Talking Title IX and College Sports

In this episode, we discuss how discredited ideas about college sport amateurism shaped the April 8, 2025 U.S. House Committee on the Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions hearing entitled The NLRB, Student-Athletes, and the Future of College Sports. We explore the implications of continuing to perpetuate the underlying assumptions and mythologies that have formed the basis for an explo...

In this episode, we go inside the athletic training room to examine more closely the impact of profit-motives on the decisions made regarding college athlete health and well-being and how athletes experience the training room environment. We will also be discussing the racial and gender dynamics that affect injured athletes, their perception of injury, and how injury affects their relationships with coaches, teammates, and sports m...

Few would dispute the fact that sport as it is organized in the United States and many places around the world is a gendered environment. Structured around a gender binary, the predominant structure of sport is sex segregated. As much as laws like Title IX are generally thought to foster equal access to sport for men and women, the very act of separating places a spotlight on difference. For women athletes developing in such a syst...

In today’s episode, we are talking about the exciting work being done by University of Louisville associate professor of sport management Meg Hancock and her colleagues, Nick Kopka and Ehren Green. They created The Pipeline Project, which is an expansive study of the state of women in intercollegiate athletic administration, documenting where progress has been made for women in athletic administration, points in the industry that ...

In this episode, we discuss the status of women in college coaching with Vanessa Fuchs, CEO of WeCOACH, an organization that is dedicated to recruiting, advancing, and retaining women coaches in all sports at all levels through year-round professional growth and leadership development programs.

Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

Guest: Vanessa Fuchs, CEO, WeCOACH

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In this episode, we talk about the critical role storytelling plays in creating narratives that affect decisions that impact women college athletes, how the public views and engages with women college athletes, and how women college athletes tell their own stories.

Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

Guest: Shannon Scovel is an assistant professor of journalism and media at the University of Tennessee with a research focus on sports media...

For those familiar with the history of college sport and higher education, athletics has played a key role in admission and enrollment efforts in colleges and universities since the late 1800s to the present. In the very early days when land grant institutions like LSU and private colleges like Stanford or Notre Dame were getting established, men’s sports programs became vehicles to attract new applicants and to create name brand r...

In this episode we have the wonderful opportunity to visit with Coach Becky Carlson, the head coach of women’s rugby at Quinnipiac University about an article she recently published on LinkedIn entitled “Flag Football: The Double Standard, the Money, and the Death of Non-Revenue Sports”. Coach Carlson has been the head coach of women’s rugby at Quinnipiac since its inception in 2011, building the program from the ground up and crea...

In this episode we’ll speak with Renee Carlineo (IC ‘07), who is director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation at Buffalo State University about her professional journey to the AD’s chair, how her early work as a strength and conditioning coach and lacrosse coach and back in sport psychology has advised her approach to leadership and management. We’ll also get into some details on how to develop an approach to Title IX compl...

In this episode we have the wonderful opportunity to speak with Dr. Stephen Gambescia who is a Professor, Health Services Administration & Director, Doctor of Health Science College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University. He recently published an article in the Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal entitled A Research Agenda for Combined Men and Women Sports Competition.

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Guest: Dr. Stephen Ga...

In this episode we learn about the powerful and affecting journey of Raisa Tolchinsky, a boxer and poet who delivers in her collection of poems, Glass Jaw, the complexities so many women boxers and women athletes encounter in a space where liberation and empowerment is often abused.

Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

Guest: Raisa Tolchinsky (Boxer and Poet, Author of Glass Jaw)

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In this episode we discuss the perceptions of women working in leadership roles in the sports industry, the experiences they have with the glass ceiling and glass cliff and the perceptions aspiring women professionals have of their prospects for becoming leaders in sport.

Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

Guest: Meg Hancock (Professor at University of Louisville)

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In this episode we discuss ongoing concern about women college athletes and mental health.

Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

Guest: Rick Eckstein (Professor of Sociology at Villanova University and Author of How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls’ Sports: The Pay-to-Play Pipeline)

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This episode focuses on initiatives college athlete departments can take to cultivate investment in women’s sports by reconnecting and celebrating the accomplishments of women athletes from previous eras with current women athletes. The University of Oregon’s Women in Flight serve as case examples of what can be accomplished by reframing promotional efforts and embracing past, present, and future generations of women college athlet...

In our interview with one of the most prolific women’s sports writers in the United States, we explore the amnesia and neglect sports writers often have about women’s sports history through the little known story of the National Women’s Football League, brought to light by sports writer Lyndsey D’Arcangelo and their co-author, Frankie De La Cretaz.

Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

Guest: Lyndsey D’Arcangelo (Sports Writer)

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In the Season 3 premiere of Talking Title IX and College Sports, we focus on steps women college athletes can take to advocate for their rights under Title IX within their own athletic departments.

Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky

Guest: Emlyn Patry (Graduate of Trinity College, Who Advocated for Equal Treatment for Women Athletes on Her Campus)

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In this episode, we are visiting with Molly Peters to talk about her work advocating for equal treatment for women athletes in the sport of cross country. At present, in 2023, men run distances between 8 to 10K and women run distances between 5-6 K. Why is this? Molly Peters is founder of Equal Distance and head coach at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont and is here to help us answer that question. For more information about the ...

In this episode, we are so fortunate to visit with Macaela MacKenzie, a journalist who writes about women and power. She covers women’s equality through the lens of sports, wellness, and the gender gap across industries. She was a senior editor at Glamour, and her work has been published in Elle, Self, Marie Claire, Forbes, and Bustle. In the summer of 2023, Macaela published a book entitled Money, Power, Respect: How Women in Spo...

Within athletic departments that operate under the umbrella of the NCAA, reports of sexual violence on the part of athletes; coaches; administrators; and donors raise a host of questions about factors that may contribute to cultures of violence and questions regarding Title IX compliance and accountability. To help us sort through some of this, I am pleased to welcome to the show Molly Harry, an assistant professor of sports manage...