Create Your Shot: Kristen Lappas

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

Sports, Underdog Sports, The Underdog, Basketball, Nba, -- None --, Create Your Shot

4.9 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Tyler and Smallz talk to Kristen Lappas of ESPN. Kristen is an Emmy award-winning producer on SC Featured after having spent the last six years working for College Gameday. A true shot creator, Kristen takes the guys behind the scenes at the World Wide Leader and talks about her rise at ESPN, her relationships with on-air talent, College Gameday traditions and what it's like to be a storyteller. 03:10: Tyler and Smallz Intro 10:05: Welcome Kristen 11:00: Kristen's past jobs at ESPN 12:08: Kristen's ESPN journey 14:00: Why Kristen wanted to get on Gameday and how she did it 16:47: The grind of media/coaching 18:20: Never looking at the clock during a shift at ESPN 18:55: Confidence in speaking to ESPN higher-ups and famous on-air talent 20:40: Young people having confidence in pitching ideas 22:12: Interacting with athletes at ESPN 22:53: Athletes transitioning to being in-front of the camera and relying on producers 24:30: TRACKBACK SMALLZ: Kristen growing up in a basketball family 26:18: Sports are the best stories, where Kristen's curiosity came from 27:32: What goes into producing a feature 28:50: Cultivating relationships for stories 31:45: Kristen's process when doing a feature with Tom Rinaldi 33:04: Doing the Arthur feature in Sweden 36:13: Finishing a feature after shooting 37:29: The ease of working with talent with Tom Rinaldi 39:58: Tom Rinaldi: The most interesting man in the world 41:57: Being a woman in media and growing in her role of being in charge 44:49: A moment in her career that changed how she managed people 49:30: The rise of social media and digital media 52:09: Kristen's role models 53:45: Kristen's career goals 57:20: Desean Jackson's ESPY's tweet 59:10: Lee Corso on College Gameday 1:02:10: Can Lee Corso get an elephant on College Gameday? 1:03:18: Is Smallz going to be Lee Corso? 1:03:30: City Review: Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 1:04:56: Tailgating on Shay Field 1:07:00: Tyler is bitter about Tennessee-Georgia 1:08:24: 10 Touches 1:08:50: Funniest on-air talent at ESPN 1:09:43: Traveling to Katmandu, Nepal 1:10:22: Favorite book 1:10:55: Favorite off-day activity 1:11:25: Kristen's Oscar Pick 1:12:09: What would you do if you weren't in sports 1:13:10: Craziest fan's in the country 1:13:39: South Carolina football fans > Clemson football fans 1:14:15: Best college gameday sign 1:15:10: Pre-show ritual 1:15:48: Best and Worst thing about living in NYC 1:16:25: Best food in the ESPN cafeteria 1:17:22: Best advice Kristen has ever received 1:19:10: Face-to-face with 19-year-old self

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0:00.0	The following podcast is part of the Underdog Sports Podcasting Network.
0:09.8	For a full list of our shows, as well as breaking sports news and engaging feature stories,
0:15.5	visit us at www.theunderdogsports.com.
0:20.5	Welcome to the fourth episode of Create Your Shot.
0:31.5	This is actually the first Tuesday episode.
0:34.3	Smalls and I are going to be on Tuesday mornings from now on.
0:37.4	This week, Smalls and I talked to Kristen Lapis, Emmy Award-winning feature producer at ESPN.
0:43.1	Kristen had worked on college game day on the football side, possibly the most recognizable
0:46.9	show outside of sports center on the entire network, but now she is working for SC Featured.
0:52.7	So she's produced features that you guys have probably all seen on sports center over
0:57.3	the last couple of years.
0:59.0	Kristen is from a sports family.
1:01.0	Her father is Steve Lapis, the former head basketball coach at Villanova, UMass, and Manhattan.
1:07.9	Her brother Pete is an assistant at Fairleigh Dickinson University in T-neck, New Jersey.
1:13.0	So we've talked Kristen a little bit about how her sports background prepared her to work
1:16.8	at ESPN.
1:18.3	We also talked to her about being a woman in the media.
1:20.9	We talk about her favorite on-air personalities.
1:23.7	It really gets fun towards the middle of the end of the podcast.
1:26.7	I think the best part is here in Kristen's passion about telling stories and finding
1:31.0	out kind of those things that people don't know and maybe they should know about sports.
1:36.4	This was obviously very different.
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