Emily Engel-Natzke on breaking barriers and joining the Hershey Bears
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
NBC Sports Washington
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The Hershey Bears new video coach Emily Engel-Natzke joins the podcast this week to discuss her new role with the Chocolate and White and what it means to her to be the first female coach in the Capitals organization. She talks to Alexa Shaw about her journey in hockey and leaves future generations of hockey coaches with excellent advice to get where they want to go in their careers.
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| 0:00.0 | His story! |
| 0:05.0 | It's a spectacular history making continues. |
| 0:10.0 | It's not a dream. |
| 0:12.0 | It's not a desert barrage. |
| 0:14.0 | It's Lord Stanley and he is coming to Washington. |
| 0:25.6 | On this week's Capitol's Talk podcast, we talked to Emily Engelnatsky. |
| 0:27.6 | She was hired by the Hershey Bears to be their video coach. |
| 0:32.1 | She is a trailblazer, and Alexa Shodd joins us because she had the conversation. |
| 0:36.5 | So fortunately, we're going to get a real insight into what it was like to have the conversation with Emily. |
| 0:37.6 | And of course, what it means for the have the conversation with Emily and, of course, |
| 0:42.7 | what it means for the NHL, for women in sports and the Capitals organization. All of that coming up next on the Capitals Talk podcast. We've had a lot of milestones when it comes to women |
| 0:49.6 | in sports, certainly this year, and say the last couple of years, but we're really starting to see |
| 0:53.3 | a lot of momentum when it comes to that. Alexa Shaw with me here, Emily Engel-Natsky, who is now the Hershey Bear's new video coach. And you got a chance to talk to her. I mentioned a little bit sort of, you know, the intro to this podcast and what she's done. It's certainly really historic in terms of the position that she has. And it's cool to Alexa, |
| 1:10.9 | because this is like another one of those examples of more and more women starting to be involved |
| 1:15.8 | in more important positions in sports. Exactly. We saw a female kicker in the college game. |
| 1:20.5 | Recently, we've seen referees. We've seen coaches. And then Emily, she's the first female coach |
| 1:24.4 | in the Washington Capitals organization. And I chatted with her about what it was |
| 1:28.3 | like landing this dream job. I also wanted to know her journey to this point because you know, Nick, |
| 1:32.9 | there takes a lot of hard work before you get to that dream job that a lot of people think, oh, |
| 1:37.0 | how did you get there? So we talked about that. And also her journey in the sports world. She loved |
| 1:42.1 | hockey growing up, played a little bit in |
| 1:44.3 | college doing the club game, and then got involved in sports on the other side of things in |
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