What it takes to be an Olympic Mom with Kendall Coyne Schofield
Sunday Sports Club with Allison Kuch
Dear Media
4.9 • 971 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Allison catches up with Olympic gold medalist and professional hockey player Kendall Coyne Schofield to talk about what nobody tells you about being an athlete and a mom at the same time. From playing hockey while pregnant to returning to the ice six weeks postpartum to winning gold in Italy - Kendall gets real about the physical, emotional, and logistical chaos of doing it all. Plus, how her son Drew accidentally became the internet's Puck Kid in the middle of the Milan Olympic Games.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.1 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:03.9 | Welcome back to Sunday Sports Club podcast, a podcast all about sports told by a woman |
| 0:08.9 | and that woman is me. |
| 0:10.1 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm Alison Cooch. |
| 0:11.4 | And today I am joined by Kendall Coyne Schofield. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm so excited to talk with you. |
| 0:20.8 | And actually, we go way back because our husbands played |
| 0:24.0 | on Los Angeles Chargers together. So how are you doing? I mean, you just won a gold medal. |
| 0:31.7 | Yes, it's so good to see you, Allie. I mean, it's been years. I wish we were just like at a coffee |
| 0:36.2 | shop, which we will get there with our children one day |
| 0:38.6 | and just hang out and catch up. |
| 0:40.8 | And I still have made your phone with that you, Isaac and Michael, got to hang out in Italy together. And I couldn't be there because obviously I was busy in the village or at the rink, whatever we were doing. but it is so great to see you, to see all of your success, to see your beautiful baby and your soon-to-be-second beautiful baby and just all the incredible things you are doing. |
| 1:00.3 | It has been so fun to watch from afar. |
| 1:03.2 | It's crazy. |
| 1:04.7 | Our trajectories after like our husbands played together, like all the things, I mean, you were always playing hockey, |
| 1:11.2 | but all the things that we've like accomplished and now it's just crazy looking back at it. |
| 1:15.8 | But I mean, yes, I got to hang out with your husband while in Italy at the Olympics, |
| 1:20.7 | but you probably didn't get much free time while at the Olympics. |
| 1:24.6 | So like, what was that? |
| 1:27.4 | And how long were you there two weeks? What was that like? |
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