Speak Up Sports

Today, Anna is joined with one of her role models, Rachel Luba. Rachel is a former collegiate gymnast who turned to boxing at UCLA. After she found her passion in sports, she decided to become an MLB player agent, and started her own agency, Luba Sports in 2019. Not only is Rachel one of the few female agents in the sports industry, she just recently signed her agent Trevor Bauer to a record breaking 3 year, 112 million dollar contract. Anna will be talking with Rachel about what made her decide to

This week's podcast is featuring amazing women's hockey legend, AJ Mleczko. AJ is a Harvard alum, who played at the 1st ever women's hockey Olympics in 1998 representing USA. Over her career, she had many incredible accomplishments and honors, including being inducted to multiple different Hall of Fames. Anna will be talking with AJ about her journey as a hockey athlete, what it has been like breaking into a broadcasting career field without many women, and how she has seen the hockey sport grow

On this week's episode of the Speak Up Sports Podcast, Paxton Baker joins Anna to talk about how his music career took him into the sports industry as he is now an owner of a MLB team. Paxton Baker is a businessman, entrepreneur, previous producer of multiple Grammy nominated albums, and the current Chairman of the Congressional Award. Anna will be talking more about his career and his many more amazing accomplishments! Mr. Baker will share that after the Nationals won the World Series in 2019, they

This week, Anna is joined with soccer legend, Julie Foudy. Julie is a 2x Women's World Cup Champion, 3-time Olympic Medalist, a Hall of Fame Soccer player, an author, and so many more amazing things! Julie runs her own summer camp for young girls called the Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academy and she is helping the next generation of females in sports become leaders. She is a reporter for ESPN and she is voice for many of the soccer game telecasts. We will be talking about her experiences as an

On this episode of the Speak Up Sports Podcast, Anna Laible is joined with her role model, the amazing Jessica Mendoza. Jessica is a 4-time First Team All-American, a 2-time Olympic Medalist, a First Team Academic All-American in 2002, a previous Stanford Female Athlete of the Year, and a 2019 National Softball Hall of Fame inductee! She is now in the broadcasting world, and she was the 1st female to broadcast national MLB games, and last year, she became the 1st woman to broadcast World Series

On the first episode of the Speak Up Sports podcast, Anna Laible sits down over zoom to talk with Houston Astros Manager, Dusty Baker. Dusty Baker is a 2x Sliver Slugger, 2x All-Star, Gold Glove winner, 3x Manager of the Year, and he is the winningest manager without a World Series Trophy with a career 1,892 wins. Dusty Baker talks about starting his playing career in the majors at only 19 years old, and about his mentor and long-time best friend, Hank Aaron.

Welcome to the Speak Up Sports podcast! Stay tuned for the first episode dropping next Monday, March 1st!