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Julie DiCaro is a sportswriter and senior editor at Deadspin, as well as a podcaster, and former sports talk radio host in Chicago. She is a Peabody Award winning journalist and has appeared in media outlets such as the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, the Washington Post and Vice Sports. Get a copy of Sidelined: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54425525-sidelined Follow Julie on Instagram @juliedicaro Read Julie's work on Deadspin (https://deadspin.com/author/julieadicaro) __________ Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. Check out our other podcasts: Sports Break and The Warm Up!

This episode we get to chat with Amber McKenzie! She is a two-time world champion (2009, 2013) and Tewarraton Finalist. Amber was named to the All World Team in 2009 and 2013, and was named Defender of the World in 2009. She stepped away from the U.S. National Team in 2014, but returned to the sport in 2018, playing in the Women’s Professional Lacrosse League winning the first ever championship with team Command. Amber most recently played in Athletes Unlimited's inaugural lacrosse season, and is also the Co-Director of Sound Lacrosse in Connecticut. Follow Amber on Instagram and Twitter. Follow Athletes Unlimited on Instagram and Twitter. ------ Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. Check out our other podcasts: Sports Break and The Warm Up!

This episode we get to chat with Michael Willett and Tristan Reaves of WalkOn Nation!  WalkOn Nation was founded by former UCF Football student-athlete Michael Willett and Tristan Reaves. They saw and still see the huge void in holistic development of athletes across the country. Year after year they saw how unprepared their teammates and fellow student-athletes were entering AND leaving college. WalkOn Nation was created to redefine athletic identity to ultimately empower student-athletes to allow their platform to enhance them, not define them. See more of the work Michael and Tristan do on the WalkOn website. Follow WalkOn Nation on Instagram and Twitter. Email WalkOn Nation to have them come to your school! ------ Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. Check out our other podcasts: Sports Break and The Warm Up!

"Any day we get to ride is a good day." This episode we got to chat with LJ, aka Jackalope13 Racing, who has been racing Texas offroad for 39+ years! It was so fun to learn about this sport from such a passionate athlete and advocate for more women to get into racing! She's a champion, she's a badass, she's a joy to listen to and we know you'll love her racing stories! LJ shares how racing was a family sport - her mother and father were incredible racers themselves - and how she works to create a safe space for women who ride.  #livetorideanotherday Follow LJ on Instagram and YouTube Be sure to tune in to LJ's Monday Night Live shows on Mondays at 8:30pm ET on Instagram! Documentary LJ mentioned: Harley & the Davidsons on Amazon Prime ------ AD: Marq UP Personal Training Email, Facebook, Instagram, Website ------ Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Check out our other podcasts: Sports Break and The Warm Up!

This episode we chat with Niamh Tallon, founder of Her Sport - Ireland's only media platform dedicated to women in sport! Founded in 2018, Her Sport aims to inspire women and girls of all ages to participate in sport, encouraging them to try anything from running to ultimate frisbee, football to softball. Tallon started the platform due to a clear underrepresentation of women’s sport in the media. Currently just 6% of sports media coverage is given to women which has a critical rippling effect. Without airtime and coverage female athletes lose out on sponsorship, fans and opportunities. By the age of 14, girls drop out of sport at twice the rate of boys. This is not for a lack of passion or skill. Women and girls’ sport are under-promoted, robbing young girls and boys of role models they can aspire to be like. Her Sport aims to give young girls and women the platform to celebrate and champion their achievements and share their stories. Follow Her Sport on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Website, YouTube and Instagram ------ AD: Marq UP Personal Training Email, Facebook, Instagram, Website ------ Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Check out our other podcasts: Sports Break and The Warm Up!

We're excited to chat with Jamie Mittelman, host of the Flame Bearers Podcast which spotlights woman-identifying Olympians and Paralympians. The podcast is the COVID-adaption of a dream communications position Jamie had been pitching to the International Olympic Committee — details here. She’s a Masters of Public Administration (MPA) graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). We loved chatting about storytelling through podcasting and all of the phenomenal women Flame Bearers is highlighting.  Flame Bearers: The women athletes carrying Tokyo’s torch celebrates the journeys of Tokyo’s unsung women olympians & paramlympians and provides action-oriented analysis of the issues closest to their hearts. We spotlight some of our world’s greatest master of resiliency & arms listeners with tips + calls to action for how we can all better stand together. Follow Flame Bearers on Facebook, LinkedIn, Website, and Instagram Listen to the Flame Bearers pod on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts ------ AD: Marq UP Personal Training Email, Facebook, Instagram, Website ------ Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Check out our other podcasts: Sports Break and The Warm Up!

Meet Lesley Ryder and Emily Anderson - the dynamic duo behind Gal Pal Sports! From their hilarious Office spoof on Sky Blue FC and an incredible video series introducing new fans to NWHL, Lesley and Emily are making top-notch content that draws in new fans to women's sports (and are just flat out enjoyable for those of us already in the know)! About Gal Pal Sports: "Worn out by the existing narratives around women’s sports, we were ready to enjoy our leagues the same way we enjoy men’s sports - with a couple of beers and a lot of laughs. We started creating videos en route to France for the World Cup and over a year later we’re still going. We aim to make sports fun, make fun of sports, and do some good along the way." Follow Gal Pal Sports on YouTube, Twitter, Website, and Instagram Get your very own "Meg Is The Schedule Out Yet" shirt ------ AD: Marq UP Personal Training Email, Facebook, Instagram, Website ------ Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Check out our other podcasts: Sports Break and The Warm Up!

This episode we are joined by Kayla Lombardo, lead editor for Softball America and web editor for Baseball America! Kayla is a former Division I softball team captain at Fordham University and a three-time Atlantic 10 Conference champion and NCAA Tournament participant. At Fordham, she was a two-time First Team All-Atlantic 10 Conference honoree and a two-time Third Team NFCA All-Region selection. She earned academic honors at Fordham as well, graduating magna cum laude in 2015 and earning Academic All-District and Academic All-Conference honors as a Ram. After college, she wrote for Sports Illustrated and Excelle Sports, and later went on to coach Division I softball at Lehigh University, where she earned a master’s degree in 2019. We loved our chat with Kayla and hope you enjoy and it gets you ready for some NCAA softball viewing this spring!! Follow Kayla on Twitter and Instagram (where she gives softball coaching tips!) Follow Softball America on Twitter, Website, Facebook and Instagram ------ AD: Marq UP Personal Training Email, Facebook, Instagram, Website ------ Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Check out our other podcasts: Sports Break and The Warm Up!

In this episode, we are joined by sports reporter Penny Guevara! Penny has a long history of writing and publication in the sports world. She covers the WNBA for Beyond Women's Sports and we talk about the unity that exists within the world of women's sports. More about Beyond Women's Sports: "Simply put… we love sports! But we love women’s sports and feel they should be featured in the public eye just like the rest. We will make it our job to do so and bring you all the best content available! We are a new site aiming to bring you the best women’s sports coverage in the world. We will be covering basketball, softball, tennis, soccer, etc. Our motto is, “Empowering and bringing unity within women’s sports”; so if you’re looking for a website fully supporting women’s sports, we got you covered." Please give Beyond Women's Sports a follow on Instagram and Twitter. Check out some of Penny's work on the BWS website! ------ Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Check out our new podcast: Sports Break!

This episode we are so excited to be joined by Honiball Humans co-founders, Santi Gallo and Laura Torres! Santi is also Associate General Manager at OL Reign. He and Laura founded the organization in Colombia and have an amazing platform sharing stories of women in sports - we can't wait for you to hear all of the inspiration they have found and share in this episode! Please give Honiball Humans a follow on Instagram. ------ AD: Marq UP Training Email, Facebook, Instagram, Website ------ Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Check out our new podcast: Sports Break!

This episode we are so excited to be joined by Haley Rosen, CEO and Founder of Just Women's Sports!  Haley received a BA and an MA from Stanford University, where she played as a midfielder for the Cardinal soccer team. After a brief professional soccer career in both the US and abroad, Haley returned to the Bay Area, where she first worked in tech before founding Just Women’s Sports. A little bit about JWS: "Only 4% of sports coverage is dedicated to women’s sports. We’re here to change that. We’ve teamed up with some of the best athletes in the world to change how women’s sports are covered. This isn’t a token vertical buried in the back pages. We’re not at the bottom of some pulldown menu. We believe female athletes can fill more than the occasional feature—they can be the entire publication. From highlights to podcasts, newsletters and swag, JWS brings fans everything they need to see and know in the world of women’s sports. We’re just getting started, and we’re pumped to have you with us." Enjoy this episode and please give Just Women's Sports a follow here: Twitter Instagram Facebook Website YouTube TikTok Podcast Subscribe to the Newsletter ------   Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Check out our new podcast: Sports Break!

This episode we are so excited to be joined by Jon Patricof, CEO and Co-Founder of Athletes Unlimited. AU is a new pro sports venture that launched in 2020 with its inaugural softball season and on February 27 their inaugural indoor volleyball season will begin!  Jon was most recently President of Major League Soccer’s New York City Football Club and still currently serves on their Board of Directors. Prior to NYCFC, he spent 11 years as President and COO of Tribeca Enterprises, the owner and operator of the Tribeca Film Festival and related business ventures. He was the first employee at Tribeca and helped build the company into a multi-dimensional business with a globally recognized brand. Among his accomplishments was the creation of the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival as well as the company’s landmark branded content partnerships with Dick’s Sporting Goods and American Express. Patricof started his career at Disney where he worked as a member of the strategic planning department helping grow the Disney, ESPN and ABC brands across video, audio and digital platforms. Between these companies he has executed investments and strategic partnerships, launched multiple new businesses and overseen sales, marketing, digital and content, legal, finance and operations. Jon received an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College where he was a member of the baseball team. We got to chat about starting a brand new sports league and what sets Athletes Unlimited apart from any other league in existence. From their unique scoring systems to their weekly team drafts, AU really has revolutionized the way we can experience professional sports. Enjoy! Follow Athletes Unlimited here: Twitter Instagram Facebook Website YouTube -->  Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Check out our new podcast: Sports Break!

This episode we are joined by the brilliant Julie Uhrman, Founder and President at Angel City Football Club (Angel City)! This was such an incredible conversation about how Julie and the ACFC team are bringing a new era of sport and entertainment to Los Angeles, the NWSL and the world! Previously, Julie served as EVP & GM of Over-The-Top Ventures for Lionsgate, building and managing the company’s multiple streaming franchises. In 2013, she founded and was CEO of OUYA, a pioneering Android-based game console for the living room, which raised a record-breaking $8.6 Million through Kickstarter and then went on to secure venture funding from Kleiner Perkins and Alibaba before selling to Razer in 2015.  She has been named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and one of the Creative 50 by Ad Age. We were thrilled to chat with her - enjoy the episode and check below for ways to connect with Angel City FC! Follow Angel City FC on Twitter and Instagram Follow Julie on Twitter  Become an ACFC member! -->  Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! <-- Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Check out our new podcast: Sports Break!

Join our chat with Chauntiel Smith-Jones, CEO and Founder of Capture Sports Agency. Chauntiel is a sports agent for players in the WNBA and FIBA with dreams of one day owning her own sports team! Capture Sports Agency helps shape and form athletes, helping them become positive role models as well as learn to capture their audience. Follow Chauntiel on Twitter Follow Capture Sports Agency on Twitter and visit their website -->  Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! <-- Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Create our new, free NWHL fantasy games here: fantasy.she-plays.com CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: Sports Break!

This episode we are joined by Jenna Weiner and absolutely loved our conversation with her. She is an ultimate player for the Western Ultimate league, as well as a disc golfer, trans woman, scholar, musician, and TEDx speaker. This conversation was so moving and really highlights one of the most beautiful things that sports can be: a safe space. It's not always the case. It's different league by league, team by team. Jenna's story though is inspirational in how one person being authentic and vulnerable led to dramatic change in her sport.  Give Jenna a follow on Twitter, check out her blog, watch her TED talk and support the WUL when they begin playing this year! -->  Sign up for the She Plays newsletter! <-- Follow She Plays on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook Create our new, free NWHL fantasy games here: fantasy.she-plays.com CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: Sports Break!