D d...