Women Unscripted

Our guest today is 86 year old  American track & field athlete Irene Obera who specializes in sprint events and during her extended career she has set many world records and won numerous world championships. She is currently a member of the W70 world record holding 4x100 metres relay team. She also holds the current American record in the W60 and W75 100 metres and the W75 200 metres.  Her accolad...

Our guest today is Jane Thurnell-Read who believes in competing against herself rather than others and now in her 70’s maintains a strict fitness and dietary regime. Jane says she was extremely unfit as a child and lost her way in her twenties with excessive smoking and drinking the hard stuff. It was a lifestyle she completely turned when she started going to the gym and swimming.  By the time sh...

This week's guest is the head softball coach at Texas A&M, Jo Evans. With an impressive 1200+ wins to her name and a 7-time conference coach of the year, Jo was inducted into the 2015 NFCA Hall of Fame. Not only is she a recent addition to the WeCOACH Board of Directors, her well-earned respect on the national level gives her a voice and platform to influence positive growth on and off the diamond...

Nancy Gillen is in Yekaterinburg, Russia this week and Chris Stafford is in the USA with the top stories in . women's sport. 19 year old Bianca Andreescu from Ontario became the first Canadian to win a Tennis Grand Slam defeating Serena Williams 6-3, 7-5 and is now sitting at No 5 in the WTA World Rankings, her highest ever. British Eventer Pippa Funnell and MGH Grafton Street winning the Land Rov...

Our guest this week is American multi-discipline rider and driver Carrie Wehle who can turn her hand to a number of equestrian sports from dressage to driving.  A lifelong horsewoman Carrie recently competed in the USEA American Eventing Championships, the sport she says which is her first love. But she’s just as adept at pure dressage or out fox hunting. Her family raised Standardbreds from the 1...

Mental skills are an important, albeit underrated, contributor to athletic success and in this episode of Bit by Bit Erin McGuire addresses self-talk, which is the inner monologue in your head. Fun fact: It’s estimated that humans have between 60-80 thousand thoughts a day! Self-talk can be said aloud, but most often occurs in the confines of one’s mind. The thing about self-talk is that you are y...

On this week’s episode this is something for everyone—the common cold, those pesky viruses that always seem to hit us when we’re in good shape and making great progress on our training plans. Dr Juliet McGrattan explores the risks and benefits of exercising when you have a cold. Will exercise make you feel better? Will it make you feel worse? What type of exercise should you do? With a run through...

Welcome to the WiSP Sports Desk where ever week Nancy Gillen from Inside the Games will be joining Chris Stafford to share the latest news headlines from around the world.  On this episode we discuss: Jamaican teenage sprinter Brianna Williams positive doping test Netball changing venue for Commonwealth Games FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 bidding race The squabble over SUP The new concept of sports...

On this week’s episode our guest is Irish dressage rider Judy Reynolds who has been riding a wave of success with her 17 year old Dutch gelding Vancouver K or JP as he is know to his friends.  The pair recorded three personal best scores at the Longines FEI European Championships in Rotterdam last month scoring 85.589 in the Freestyle to finish 5th, 78.252 in the GP Special where they also finishe...

Canadian Sprinter Karla Del Grande, 66 has been a member of CMA for 16 years, and is now competing in the W65 age group. In that time, she has set numerous Canadian records. She currently (as of April) holds 24 individual and 10 relay Canadian records. She has broken 11 World MA records and currently holds 8. She has won 25 gold and 5 silver medals in individual events at WMA Indoor and Outdoor Ch...

This month we discuss the Black Ferns recent victory over Australia and what's on the cards for the team. We start our first in a series of interviews in the build up to the Women's Cricket World Cup 2021 with White Ferns Captain Amy Satterthwaite as she prepares for the birth of her first child.  And we tackle pay agreements coverage and women's Twenty20 being included in the Commonwealth Games....

In episode 23 Megan Kahn's guest is Valorie Kondos Field. Better known as Miss Val, she is considered one of, if not THE BEST, collegiate gymnastics coaches of all time. During her impressive 29-yr tenure as head coach at UCLA, she led the Bruins to 7 national championships. Known as much for her joy off the mat, this episode oozes inspiration, finding the courage to make the ask, and learning to...

On Episode 3, Erin McGuire chats about SMART goal setting: how to set goals of all shapes and sizes that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Goals play so many roles in an athletic setting. They’re challenging yet motivational, they contribute to confidence and rewarding once achieved. Goals are not one size fits all: they can be set in many shapes and sized. Result goa...

Anneli Drummond Hay was born of Scottish aristocracy and devoted her childhood to ponies before finding her way into eventing and show jumping. She became recognized as one of the greatest horsewomen or her generation. Her legendary partnership with Merely-a-Monarch engraved her place in the annals of eventing and show jumping history.  At the age of 16 she won the European Pony Championship and w...

Our guest today is Inside the Games reporter Nancy Gillen who has pursued her passion for sport by becoming a sports journalist. Nancy travels the world covering the stories both in and out of competition and she has just returned from Lima, Peru where she spent two weeks covering all sports.  Nancy is a keen soccer fan having played herself until injury forced her out of the game and now her job...

We will all have experienced a side stitch at one time or another, they’re common, painful and annoying and can be really off-putting for beginners. Listen in to hear about the theories of what causes a stitch. With reference to this article in Sports Medicine on ‘Exercise-Related Transient Abdominal Pain’ Dr. Juliet McGrattan points out that different types of exercise make stitches more likely....

Our guest is Bernadette Murray who together with her friend Lara Friesan will embark on the 2560 mile horseback ride of the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada in April 2020.  The journey will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Murray family thru-ride beginning in April 2020, and ending October 2020. They will explore and compare the countless differences between then and now. From...

On this week’s show we go behind the scenes as we talk to eventing groom Rachael Livermore, 28, who manages Sharon White’s Last Frontier Farm eventing team. Rachael explains how her life with horses began and how career with event horses has evolved. We know that working with horses takes passion and dedication but really good grooms also have an instinct and loyalty that makes them much sought af...

On this episode of The Sailing Show Abby Ehler delves into the world of mentoring programs, Abby’s first guest is Kate-Mardel Ferreira, who has previously been a professional sailor and race yacht captain and more recently has worked within the shore side roles of the sport.  Kate is currently head of Operations & Sailing Programmes at 1851 Trust, a charity aiming to inspire young people to pursue...

On this week's episode Erin focuses on Control Based Thinking. Control is an essential part of clearing your headspace: thought control, emotional control, and physical control are all parts of mental strength training. What about specifics, what about controlling the ball? controlling your horse? Controlling your opponent, or your environment, or your outcome? How many of these things can you act...

On episode 22 of The WeCOACH Podcast, host Megan Kahn catches up with Wellesley head women’s soccer coach Missy Price. Known as much for her work off the field, as her success on the pitch, Missy is synonymous with leadership and empowering others around her. Missy’s voice and platform are giving her opportunities to grow the game on a national level, empower student-athletes to become the best ve...

Our guest is British based South African triathlete Gillian Curr Sanders who is aiming for her third Olympic Games in 2020 before she retires after 10 years as a pro.  Gillian grew up in Pietermaritzburg, and took up triathlon in her youth under the influence of her father and older sister, who both competed in the sport. After competing internationally in age group and junior competition Sanders...

American born 21 year old Emily Moffitt made her debut on the British team when she rode a double clear round in the FEI Nations Cup to win the prestigious Aga Khan Trophy at Dublin Horse Show last week alongside her trainer Ben Maher.  It was Britain's 27th victory on the hallowed turf of Ballsbridge and for Emily it will be the first major milestone in what will undoubtedly be an exciting future...

Dr. Juliet McGrattan talks us through some questions and concerns you may have when you’re a new mother and want to go swimming. So much of the advice is about when it’s safe for your baby to swim and not about you! When is it ok for you to hit the pool? What if you had a vaginal tear, stitches or a Caesarean section? Juliet discusses the new Return to Running Guidelines published in the UK in Mar...

Our guest this week is Dr Bridie O’Donnell, Head of the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation in Melbourne, Australia to discuss the issues affecting women and girls from her perspective, the progress that the organization has made to advance women and girls participation in sport and the challenges that lie ahead. Bridie graduated as Valedictorian from the University of Queensland Medical Scho...