Riley Gaines - Former UK All-American swimmer on swimming against the current and growing in Christ
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Riley Gaines is a former UK All-American swimmer who is now an activist, podcast host and author. Her new book “Swimming Against the Current” released May 21, 2024
Today on the podcast, Riley Gaines discusses her journey of faith and the importance of keeping Jesus at the center of her life. She also shares her experience competing against a biological male transgender athlete at Kentucky as well as the fear and intimidation tactics used to silence her speaking out. Gaines also shares how she’s grown in her faith during this time of being thrusted into the spotlight.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, today on Sports Spectrum, we're going in a direction we don't normally go on this show. |
| 0:05.3 | And it's not really meant to be political, but we're going in a direction that I usually |
| 0:10.5 | try to avoid. I'm not afraid to tackle tough topics on this show. But today, we're going to have |
| 0:16.8 | a conversation with Riley Games. And Riley has been in many ways thrusted into the spotlight |
| 0:22.6 | the last couple years. She's a University of Kentucky, former University of Kentucky All-American |
| 0:28.2 | swimmer in 2022 while she was swimming in the 200-yard NCAA freestyle championship. |
| 0:35.0 | She tied for fifth place with University of Pennsylvania swimmer |
| 0:38.0 | Leah Thomas, who was the first openly trans woman champion in the NCAA women's division |
| 0:43.7 | after winning the 500-yard freestyle. And that brought to the attention of trans women |
| 0:50.1 | competing against women in sports. |
| 0:55.3 | And basically biological males who are trans women competing against women in sports |
| 1:01.6 | competition. |
| 1:02.2 | And it's become this hot topic that has caused so much division, I think, sadly, because |
| 1:08.8 | it shouldn't. |
| 1:09.4 | It's a common sense issue to me personally. |
| 1:11.9 | And it's been one that's been thrusted in the political landscape as well. And I have a lot of |
| 1:17.8 | strong opinions that I'm going to refrain from sharing all of them here today on the podcast. |
| 1:22.5 | I'm happy to have discussions with any of you if you'd like to email me or just reach out to me about it. But I thought it |
| 1:29.1 | was important to talk to Riley Gaines. Riley is a follower of Jesus. She is a very high level |
| 1:34.8 | athlete as a swimmer at Kentucky. And now she's been thrusted into the spotlight as a women's rights |
| 1:40.9 | activist. So Riley Gaines is our guest here on the show today. I hope you'll listen. |
| 1:46.3 | I hope you'll listen with an open heart and open ears to what she's saying. And if you want to |
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