“Covering Women’s Soccer” with Senior Writer for The Athletic Meg Linehan | Episode 12
The RE—CAP Show
RE—INC
5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Tobin and Christen welcome one of the most impactful writers in sports, and the women’s game, Meg Linehan. In this episode, they discuss Christen’s past few months getting back on the pitch and the trademark goal she scored this past weekend. What were some of the unexpected things she experienced in her return to the pitch this season and what are some changes in how she views her role in the sport at this stage in her career? Then, they sit down with senior writer for The Athletic, Meg Linehan, for an insightful conversation on her position as a leading voice covering the USWNT and the NWSL. In their conversation they discuss her introduction to journalism covering an indie band, how the 99ers inspired her, her love of the community in the women’s game and the powerful article that she wrote in 2021 which changed the league forever. Plus, a Money Matters conversation about Meg’s financial advice to future journalists brought to you by @Ally and of course, Community Questions!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the recap. On today's episode we will be talking about Kristen's recovery journey, |
| 0:05.8 | her first goal back, and we'll be joined by senior writer for the athletic, Meg Linahan. |
| 0:12.0 | If you like what we're doing here on the recap show, please like, rate, and |
| 0:15.7 | subscribe to YouTube and wherever you get your podcast. Now let's get into the Daily Discussion. Yay! |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome back to the Recap Show. |
| 0:31.0 | Here we are with the Daily Discussion. what shall we talk about Tobin how |
| 0:36.1 | about you I love talking about it's so true it so true, it's embarrassing. Welcome back to the NWSL Kristen Press. |
| 0:47.0 | I've been back. |
| 0:50.0 | Re-imaginers have been on a journey with you in your recovery journey, your healing journey, all of these journeys, |
| 0:58.0 | and you had a big milestone, what was it a couple days ago, and you scored your first goal back in |
| 1:08.0 | Chris and Press fashion, which was pretty cool, because there's a thousand ways that you can score a goal like it could just like randomly |
| 1:14.4 | hit off your chin pad and can't believe I just said chin pad and go in and they |
| 1:20.5 | love when you accidentally say shin pad. |
| 1:22.6 | And they all count the same, but I think, you know, |
| 1:28.8 | not in your mind, that's for sure. |
| 1:31.0 | But in the stat book they do. But I just want to say it was incredible to watch you score and you did say that you know everybody else was counting kind of the days to your like |
| 1:44.4 | return to the pitch but for you kind of like Kristen Press isn't fully back |
| 1:48.9 | until she scores a goal. Well thank you. I will say that at the very beginning of this year, and I think at this |
| 1:58.0 | point it's even hard to get back there, but I'm four surgeries deep and I'm really coming to terms with the reality that I might never play soccer again. |
| 2:08.0 | And it's January 1st and I made a lot of radical changes in my life on January 1st. |
| 2:15.0 | And it all started with a vision board. |
| 2:18.0 | And on that vision board, ladies and gentlemen, |
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