Sport in Focus

By: Chris Stafford
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  • Sport in Focus takes a closer look at a sport through the eyes of athletes and coaches.
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  • Synchronized Skating with Cass Cross

    Synchronized Skating with Cass Cross
    Sep 16 2021
    Cass Cross is is a national-level synchronized skating coach and the Director of Skating for the Team Ashburn Synchronized Skating teams.  Cass has participated in the sport since 1995 earning many national and international medals with The Colonials Synchronized Skating teams as a member of Team USA.  She also won two national championships with the Esprit de Corps Adult synchronized skating team representing the Hayden Recreation Center FSC. Prior to moving to Northern Virginia, Cass was the Assistant Coach of the Adrian College Varsity Synchronized Skating and Figure Skating teams in Adrian, Michigan. She has coached synchronized skating teams from the beginner through elite-senior levels.

    Host: Chris Stafford

    For more information, links and resources plus conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s First and Only Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 60 hosts, 1300+ episodes across 50 shows and over 7 million downloads. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at info@wispsports.com.
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    31 mins
  • A History of Football with Patricia Gregory

    A History of Football with Patricia Gregory
    Sep 16 2021
    Our guest is Patricia Gregory, an historian of women’s football in the UK who is writing a book on its history.  Patricia became the Hon. Assistant Secretary of the Women’s Football Association from its inception until taking over as Hon. Secretary from Arthur Hobbs in 1972.  A position she held until 1981 when through her encouragement a full time official was appointed –  a full time job, running a club and a league as well as duties for the WFA proved too much.  Prior to becoming an Hon. Life Vice President in 1984, until the dissolution of the WFA in 1993, she served for a year in each capacity as Liaison Officer and Chairman.  She was invited to become a member of the UEFA Women’s Football Committee in 1979 serving 7 terms until 1993.  After the WFA ceased she served for a time on The Women’s Football Alliance Committee of The FA.  Patricia has been a Vice-President of The Women of the Year Association since Tony Lothian first invited her to take the role along with the late Erna Low.   She has spent over 45 years in sports broadcasting for BBC and ITV and was one of the founders of the Women’s Football Association in the  late 1960s.  Patricia was one of the first women in England to qualify as a referee and was a member of the UEFA women’s football committee for fourteen years.

    Host: Chris Stafford

    For more information, links and resources plus conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s First and Only Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 60 hosts, 1300+ episodes across 50 shows and over 7 million downloads. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at info@wispsports.com.
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    33 mins
  • A History of Boxing with Malissa Smith

    A History of Boxing with Malissa Smith
    Sep 16 2021
    On this episode of Sport in Focus Chris Stafford talks to boxer and author Malissa Smith who is the author of A History Of Women's Boxing which will be in its second edition in time for the 202 Tokyo Olympic Games,. Malissa is a speaker and writes frequently on the topic of women's boxing. She is also a practitioner of the sport herself and as she puts it has a keen understanding of the demands of the sweet science on the women who contest the sport, as well as the challenges they face.  The sport has a curious history women’s game since it dates back to the 18th Century and we learn perhaps surprisingly that variety dancers were known to enjoy prize fighting.

    Throughout boxing’s history, women have fought in and out of the ring to gain respect in a sport traditionally considered for men alone. Records of modern female boxing date back to the early eighteenth century in London, and in the 1904 Olympics an exhibition bout between women was held. Yet it was not until the 2012 Olympics—more than 100 years later—that women’s boxing was officially added to the Games. A History of Women’s Boxing traces the sport back to the 1700s, through the 2012 Olympic Games, and up to the present. Inside-the-ring action is brought to life through photographs, newspaper clippings, and anecdotes, as are the stories of the women who played important roles outside the ring, from spectators and judges to managers and trainers.

    Host: Chris Stafford

    For more information, links and resources plus conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s First and Only Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 60 hosts, 1300+ episodes across 50 shows and over 7 million downloads. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at info@wispsports.com.
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    31 mins

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