Sport by Experts with Matt Webber
by Bond University Podcasts
Hosted by broadcaster Matt Webber, Sport by Experts taps into the rich vein of sporting knowledge and experience that exists at Bond University. Bond is justifiably proud of its enviable sporting tradition. Students excel in across a wide range of elite sports and the university has developed a significant reputation across four pillars of elite sporting endeavour - netball, rugby union, AFL and swimming. Bond's health, psychology, sports business, sports law and sports science academics and researchers are world leading. Add all this up, and there's always plenty to talk about.
Episodes
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Kelsey Francis - sport's unexpected twists and turns.
In the latest episode of Sport by Experts, host Matt Webber introduces you to Kelsey Francis. Like many Australian kids, Kelsey grew up playing just about every sport she could. When she discovered rugby at 16, she thought she'd found 'the one'. But a serious head injury from a tackle gone wrong...
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Fact from fiction - fuelling female athletes. Featuring Myria Cano-Hall (E5)
A few weeks back our national broadcaster - the ABC - released results from its ELITE ATHLETES IN AUSTRALIAN WOMENS SPORT SURVEY . Earlier the ABC had asked 152 current or recently retired elite athletes across 47 sports about their views on a range of topics including earnings, discrimination,...
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Broomsticks and stones with the Curling Professor (E4)
The curling is unfurling at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games and things are getting frosty! Canadian team member Marc Kennedy made headlines after he unleashed an almighty spray in the direction of Swedish opponents who’d accused him of cheating by ‘double-touching’ the stone after it had...
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Bonnie Hancock - lessons from the long way around (E3)
In 2022, Bonnie Hancock circumnavigated Australia on an ocean kayak. 27,000 kilometres. 254 days. Bonnie’s gruelling adventure is not only an extraordinary insight into human endurance, steely resilience and unflinching determination, but also a fascinating study into the magnetic allure of...
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How a Bond University mathematician helped take rain out of the cricketing equation (w/ Pr Steve Stern)
Steve Stern is a Professor of Data Science at Bond University - and the man whose maths literally decides what a cricket team needs to chase when the rain rolls in. Englishmen Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis had already cooked up a workable method but after Stern politely suggested a few tweaks…
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A season like no other with Andy Lovell and Bec Stower (E1)
What a winter season it was... Our men's Premier Rugby team enjoyed grand final success for the first time ever when they pipped Brothers in a thriller. A fourth consecutive premiership for our rampant Premier Women's rugby squad. Our men's AFL side prevailed in their decider in extra time. And…
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About this show
Hosted by broadcaster Matt Webber, Sport by Experts taps into the rich vein of sporting knowledge and experience that exists at Bond University. Bond is justifiably proud of its enviable sporting tradition. Students excel in across a wide range of elite sports and the university has developed a significant reputation across four pillars of elite sporting endeavour - netball, rugby union, AFL and swimming. Bond's health, psychology, sports business, sports law and sports science academics and researchers are world leading. Add all this up, and there's always plenty to talk about.
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