Hear Her Sports

By: Evergreen Podcasts
  • Summary

  • A biweekly podcast where amazing female athletes share stories of breaking barriers, speaking up, and living with power and confidence in today’s changing world. Hear successes and challenges of life as an athlete and thoughts about inequality in sports and media coverage.
    All Rights Reserved 2022-23
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Episodes
  • Natasha Camy, NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Referee...Ep178
    Nov 14 2024
    Natasha Camy is an NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Referee now in her 14th season. She has officiated at the very top level, including in the 2024 Elite 8 game featuring LSU and Iowa, the most watched women’s basketball game in history! She has also officiated in the Conference USA championship, Big 10 conference playoffs, Big 10 final, SEC conference playoffs, WNIT final, WBIT quarterfinal and final. In the episode, Natasha shares with host Elizabeth Emery about how she prepares for games, nerves, cute interactions with players, and how things have changed in the fourteen years she’s been oficiating. Beyond her own officiating career, Natasha is helping others grow in the profession. She founded and runs Referee Ready Academy, a holistic referee development training program. In January 2024 she was announced as an investor for the Cape Town Tigers, a South African basketball club belonging to The Basketball Africa League (BAL); founded by the National Basketball Association (NBA) and International Basketball Federation (FIBA); making her one of the first African American women to do so. The investment deems Camy one of the only African American women to invest in a BAL team. Get involved and support the show directly at https://bit.ly/supportWsports Find all episodes http://www.hearhersports.com/ Find Hear Her Sports on all social @hearhersports Find Natasha on IG at https://www.instagram.com/natashacamy/ Find Referee Ready Academy on IG at https://www.instagram.com/refereeready/ Learn more about Referee Ready Academy at https://refereeready.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Corrine Leistikow Started Endurance Bikepacking At 50 Years Old…Ep177
    Oct 31 2024
    Corrine Leistikow is a 65 year old family physician living in Fairbanks, Alaska. Her passion is being physically active outdoors. She started doing endurance biking and skiing events at age 50, when her children became teenagers. She continues to push her limits as an older athlete. Corrine tells host Elizabeth Emery about her adventures, pushing ourselves as older athletes, staying, why more older women don’t do endurance bikepacking, strength training, her own severe stomach issues while racing, and hostess donuts. Corrine’s first event was the Fireweed 200. Since then she has done the Leadville 100 mountain bike race, White Mountain 100 -- twice on skis and once on a fat bike, the Smoke N Fire 400, BC Epic 100, Tour Divide (a 2700-mile bikepacking race from Banff, Canada to the Mexico Border in New Mexico), the 700 mile Trans South Dakota, and 700 mile Cross Washington. And she has tried twice to finish the 350 mile Unbound Gravel XL. Get involved and support the show directly at https://bit.ly/supportWsports Find all episodes http://www.hearhersports.com/ Find Hear Her Sports on all social @hearhersports Follow Corrine through her blog at https://notquiteoverthehillcorrineanderic.blogspot.com/ Find Corrine on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/corrine.leistikow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    51 mins
  • Iris Slappendel Le Tour de France Femmes Eurosport Analyst…Ep176
    Oct 17 2024
    In this episode, Iris Slappendel shares with host Elizabeth Emery stories of all things Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift. Iris is a commentator and reporter for Eurosport and is an expert source about the women’s peleton, teams, politics, and racing tactics. Iris raced professionally for 12 years with much success including a Dutch national road race title in 2014. After retiring at the end of 2016, Iris launched her own apparel brand called I R I S, her first name but also an abbreviation of ‘I Ride In Style’. Being educated as a product designer and having the experience of being a pro cyclist, Iris designs all products from start to finish, having complete control over the materials, the fit and the design. Bold, fearless and colorful, I R I S is for anybody and everybody that wants to express their own personality on the bike and most importantly have fun with every ride. Her products address the specific needs of female cyclists. Iris co-founded and is now executive director of The Cyclists’ Alliance (TCA), an organization that supports women pro cyclists and campaigns to improve their working conditions. Get involved and support the show directly at https://bit.ly/supportWsports Find all episodes http://www.hearhersports.com/ Find Hear Her Sports on all social @hearhersports Find Iris apparel line at https://www.i-ris.cc/ Follow Iris on IG at https://www.instagram.com/irisslappendel/ Hear Iris Slappendel on Ep42 about The Cyclists’ Alliance https://www.hearhersports.com/archives#/episode-42-iris-slappendel-womens-cycling-union/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    55 mins

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