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The final episode of Season 3! Katie Mullan is an international hockey player and captain of the Ireland Women’s Hockey team. Katie has captained the team through their 2018 Hockey World Cup campaign, where they won silver, and lead them in their qualification for the 2020 Olympics. Katie talks about growing up playing camogie and hurling, the importance of increasing access to sport for younger girls at grassroots level, and how the team have coped during periods of separation due to COVID-19, whilst looking ahead to the Tokyo 2020 games.
SheSport: @shesport_
Katie Mullan: @katiemullan1
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Run Of A Kind, Birmingham's first and only running tour, was founded by Lucy Canham with support from, running tour guide, Hannah Green. Both having been active since a young age, Lucy and Hannah met through local running club Run Brum Crew. Lucy founded ROAK after the great experience she's had at running tours in other cities across the world. Hannah and Lucy talk about how running tours can brilliant for tourists and locals alike, the camaraderie in running clubs or groups, and the ideas they have to develop the business in the future.
SheSport: @shesport_
Run Of A Kind Birmingham: @runofakindbirmingham
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Grace Harvey is a GB para-swimmer and is ranked in the top 5 worldwide for her top two events. Grace is a 10 times British Record holder, breaking the 200m IM short course European record in 2017 and won bronze in the 100m backstroke at the Euros 2018. Grace talks about the experience of swimming camps and getting into the GB squad, the disparity and integration between Para and able-bodied events, plus looking ahead to the Tokyo Paralympics and the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
SheSport: @shesport_
Grace Harvey: @graceharveygb
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Rachael Collins is a mountaineer and aspiring Ultra runner. Rachael has completed a number of big ascents including; Kilimanjaro, Annapurna circuit, Cotopaxi, as well as several attempts of Mont Blanc. Rachael talks to us about how she got in to mountaineering, the potential challenges for people interested in participating in outdoor adventure sports and the lack of women out on the mountains.
SheSport: @shesport_
Rachael Collins: @rachael_collins
British Mountaineering Council: thebmc.co.uk
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Mira Erda is a racing driver and Red Bull athlete. Mira started racing at 9 years old, now a Formula 4 driver, she keeps making history; including becoming the first Indian woman to ever compete in the Euro JK race series, back in 2017. Mira talks about her experience as one of the few women on the India F4 circuit, how the support of her family and friends has been critical for success and her big plans for the future.
SheSport: @shesport_
Mira Erda: @mira_erda
Red Bull India: @redbullindia
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Welcome to Season 3! Tazneem Anwar and Dahlia Choudhary both started running to get more active and have gone on to get involved with Park Run, and compete in marathons and half-marathons, all alongside full-time work and family life. Taz has also been selected as an Asics Frontrunner and has set up a running group specifically for South Asian women. Dahlia and Taz talk about running as a form of self-care, challenging perceptions on clothing and appearance in sport, and how the hashtag, #hijabirunner, is helping to create an online community of South Asian and Muslim women getting involved in running.
SheSport: @shesport_
Tazneem Anwar: @thishijabiruns
Wycombe Women's Run Club
Dahlia Choudhary: 50 miles for February challenge for Human Appeal -
Rhearna Bennett is one half of team behind Female.Football.Fives. Rhearna and Katie wanted to create a flexible, social and fun space to play football, and hence Female.Football.Fives was created. Rhearna talks about how FFF was created, how can more women be attracted into taking part in physical activity and the aims for the future of FFF.
SheSport: @shesport_
Female.Football.Fives: @femalefootballfives -
Hannah Sangan is a Great Britain Age-Group Triathlete, PHD student and triathlon coach. Hannah talks about what a triathlon involves, both in competition and training, the power of social media and gender bias in scientific research.
SheSport: @shesport_
SANGAN High Performance Coaching: @SanganHPC -
Lucy Lomax is the creator of Women's Rugby Hub media outlet and producer, and host, of the Female Athlete Podcast. Lucy talks about how she began her career in sports journalism, the lack of news coverage for female sports and finding a love for women's rugby.
SheSport: @sheport_
Women's Rugby hub: @womensrugbyhub
Female Athlete Podcast: @femaleatheletepod -
Aishwarya Pissay is a professional motorcycle racer; winner of the FIM Baja Rally World Cup, 6 times National Road racing & Rally champion and first-ever Indian athlete to win a motorsport world title on a motorcycle. Aishwarya talks about breaking down gender stereotypes, working on her mental resilience and her long-term career goals.
SheSport: @shesport_
Aishwarya Pissay: @miss.pissay
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Til’Shiloh Shaw is a former Top 20 England Badminton player, having played the sport from Primary school age. We discuss the importance of support networks growing up, how politics and sport can never be separated and why an individual sport is the game for her.
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Emily Morgan and Alice Smyth are PE teachers, who have many years working with young people in schools. We talk about our personal PE experiences, the absence of sufficient resources in schools and how to keep young girls motivated to continue with physical activity into early adulthood.
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Welcome to Season 2! Lana Doran is a recently retired professional basketball player, having played in the WBBL for London Lions and Nottingham Wildcats. Before turning professional, Lana received a college athlete scholarship from Cal U of Pennsylvania with whom she won the NCAA National, Atlantic Regional and 3 conference championships. We discuss the process for finding the right college, the mental health effects of injury and how to navigate work/life balance as a female pro athlete.
If you have been affected by topics discussed in this episode involving incidents of misconduct, please visit the Sport England safeguarding webpage for further advice.
https://www.sportengland.org/how-we-can-help/safeguarding
SheSport instagram: @shesport_
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Jo Gardner has captained Northamptonshire Girls Cricket at multiple age groups, studied at Loughborough University whilst being part of their Loughborough Lightning Cricket squad and won the T20 cup with Warwickshire Bears in 2019. Jo talks about how she got into cricket, the structure of the women’s game and the effects of COVID-19 on the sport.
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Ruth Mwandumba is a Great Britain Talent & England rifle shooter and 2018 Great British champion. Ruth talks about striking the balance between her sporting and work careers, being a SportsAid supported Athlete and her Olympic dreams for Paris 2024.
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Phoebe Schecter is captain of the GB Women's American Football team, former coach for the NFL Buffalo Bills and England Kabbadi captain. Phoebe talks about women's American Football and its growth in the UK, her NFL experience and working as a coach for the UK Dukes.
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Ally Sinyard is the current British Champion for Savate Kickboxing, representing Great Britain in European and World Championships. Ally discusses her experience competing in Savate, the challenges around a weight-determined sport and the ideas of femininity.
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Miriam Zouhou is an England boxer, Nations Champion, three times National finalist and England Women's Box gold medallist. Miriam talks about how she got into boxing, what it's like to be a female in the boxing industry and how it all works in the process of turning professional.
