Keeping Track speaks with US 800m runner Valery Tobias about her start in the sport, her time on the team at the University of Texas, transitioning to professional Track and on making her first World Champs team ! Tune in to her first round race 11:15 am March 21st on peacock!
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42:07
What Is Confidence? With Erika Kemp
I talk to Erika Kemp, who 6 weeks ago ran a big PB with her 2:22 runner up finish at the Houston Marathon. We tried to pivot from race talk since it’s been re-hashed on many a pod so for those links check out our episode page at www.keeping-track.com (and sign up for the email list to stay up to date on future episodes show notes and links)!
Erika bettered her record as the fastest American-born Black Woman Marathoner and landed 12 on the US women's marathon all-time list. We talk about her unique and a little stressful position as being 5th in line for the World Championship team berth this summer, and we cover her colleg experience, confidence, book recs, fashion and the city of Providence!
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39:01
Who Is The Female Sports Fan?
We're realizing stereotypical sports fandom is actually male sports fandom- but the numbers are in, and they say the ladies are here and they love sports too! In fact Wasserman Collectives newest data set shows that over 70% of women surveyed from 30 countries consider themselves an avid sports fan! With a majority control of discretionary spending, they are an invaluable demographic. How do women experience sports fandom differently, and what's not so different? Why does it matter and how can it be better harnessed by the sports industry? Let's hear what the Vice President of the Wasserman (yes, that Wasserman, the big sport and music agency one!) Danielle Smith has to say.
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40:21
Navigating Athlete Retirement
Aisha Praught-Leer is an Olympian, the 2018 Commonwealth Games Steeplechase Champion, and has held Jamaican records from the 1500m to the 5000m....but some of her favorite moments in sport are from the parts you never got to see!
Molly and Aisha also get into how she decided to structure her retirement, what she is doing now, the mental transition and it's challenges, what she'd like to see improve in the sport as a whole and what gives her hope. Thanks for Keeping Track!
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40:18
Olympic Athletes and Motherhood
Alysia and Molly talk about some of the &Mother initiatives and beyond in how to support Mother Athletes at the Olympics and Paralympic Games.
"What we want for female athletes is to allow them to be holistically themselves....
this is what I tell my daughter. You have an opportunity to be yourself, you have an opportunity to be an upstander and you have the opportunity to leave the world better than you found it and if you listen to every negative voice....you are going to be the one who's on the bottom of the floor. What you want to do is be the one climbing the ladder and bringing people up with you"
-Alysia Montaño on racing while pregnant and not listening to negative comments
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Alysia Montano, Molly Huddle and Roisin McGettigan are three Olympians, from 2 countries, including 2 Moms and 1 current pro coming together to talk about the inspiring figures, important topics and interesting stories in women's sports. We care about the landscape and future of our sport of Track and Field and we want to create more media coverage of women's sports in general. We'll be interviewing inspiring athletes, and discussing topics and news in the track world and beyond. Thanks for Keeping Track with us!
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