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After an exciting week of the U.S. Women's Olympic Rugby Team announcement, Olympians and hosts Kristi Kirshe and Lauren Doyle sit down with USA Men's Sevens players Lucas Lacamp and Madison Hughes to wrap up the 2024 SVNS season and look ahead to prep for Paris 2024.
Chasing Eagles hosts Kristi Kirshe and Lauren Doyle chat with USA Women's Eagles Rachel Johnson and Tess Feury ahead of their first 2024 Pacific Four Series test match against Canada on home soil.
Chasing Eagles hosts Lauren Doyle and Kristi Kirshe chat with fellow sevens players Kevon Williams and Marcus Tupuola ahead of their home event at LA SVNS.
On this weeks Scrum Down, Corbs runs through the past weeks action in the Heineken Champions Cup, discussing travel issues and wage disparities in the teams before touching on his thoughts on what English rugby needs to change and integrate between league and national team to benefit the sport. And then we are joined by USA 7s Eagle Kristi Kirshe to react to USA securing Olympic qualification, their growth as team this year on and off the field and her own journey into Rugby, having not picked up a Rugby ball until just 5 years ago.
Topics Discussed: -Kristi's journey into rugby.-The sacrifices of playing for the national team. -What it means to her to play for her country.-Feelings about being a role model for young woman coming up in the sport.-How her training has changed over the years.-Experience playing for the olympics. - Favorite moments playing for the national team.
American Olympic Rugby Player Kristi Kirshe joins the Bothering Strangers podcast to talk about why rugby is not popular in the United States, playing in the Olympics, and the value of cross-training. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/max-heering2/support
Huzzah Rangers! This is the 19th episode of The Jack's Rangers Show: A New England Free Jack's Fan Podcast. Merch is coming! Merch is coming! Be on the look out for the official announcement on social of the shop going live soon. On this episode we have a chat with Big Joe Shepard, our Irish cousin, from across the pond, a Free Jacks fan who the head of a rugby empire called The Three Bod Rugby Group. Also, we interviewed Free Jacks new signing from South Africa Wayne ver der Bank. Also, we spoke with USA Rugby 7s star and Free Jacks fan Kristi Kirshe. Finally, we had a chat with Free Jack's captain Josh Larsen!
In this episode, Kaavya talks with USA Rugby Sevens player Kristi Kirshe. A graduate of Williams College, she talks through her journey playing three sports in high school, playing D3 soccer, and how she found Rugby (a really neat story). She gives advice on trying new things and feeling vulnerable, how rugby empowers young women, how to combat negative body image, and her pregame rituals. They chat about her and her team's Olympic aspirations for 2021 and how they're preparing for it during this pandemic. This was such an inspiring conversation, check it out!
USA Rugby Sevens Player and 2015 Division III Soccer National Champion, Kristi Kirshe's life was always surrounded by sports. After graduating from Williams College and adding a National Championship to her resume, she was uncertain about her identity without sports. After working less than a year in the corporate world, she began to play rugby. In just 11 short months, she earned a contract with the USA National Rugby Team and is now out in San Diego training with the team in preparation for making the 20201 Olympics.
After months of disruption due to COVID-19, the USA Women's National Team 7s have finally returned to training. Kristi Kirshe and Ilona Maher recap their time in quarantine, what it's like to be back and the rigorous protocols in place to protect the squad.
Teams of the Decade #2: 2012 Franklin Girls Soccer – featuring forward Kristi Kirshe and goalie Dani Lonati. Hosted by Josh Perry. 2012 Franklin Girls Soccer