Many Happy Miles: U.S. Rugby Star Naya Tapper

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Whether you’re a rugby fan or know very little about the sport, you’ll want to hear this chat with Naya Tapper, an influential athlete who’s changing the game in so many ways. A true star of the sport, Naya led Team USA to its very first Pan American Games gold medal in November, competed at the Tokyo Games and will return to the Olympics in Paris this summer. On this candid episode, Naya joins us from the U.S. Olympic Training Center to chat with co-hosts Dimity and Sarah WF on a variety of topics, including: how her background as a runner helps her shine on the pitch; rugby rules and lingo; diversity in the sport and debunking the stigmas attached to it; being a role model and how she gives back; her guest stint on Project Runway…and more! Know a kid who may want to follow in Naya’s footsteps? Head to USA Rugby for resources on youth and high school opportunities. And click here to learn more about the Naya Tapper Scholarship Program. And here’s the hiking program Dimity mentions in the episode. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Live a more empowered life: For 10% off your first month, go to betterhelp.com/amr Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by Better Help Therapy Online.
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0:05.0	therapy can get you there.
0:06.5	Visit BetterHelp.com slash AMR
0:09.5	today to get 10% off your first month. Welcome to Many Happy Miles, a podcast that celebrates all types of forward movement.
0:27.0	Whether it's a little Nordic skiing or maybe a spin around the ice rink with a waltz jump thrown in if you're feeling kind of frisky.
0:34.8	We're here to say yay to all of it. I'm Dimmody McDowell, co-founder of another mother
0:39.7	runner. And I'm Sarah Wasserner. And I'm Sarah Wasser Flynn and I have a question for you, Dimmity. Yeah. Did you ever play contact sports growing up as a kid? I mean basketball is basketball a contact sport? I guess it is isn't it? I think so. I think so. My short-lived very emphasis on short-lived basketball career. I think I
0:57.8	played in six and seventh grade and I got to say not for me I did not like people in my space. I didn't like trying to get into other people's space like the whole stealing the ball and really like, you know, getting big around them and trying to defend them like that was not my personality
1:14.7	I did not jive despite my height working for basketball everything else did not yeah I think we've
1:21.6	may have talked about this like how you were always encouraged to go play
1:24.8	basketball and you're like nope it wasn't for me yeah not all Paul people have to play
1:28.8	basketball exactly exactly did you play contact sports?
1:32.6	Oh, I tried.
1:33.6	I think as you know, as runners and maybe swimmers or rowers,
1:37.8	we all kind of get to that point because we tried everything else
1:41.3	and failed.
1:42.3	Then we ended up going to the non-contact sport.
1:45.0	So, I mean, I'm youngest of four,
1:47.0	so I just did whatever my sisters did, which was softball,
1:50.0	basketball.
1:52.0	I think I tried a little tennis. That's not contact sport though. Hand-eye
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