Two Women Who Give a Puck
This podcast is hosted by Sarah and Tera, two former college hockey players who have now found themselves coaching their children in their local youth hockey association in Minnesota. Within the MN youth hockey world, they have experienced some of the same struggles they experienced while playing on the forefront of women’s hockey. They started this podcast to highlight the experiences of females in hockey, coaches and players. As well as to provide tangible actions on how it can be improved.
Episodes
Tera and I are joined by Ashley Holmes, the Assistant Coach in Chief for Female Coach Development in the Minnesota District (that’s a mouth full!!).
Ashley shares her story of growing up playing hockey in the Alexandria area, how that led to playing at the University of North Dakota and then on to coaching.
An important part of her coaching journey is that she was ASKED to coach a 12U hockey team. Without that invitation, she is ...
Tera and Sarah sit down with Alicia Pelton, the Program Director for Coaching HER from the Tucker Center, a research center at the University of Minnesota that researches girls and women in sport.
Coaching HER is a coaching resource that helps sport coaches of girls challenge the status quo and the taken-for-granted assumptions of what it means to coach girls. We are helping coaches minimize gender inequalities and to coach differ...
AUDIO WARNING - some of the audio is a little rocky!! Good ol' technology... It doesn't always cooperate.......!
On this episode Tera and Sarah chat with Topher Scott from The Hockey Think Tank about the value of community based hockey, for everyone, and especially for female hockey players. The less accessible hockey becomes, the fewer females there will be in the sport.
Topher’s mission is to get people to recognize the importa...
In this episode Tera and Sarah discuss all the ways female coaches can provide value even if they never played hockey.
They discuss the many aspects of coaching that have NOTHING to do with the Xs and Os of the game.
From helping players overcome adversity, to teaching them how to be good teammates, to holding them accountable, ALL of these are INCREDIBLY valuable. AND none of them require hockey knowledge to teach.
They r...
In this episode, Tera and Sarah discuss the common response they receive when sharing their experiences with males in the hockey world, which is “It happens to guys too”.
Although this statement is true, Tera and Sarah discuss how it feels very dismissive and it glosses over the reality of females having different experiences in hockey than males do.
Even if similar things happen to men, the way women experience certain issue...
Kris Wing is building a legacy, a beautiful and bright spiderweb, of positive energy, inclusiveness and an integrated approach to supporting ALL coaches within the world of USA hockey that she hopes will live on indefinitely.
She is the USA Hockey Coach in Chief for Female Development, which means she is a part of USA hockey's coach education program. She is the first female to have a Coach in Chief role within USA Hockey. Her ro...
Sarah shares her hockey experience. From growing up in Minnesota skating on the ponds, to youth hockey, high school hockey, college hockey and WHAM hockey (women's recreational hockey). She shares her love for the game as well as the challenges she faced when she started coaching her daughter.
Tera shares her hockey story from playing hockey with the neighborhood kids on the outdoor rink, to being the only girl on a boys team, to joining the girls and playing with them in youth, high school and college.
She also shares what her experiences in hockey taught her about life and feeling confident in situations where she is different. Highlighting the importance of the non-sport aspects we players learn while participating.
Sarah and Tera are doing a thing, they're starting a podcast because they are Two Women Who Give a Puck!
Through this podcast experience they will highlight the experiences of female coaches and players in hockey, as well as provide tangible ways to create positive changes.
They are here to reminder women that they belong in hockey and deserve to be a part of the greatest game in the world.
As well as encourage all of us to invite ...
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