A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - Torrie Lewis becomes fastest Aussie woman in history, Diamonds win the Netball Nations cup, and wheelchair tennis player Diede de Groot claims her sixth Australian Open title For the key story we’ll discuss the Basil saga. Buy our kids book The A to Z of Who I Could Be, or book for adults GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT. www.thefemaleathleteproject.com/shop Get the wrap delivered into your inbox as a weekly newsletter! Subs...
Jan 29, 2024•30 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - Young guns shine at the Aus Open, Mallory Swanson inks the largest NWSL football deal in history - $2 million over 5 years, Lauren Jackson looking on track for another olympics appearance. For the key story we’ll discuss DAZN’s huge move to remove the paywall for all live women's football coverage in the UK. Buy our kids book The A to Z of Who I Could Be, or book for adults GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT. www.thefemaleathl...
Jan 22, 2024•29 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - Donna Urquhart sets a new world record for longest polar run - 1300km, Sarah Gigante wins the Tour Down Under, and the Flames raise $$$ and awareness for breast care nurses. For the key story we’ll discuss the SponsorUnited report that predicts that US sports sponsorship revenue could potentially surpass US$8 billion in 2024. Buy our kids book The A to Z of Who I Could Be, or book for adults GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT....
Jan 15, 2024•28 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - Devastation for Sam Kerr and football fans around the world, the PWHL breaks multiple attendance records in it’s inaugural week, and Ellyse Perry is the first Aussie woman to play 300 international cricket games. For the key story we’ll discuss the game-changing broadcast deal between ESPN and the NCAA that recognises serious value in women’s college basketball. Buy our kids book The A to Z of Who I Could Be, or bo...
Jan 08, 2024•28 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - Snow mogul Jakara Anthony secures her fourth gold medal in five World Cup events, Netball Aus CEO Kelly Ryan steps down, and Jo Yapp is announced as the first female coach in a major Aussie football code. For the key story we’ll chat to Sophie Norris who created a documentary series about women in sport in Bathurst. They interviewed fifteen athletes from across seven different sports and got to hear the highs and l...
Dec 18, 2023•35 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - Annabel Sutherland's $364,000 payday in Indian cricket, GB’s shock exit from Olympic contention and Aussie 7s back up with a tournament win in Cape Town. For the key story we’ll discuss the growing list of accusations toward former Spanish football President Luis Rubiales. Buy our new kids book The A to Z of Who I Could Be, or book for adults GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT. www.thefemaleathleteproject.com/shop Get the wrap...
Dec 11, 2023•29 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - four medals in the snow! Brisbane Lions claim their second AFLW premiership, and the Aussie 7s are once again queens of the desert. For the key story we chat to ultramarathon runner Kellie Angel Buy our new kids book The A to Z of Who I Could Be, or book for adults GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT. www.thefemaleathleteproject.com/shop Get the wrap delivered into your inbox as a weekly newsletter! Subscribe here for the newsl...
Dec 04, 2023•40 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - Auckland set to get new A-League team, gymnast Georgia Godwin has a move named after her, and AOC set to spend 100k on air con for Paris games. For the key story we’ll discuss the ongoing pay dispute between Netball Australia and the players. Buy our new kids book The A to Z of Who I Could Be, or book for adults GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT. www.thefemaleathleteproject.com/shop Get the wrap delivered into your inbox as a...
Nov 27, 2023•35 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - The NRL has announced a 3-game State of Origin series for the first time in women’s history, Geelong upset reigning premiers Melbourne Demons to progress to the AFLW prelim finals, and mackenzie arnold’s jerseys are set to be for sale by Paris 2024! For the key story we’ll chat to Australian hockey player Kalindi Commerford about her recent experience with concussion, and why she’s so passionate about sharing her s...
Nov 20, 2023•32 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - The legendary Meg Lanning retires from international cricket, AFLW finals are heating up, and the Paramatildas claim victory in the IFCPF Asia-Oceania Championships. For the key story we’ll discuss the new collective bargaining agreement that could see top Matildas receiving up to $200K/year for national duties. Buy our new kids book The A to Z of Who I Could Be, or book for adults GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT. www.thefe...
Nov 13, 2023•33 min
We’ll be back next week with our women’s sports news podcast #thewrap, but in the meantime, check out this interview with World Rugby’s Director of Women’s Rugby, Sally Horrox. An incredibly insightful discussion around World Rugby’s intentional planning, investment and pathways to grow women’s rugby right across the world. Part of that approach includes the introduction of the new global competition, the WXV. Can we see the Wallaroos emulate the Matildas moment in the 2029 Women’s Rugby World C...
Nov 06, 2023•16 min
Run Antarctica is a world first, Guinness World Record attempt to complete the longest ultramarathon in a polar region in history . Donna Urquhart is an ultra-marathon runner and pain scientist who is about to attempt at Union Glacier Camp in Antarctica, the coldest, windiest and driest desert on earth, on 4th December 2023. The conditions will include sub-zero temperatures, winds of up to 100km/h. Donna is doing it for her life’s passion: showing other females what is possible for them, and emp...
Oct 30, 2023•16 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - The Aussie Steelers wheelchair rugby team win the world cup! Cayla George and the Las Vegas Aces win the WNBA championships, and Kaylee McKeown is the first EVER woman to hold all three backstroke world records. For the key story we’ll chat to Sydney Sirens and international representatives Ava Calabria Sarah Edney ice hockey players about their upcoming domestic season. Buy our new kids book The A to Z of Who I Co...
Oct 23, 2023•40 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - FOUR attendance records broken in the first round of the a-league, Lucy Charles-Barclay from England re-wrote history when she set a new course record at the first-ever women's-only Hawaii Ironman World Championship in Kona, and we take a deeper look at the netball negotiation breakdown. For the key story we’ll chat to Brisbane heat cricketer Mikayla Hinkley about the big bash season that kicks off this week, and h...
Oct 16, 2023•35 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - Newcastle knights go back to back! The giants are on the board (go the giants!), and the Aussies have started their summer with a 2-1 series win in the T20 international matches against the West Indies For the key story we’ll chat to wheelchair racer Christie Dawes who is attempting to qualify for her EIGHTH Paralympic games. Buy our new kids book The A to Z of Who I Could Be, or book for adults GIRLS DON’T PLAY SP...
Oct 09, 2023•33 min
This week, we are sharing with you an interview with Chloe Dalton, founder of The Female Athlete Project at the recent book launch event for GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT. TFAP legend and operations extraordinaire Bez interviews Chloe, to take a look into her life, sporting career, and to hear more about why she is so incredibly passionate about gender equality. Buy Chloe’s book GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT and the kids book The A to Z of Who I Could Be. www.thefemaleathleteproject.com/shop (http://www.thefe...
Oct 02, 2023•28 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - The paddle G.O.A.T Jess fox wins her TENTH individual world title, Gold Coast Titan’s coach Karyn Murphy will become the first female coach to lead a team in an NRLW grand final, and we take a look at the new AFL collective bargaining agreement. For the key story we’ll discuss Cricket NSW launch of multi-format cricket programs for women and girls across the state. Buy Chloe’s new book GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT. www.t...
Sep 25, 2023•27 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - Former world number one Simona Halep banned from tennis for four years, Ariarne Titmus shares her scary journey of finding tumours in her ovaries, and LInden Hall smashes her own Australian 1500m record in the diamond league. For the key story we’ll discuss new research by the Women’s Sport Trust showing that people in the UK are watching more women’s sport than ever before on TV. Buy Chloe’s new book GIRLS DON’T P...
Sep 18, 2023•33 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - Coco Gauff wins maiden Grand Slam title, knights dominated ladder-leaders Roosters, and coach Kim Mulkey signs the richest deal in women’s college basketball history, signing a new 10-year contract worth US $36 million. For the key story we’ll discuss netballer Maddy Proud’s article about concussion and it’s impacts on female athletes. Buy Chloe’s new book GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT. www.thefemaleathleteproject.com/sho...
Sep 11, 2023•34 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - 92,003 people show up to watch the nebraska cornhuskers volleyball team, Belinda Sharpe and Kasey Badger become the first females to officiate an NRL match under the single referee system, and The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has announced that the England cricket’s women’s players are to receive the same match fees as the men’s team For the key story we’ll discuss tennis icon Billie Jean King coming under...
Sep 04, 2023•28 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - Nina Kennedy shares gold in the pole vault, Spanish football president Luis Rubiales has been stood down following an unsolicited kiss of a player, and the Aussie team Sprint Kayak and Paracanoe team make history - topping the medal tally at the world champs. For the key story we’ll chat to Georgie Maynard, founder of True North Research, about the data surrounding fans’ emotional connection to some of our favourit...
Aug 28, 2023•34 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - Spain wins their first ever world cup, $200 million govt investment into women’s sport, and for the first time the men and women will be using the same balls at the US Open tennis tournament. For the key story we’ll discuss the Australian Wallaroos player statement calling out inequity in standards, pay and resourcing. Buy Chloe’s new book GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT. www.thefemaleathleteproject.com/shop Get the wrap de...
Aug 21, 2023•29 min
Helen Hardy - Lionesses superfan and owner of Foudys, a small business dedicated to women’s football - chatting all things FIFA Women's World Cup 2023. Buy Chloe’s new book GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT. www.thefemaleathleteproject.com/shop Get the wrap delivered into your inbox as a weekly newsletter! Subscribe here for the newsletter + don’t miss a merch drop. www.linktr.ee/thefemaleathleteproject Shop TFAP merch: https://www.thefemaleathleteproject.com/shop Find us on Instagram: @thefemaleathletepro...
Aug 21, 2023•15 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - The Tillies are out here changing the world, Hockeyroos and Stingers qualify for Paris, and the Aussies clink a few medals at the Cycling World Championships! For the key story we’ll chat to the head coach of the inaugural Australian Women’s Blind & Low Vision Cricket Team, Taylah Purton, as the team are currently competing in the International Blind Sports Federation World Games. Buy Chloe’s new book GIRLS DON...
Aug 14, 2023•32 min
After missing out on the 2018 Commonwealth Games team, New Zealand midcourter Gina Crampton made a triumphant return in 2019 when the Silver Ferns went on to win the Netball World Cup in Liverpool. She was anointed the Silver Ferns 28th captain in 2021 and led the Silver Ferns to a bronze medal in Birmingham at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. First coming to prominence in 2015, Crampton’s vast experience has made her a cornerstone of the Silver Ferns attack line. She lined up for her second World C...
Aug 10, 2023•29 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - The Diamonds are world champions! Google starts to correct the internet, and Diana Taurasi becomes the first WNBA player to score 10,000 points For the key story we’ll discuss the research demonstrating that males are earning up to 24 times more in sponsorship and endorsement than female athletes as well as 21 times more playing salary on average than women athletes. Pre-order Chloe’s new book GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPOR...
Aug 07, 2023•33 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - Demi Vollering wins her maiden Tour de France Femmes title, Australia beat USA in the swimming medal tally for first time since 1956 Olympics, and a huge 450 per cent attendance increase in the 2023 ashes compared to the total gate for the 2019 series. For the key story we’ll chat to NRLW player for the North Queensland Cowboys, Kirra Dibb, who was instrumental in the teams’ win over the Newcastle Knights on the we...
Jul 31, 2023•27 min
TFAP founder Chloe Dalton sits down to chat with pioneer of women’s football, Pat O’Connor, who was the captain of the first Australian women’s football team that travelled to compete in the Asia Cup in 1975.
Jul 27, 2023•12 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - World records tumble at the swimming in fukuoka, crowd records tumble at the football, and two aussie 13 year olds win X games gold! For the key story we’ll discuss the "The Value of You Can Be What You Can See" report looking into the gap in sponsorship for women’s elite sport. Pre-order Chloe’s new book GIRLS DON’T PLAY SPORT. www.linktr.ee/chloeedalton Get the wrap delivered into your inbox as a weekly newslette...
Jul 24, 2023•37 min
A weekly podcast covering women’s sports news. Taking a look around the grounds - Vondrousova becomes the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon women's singles title in the professional era, Sabrina Ionescu breaks WNBA and NBA records for most points in a 3-point shooting contest, and Australia retain the ashes. For the key story we’ll chat to Former Arsenal Academy player, Fran Hurndall, who is preparing for an epic 1000km journey, running from the Gold Coast to Sydney while dribbling a so...
Jul 17, 2023•29 min
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