She Plays She Plays

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!