What actually goes down after a season-ending NFL injury with guest Melanie Wilking Ekeler
Sunday Sports Club with Allison Kuch
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4.9 • 971 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Melanie Wilking Ekeler, wife of Commanders running back Austin Ekeler, joins Allison to talk about the chaos of Austin's week 2 Achilles tear - from watching it happen in the stands to packing up their apartment and moving across the country in less than a week. Plus- why his mom is her game day hero, and how she built her own career as a dancer turned content creator.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.1 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome back to a Sunday Sports Club podcast, a podcast all about sports told by a woman |
| 0:09.0 | and that woman is me. |
| 0:10.1 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm your host, Alison Cooch. |
| 0:12.0 | And today I am joined with Melanie Wilking Eccler. |
| 0:19.5 | Hello. |
| 0:20.6 | Do you have two last names? |
| 0:22.0 | So it's legally just Echler, but professionally I still go by Wilking. |
| 0:27.0 | So I'm kind of hyphenated, but like that's not legal. |
| 0:30.2 | Okay. |
| 0:30.6 | You didn't legally hyphenate it? |
| 0:32.3 | No, it's just Echler. |
| 0:33.7 | I feel bad for the kids who have hyphenated last names because I'm like, you have two last names or like one, but it's double and it's a little confusing. It's a lot and like wilking Echler. It's a lot of letters. So I'm like, I don't know. You're like ex-nate that out. We're transitioning, I guess, to just Echler, but yeah, Instagram, TikTok. It takes time. It's still wilking. I never made that transition. So, I mean, I really know. I'm like legally and social media and everything is still. Yeah, I haven't changed it. That is totally fine. I thought it would bother me once I had a daughter or a child. I didn't know I was having a daughter. But I thought it would bother me because she would have a different last name, but it hasn't. So, you know, I'm a modern woman. |
| 1:15.9 | But anyways, welcome to the show. Okay, I want to dive in of like so many different avenues. |
| 1:23.9 | Your husband just had a season-ending injury. He did. |
| 1:27.7 | He tore his Achilles. |
| 1:29.8 | I mean, beginning of football season. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.7 | What game was it? |
| 1:34.6 | Thursday night they were playing in Green Bay, week two, I think. |
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