Hilary Knight: Team USA Hockey Player & Activist

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

"I knew what we were fighting for was way bigger than us...and transcended our sport." Hilary Knight is the top women's hockey player on the planet. She's a multiple-time Olympian, 7-time gold medal winner of the Ice Hockey World Championships, all-time career point scorer and 2-time National Champion at Wisconsin. She has sponsorship deals with Nike, Red Bull, Visa, GoPro, and more. She's even practiced with the NHL's Anaheim Ducks, telling us "cracking a roster spot is next on the list." As impressive as she is on the ice, she's also highly marketable. However, her most impressive quality is her cumulating approach to impacting women's sports and giving back to the next generation of female athletes. In 2016, Knight and her teammates protested USA Hockey, demanding an equal compensation, accommodation, and marketing allocation to their male counterparts. They threatened to hold out of the 2016 Ice Hockey World Championships and the subsequent Olympic Games if they weren't treated equitably. Find out what happened next on this week's episode. I’m your host Paul Rabil and welcome to “Suiting Up Podcast,” a show where I delve into the stories of some of today’s leading athletes, entrepreneurs, and entertainers, interviewing them and unpacking the psychology of their success.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I knew what we were fighting for was way bigger than us specifically and I also knew that it
0:07.6	transcended our sport and it was I mean it's 2017 it shouldn't be a topic but it is a
0:12.0	topic right now and equal pay and equitable support for us
0:15.7	Welcome to sitting up podcast everyone. I'm your host Paul Rabel and today our guest
0:22.1	I'm gonna start by reading off her accolades.
0:25.0	At Wisconsin she was a two-time national champion, a four-time frozen four attendee.
0:29.8	She leads all players in history with career points of 262 and she did so by
0:34.9	missing an entire season that was 0-9 and 10 when she joined team USA and
0:39.2	sochy for the Olympics. She played the Olympics in 2010 and 2014, silver-metalled in both in 2010.
0:45.8	She was the youngest player on either the men's or women's hockey teams.
0:49.0	And she also did so by finishing third in total points. So there's that. She did a seven
0:55.7	time gold medalist, a two time silver medalist in the ice hockey world
0:59.0	championships which are an annual event and she's been a two-time MVP of those games.
1:04.3	That's what I'm talking about.
1:06.6	Hillary Knight is arguably the world's best women's hockey player on the planet.
1:11.2	She's sponsored by Nike and Red Bull, Go Pro, Visa, Chabani, and Deloitte.
1:16.7	Impressive roster.
1:17.9	She's even practiced with the NHL's Anaheim Ducks.
1:21.5	Now, most impressive about Hillary. It's what she's done off the ice. She and her
1:25.8	teammates just last year ignited change amongst women in sports, protested and lobbied against
1:31.0	USA hockey for equal compensation, accommodations, promotion,
1:35.2	pretty much overall rights.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paul Rabil, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Paul Rabil and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.