23 - Elizabeth Emery talks about the tangled web of issues in women's sports

Sideline Sisters

Elizabeth Emery is a former pro cyclist and host of Hear Her Sports podcast. For almost 8 years, she's interviewed female athletes and women in sports about breaking barriers, speaking up, and living with power and confidence in today's changing world.

Her Notes from the Sidelines:

1. It's a tangled web of issues in women's sports.
2. Until women get in positions of power at athletic companies, the gear won't be designed and made to properly fit and honor women's bodies and needs.
3. Lessons she's learned from her guests:
   1. There's power in sports: being good at something, having skills and strength. This translates outside of sports to the workplace, in relationships, the way you walk in the world.
   2. Most people have someone telling them they can do it. We should all be doing this for each other.
   3. Female athletes understand their place in history, that women came before who fought for their place, so they could be where they are. They spend time promoting other women because the fight is not over.
4. In order to get more women's sports on air, when women's sports are available to watch , we must tune in. Women need to serve on boards and be CEOs. Let's buy merch!
5. Sports is a mirror for what's happening in the real world; it lets us talk about issues, like equity.
6. Involvement in physical activity is an opportunity to learn about ourselves: our feelings about competition, beating someone, losing, being overpowered, and when the competitor is younger.
7. It's less about being a gracious winner and more about how you be a good competitor without being a jerk and about being a good teammate.

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Hear Her Sports Podcast
Jesse Diggins' episode
Elizabeth's website
Christine Yu's book Up to Speed - the one about the sports bras and bike seats

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