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Let's Elevate Girls and Women in Sport Episode 3: Please Report the Realness of This: Pressure, Opportunity, and Honor
38 minutes Posted Feb 9, 2023 at 6:32 pm.
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In this episode, Dr. Dana K. Voelker talks with Rachel Balkovec – the first woman to manage a Major League Baseball (MLB) – affiliated team and the first woman to become a full-time strength and conditioning coach and full-time hitting coach in MLB history. Rachel gets real about her experiences with discrimination as a woman in professional sport coaching, her perseverance through rejection, the difference makers in her career, and perspectives on mentorship.