Keeping Track
by Evergreen Podcasts
Alysia Montano, Molly Huddle and Roisin McGettigan are three Olympians, from 2 countries, including 2 Moms and 1 current pro coming together to talk about the inspiring figures, important topics and interesting stories in women's sports. We care about the landscape and future of our sport of Track and Field and we want to create more media coverage of women's sports in general. We'll be interviewing inspiring athletes, and discussing topics and news in the track world and beyond. Thanks for Keeping Track with us!
Episodes
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Pregnancy, Running And HotTakes
Molly Catches up With Grayson Murphy about the twists and turns 2025 has taken and what she's looking ahead to. Check out Grayson's Substack here for more "HotTakes" ( thoughtful discussions really) and her Coaching and Paper company here: stats on our topic of online abuse of women athletes here
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Athlete Moms Who Breastfeed : Setting Records of Human Metabolism
We couldn't let National Breastfeeding month go by without a research spotlight, we hear from Dr. Nicole Danos. Dr. Danos talks about the limits of human metabolism being pushed during lactation, how the body may adapt to this, and how this affects an animal's (and woman’s) muscles and tendons.…
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A woman Built Training Group: Meridia
Don't forget to support Meridia at the virtual mile this weekend Aug 9! Register here-I'll race ya! https://www.movemint.cc/events/meridia-mile/register Colleen Quigley updates us on her training and racing and we hear all about her new Woman led training group and how it's breaking the mold and...
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Racing Through Breast Cancer
Marta Pen Frietas grew up in Portugal not knowing professional running was a valid dream- now she's an NCAA champion, National Champion, and 2 time Olympian. She takes us through her start in the sport (doing many events well-like 400 hurdles!) to her current day as a Brooks Beast where she is...
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Valery Tobias : Getting Through Tough Transitions
Keeping Track speaks with US 800m runner Valery Tobias about her start in the sport, her time on the team at the University of Texas, transitioning to professional Track and on making her first World Champs team !
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What Is Confidence? With Erika Kemp
I talk to Erika Kemp, who 6 weeks ago ran a big PB with her 2:22 runner up finish at the Houston Marathon. We tried to pivot from race talk since it’s been re-hashed on many a pod so for those links check out our episode page at www.keeping-track.com (and sign up for the email list to stay up to...
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Who Is The Female Sports Fan?
We're realizing stereotypical sports fandom is actually male sports fandom- but the numbers are in, and they say the ladies are here and they love sports too! In fact Wasserman Collectives newest data set shows that over 70% of women surveyed from 30 countries consider themselves an avid sports...
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Navigating Athlete Retirement
Aisha Praught-Leer is an Olympian, the 2018 Commonwealth Games Steeplechase Champion, and has held Jamaican records from the 1500m to the 5000m....but some of her favorite moments in sport are from the parts you never got to see! Molly and Aisha also get into how she decided to structure her...
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Olympic Athletes and Motherhood
Alysia and Molly talk about some of the &Mother initiatives and beyond in how to support Mother Athletes at the Olympics and Paralympic Games. "What we want for female athletes is to allow them to be holistically themselves....this is what I tell my daughter. You have an opportunity to be…
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Media, Health and Women's Sports
Dr. Jessica Gall Myrick was a 3 time all American distance runner while at Indiana University and went on to become a social scientist and full professor at Penn State University. We talk about her work studying Media Psychology and health and given her running background we dive into how it...
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The Mother's Lane: Molly And Ro Live In Providence!
Molly and Ro host a group run in Providence RI to support Alysia's &Mother Mom Forward 5k fundraiser. They held a live podcast afterward at Marathon Sports discussing the intersection of running, career and motherhood.
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Book Launch! All In Stride with Johanna Garton and Elvin Kibet
Buy All in Stride Here!We are speaking about the new book All In Stride by author Johanna Garton featuring the intertwining running journeys of Shadrack Kipchirchir and his wife Elvin Kibet as they go from young kids in Kenya to sports careers in the US NCAA system and US Army. Elvin has joined…
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The Mother's Lane with Makenna Myler
Molly and Alysia introduce Keeping Track X &Mother's newest partnership: The Mother's Lane; a series keeping up with athlete moms . We're going deep on the topics around the intersection of motherhood and sport with some of the amazing Mom's on the track, roads, sport leadership spaces and…
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Marathon Trials Spotlight: Sergeant Elvin Kibet!
Our final installment of the Marathon Team nTrials spotlight is Seargent Elvin KibetElvin was a 6 time All American while at the University of Arizona graduating in 2015 -you can read more about her story and her childhood in Iten Kenya in the book All In Stride by Johanna Garton which comes out...
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Marathon Trials Spotlight: Fiona O'Keeffe !
Our second installment in our miniseries of spotlights around the women of the 2024 USA Olympic Team Trials Marathon is Fiona O’Keeffe.As a 6 time all American at Stanford graduating in 2020 Fiona got to chase some fast women on her own team in the middle distance events. She steps up to the...
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Marathon Trials Spotlight: Erika Kemp!
In Erika's debut marathon this past spring she became the fastest American Born Black Woman Marathoner, she's also a two time USA road Champion and fresh off a big half marathon PB.
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Live With Canadian Olympian Malindi Elmore
Alysia and Molly have a conversation with Canadian Olympian (2004 and 2021!) and former record holder Malindi Elmore on her journey in the sport: takeing a step back during a burned out phase, exploring other sports and kinds of training, becoming a Mother and finding herself in a while new event...
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Tori Franklin Has Announcements!
We last spoke to Tori in early 2022 and a lot has happened since! She is publishing her book You Anthem, building a non-profit and heading to the World Championships in Hungary as the US Champion and 2022 World Championship bronze medalist. Listen in on what's going on off the track and how she...
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Justine Fédronic : Stepping Into The Other side Of The Sport
Be an Underbird with Oiselle!
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Athlete Mental Health with Roisin McGettigan-Dumas
Molly interviews Ro about athlete Mental Health. Roisin McGettigan-Dumas is of course our Co-Host, but also: a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (and 2012 Olympian in Track and Field!) and also coaches athletes on sport performance psychology. We chat about the information Ro Learned from the…
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Angel City Elite's Grace Gonzales
Check out their website for inquiries on joining or supporting!Social media announces events: @angelcityeliteAngel City Elite is a women's running group based in the Los Angelese area. Their athletes have competed at the US Olympic Trials Marathon and other track and road races around the…
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Women Of Liberty Athletic Club
Liberty AC is the oldest all women’s track club in the country, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. I speak to president of the board Viki Bok and official- unofficial team historian Alda Cossi (both women are competitive members of the masters running scene).Liberty has run through the...
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Catching Up With Julia Lucas on Coaching
Julia Lucas was a multi time All American at North Carolina State and Professional Distance runner for 8 years. She talks about how that's informed her own coaching approach and she tells us about the 2 NYC groups she is guiding and some other stops along the way on her coaching journey:Julia is...
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Creating Community With TrailBlazHers Run Co
Molly Talks to co founder Abeo Powder and Run LeadHer Alia Qatarneh about Boston Based women's running group TrailBlazHers Run co . They touch on topics like their big event -The Bra Run- their weekly events and other activations and how they are crearing a welcoming space for women to enter the...
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Catching Up With Betsy Saina
Molly will also link the resources mentioned in the National Women and Girls In Sport Day recap on www.keeping-track.com , but here is more info onVaughn Childcare Fund for college MothersBooks: Good For A GirlHow She Did ItSites:Voice In Sport online mentorship program for girlsWomens Sports...
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Emily Sisson- 2:18!
Ro and I chat with friend of the pod Emily Sisson a few days after her amazing second place, 2:18:29 American Record run in the marathon-only her third crack at the distance, and talk about the build up, the race, recovery from covid, and how she’s grown as an athlete with her mental approach...
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Alison Mariella Dèsir's New Book Running While Black
Alison Mariella Dèsir Author of Running While Black : Finding Freedom In A Sport That Wasn’t Built For UsMolly and Alysia speak with Alison about the process of writing her book, who she hopes reads it, how she hopes it affects the running industry, her love of running and her approach to the...
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Women in Coaching Series: Hannah Chappell-Dick of Brown University
Grab your 80$ credit at The FeedLink-Hannah’s website: Schooloftrack.org for aspiring track and field coachesHannah Chappel-Dick Brown University Womens Middle Distance and Cross Country CoachOn being brought on for her first coaching position: "That's why, as a coach now I try to do as much...
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The First Female Middle Eastern Winter and Summer Olympian: Chirine Njeim
Thanks again to the Feed.com for supporting content this month! They also want to give you a gift: use this landing page to claim $80 of Feed credit today! Molly Speaks with Olympic Alpine Skiier and Marathon Chirine Njeim about her start in skiiing, how moving to Chicago inspired her love of...
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Dena Evans: Her Journey in NCAA and High Performance Coaching
We Speak With Dena Evans formerly of the National Championship Stanford XC/T&F Program, Currently coaching with Peninsula Distance and USATF TeamsDena speaks about challenges faced by coaches, especially women in the NCAA who also have families. She also talks about the need to expand our hiring...
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The Winning Ways of Women Coaches with Dr. Cecile Reynaud
We speak with Dr. Cecile Reynaud: long tenured women’s volleyball coach and professor in Sport Management at FSU about her recent book speaking to some of the most successful women in coaching across the NCAA and professional teams and about the state of women in coaching today : how are the...
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Own Your Story Panel Discussion with Alysia at REI x She Is Beautiful 5k/10k
This is a prerecorded episode that occurred in March at the REI /she Is Beautiful event which included a 5k and 10k run and a panel discussion in Santa Cruz from some amazing women in sport: Alysia moderated the discussion called “Own Your Story” with athelte author and advocate Alison Desir…
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Catching Up With Kim Smith
The Catchup:Link to pre-order the book Arrival StoriesAlysia’s Marathon and Every Mother Counts fundraising page!&mother and EveryMotherCounts have partneredThey raised $200,000 through the marathon alone for a new ambulance at a secondary all girls school in the Kilimanjaro regionLink &Mother…
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Tori Franklin: Jumping, Writing and More
We talk to Team USA Triple Jumper and and 2 time American Record Holder Tori Franklin about her start in the sport, her plans for the future and all she's doing outside of it to be a whole person. We drop a lot of links in the intro:Support Alysia's Marathon Fundraising for Every Mother...
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Sara Slattery And Molly Give A Glimpse Inside The How She Did It Book
How She Did It Book Talk:HSDI website Co Authors Sara Slattery and Molly talk with Ro about who and what's in their book due out March 8th. Pre order today to get it on International Women's Day!Todays topics: Should you specialize in sport early to be the best?Sharing interesting chaptersWhat...
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Live with Alysia and Shannon Woods , On Diversity Equity And Inclusion In The Running And Outdoor Industries
Today we are sharing the second episode Alysia recorded live from TRE earlier in the month as she spoke with Shannon Woods, who is currently the senior manager of DEI at Brooks Running among other things. Shannon tells us how her own upbringing as a mixed race woman and the experiences of both...
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Viola Cheptoo Lagat on the NYC Marathon and Ending Gendered Violence in Kenya
Today we have a surprise guest hostess (Marielle Hall!) as we talk to Viola Lagat, also known as Viola Cheptoo Lagat, who you may know as recent second place woman at the 2021 NYC Marathon (and maybe you’ve heard of one of her many talented runner siblings, Bernard Lagat?)She takes us through her...
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Live With Alexi Pappas & Alysia At The Running Event
Alysia talks to Alexi Pappas live at the 2021 TRE expo in Austin, Texas.
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Mary Ngugi and the Women's Athletic Alliance : A Female Empowerment Movement In East Africa
We talk to Mary Wacera Ngugi, who most recently finished 3rd at the 2021 Boston Marathon, about her start in the sport, how Kenyan camp systems work and her journey to the marathon. You may be surprised to hear who is coaching her now! We also talk to Mary about her brave and impactful efforts to...
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Kori Carter and Natasha Hastings Talk TrackGirl Summer and More
Ro and I do a 25 min catch up on fall action (there has been a lot of it!) so feel free to fastforward to the GOOD STUFF aka Kori Carter and Natasha Hastings talking through some of the struggles they had this past year, what helped them through and tips for anyone dealing with similar things…
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Celebrating Patti Dillon At The Boston Marathon
Fall Marathons are back! The 125th running of the Boston Marathon is being held on Indiginous People's Day, October 11th, in Massachusetts. We talk to one of the best road runners in American History, Patti Dillon, about her career, being the fastest Native runner in history and how she is…
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Muffet McGraw on Hear Her Sports Episode Swap!
We're doing our second episode swap of the season-this time hilighting Hear Her Sports with Elizabeth Emery. Elizabeth was a professional cyclist in the 90's and now is on the other side of the game as a content creator with Hear Her Sports podcast, "Hear Her Sports is the podcast where female...
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How Mary Cain Is Changing The Game
Molly Ro and Alysia talk to prep phenom Mary Cain about the struggles and abuses she faced as a young track star under now banned (by USADA and Safe Sport) coach Alberto Salazar. Mary tells us how this journey inspired her to start a unique women's track club called Atalanta, what her future...
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Conversing With 800m Runner Kate Grace
Friend of the Podcast Kate Grace is back to chat about how she's found her power and found herself leading the Diamond League and setting PR's this season after narrowly missing the 202one US Olympic Team. Kate tells us how she went from a well rounded Yale Student -athlete to a focused pro, and…
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Wadeline Jonathas: An Olympian Telling Her Story
Ro and Molly talk with newly minted 400m Olympian and 2019 World Champion 4th place finisher Wadeline Jonathas.We spoke about her Covid Year, graduating from University of South Carolina, and insights on media coverage and storytelling of professional athletes. Also check out our blog for all the...
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Amy Hastings Cragg: Racing, Retirement and Coaching
“For every high that I’ve had like that there has been an equal low- I think every runner and every person experiences this- but really you have to weather the storm. You have to get through that bad mile because a good one is coming up- you just have to have faith that it’s going to happen”-Amy...
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Bonus Episode: Alysia And Molly Talk Anti-Doping
Molly and Alysia talk anti-doping. We’re speaking on doping cases like Shelby Houlihan’s recent case where accidental contamination is named as the cause. How are the many cases like these in the USA alone over the last few years potentially affecting clean athletes and the progress toward...
About this show
Alysia Montano, Molly Huddle and Roisin McGettigan are three Olympians, from 2 countries, including 2 Moms and 1 current pro coming together to talk about the inspiring figures, important topics and interesting stories in women's sports. We care about the landscape and future of our sport of Track and Field and we want to create more media coverage of women's sports in general. We'll be interviewing inspiring athletes, and discussing topics and news in the track world and beyond. Thanks for Keeping Track with us!
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