#wegotgoals

We're highlighting episodes of our podcast #WeGotGoals this month that taught us something or stayed with us for one reason or another. I spent my life watching women break into sports — but so has anyone born after 1972 when Title IX passed. In 1995 at 10-years-old, I saw the first women's hockey team in my puck-worshiping Minnesota town and vividly remember the town's debate around girls playing the sport. In 1997, women played basketball professionally with the creation of the WNBA. And with this, women fought be a part of sports media — a fight to get coverage and a fight to get airtime as female sports reporters. It never really felt like my fight until I started to meet the women who earned their places within sports — either competing or reporting on them. One woman of particular impact is Sarah Spain who we spoke with on episode 11 o. She's effortlessly hilarious, dazzlingly professional, a natural athlete, a human sports statistics bible, and she's not afraid to take a stand. And damn it if she didn'