Highly relevant in, in this space, and- With that, I wanna introduce Angela and have her talk a little bit about the, the why around, uh, the Quantified Athlete event today, uh, the entire space overall, and we're gonna really, really walk through the different areas, uh, of the state of technology, where it is now, and where it's going in the future.

Thanks, Isaiah.

Um, so first of all, it's great to be here back on Harvard's campus.

Uh, we met y- years ago, so thank you to the iLab and Jody for hosting us, and for OneTeam Collective, it's a, it's an honor to be a part of this.

Um, just quickly, who are we? Who's the Sports Innovation Lab? I wanted to provide some context again to why we're here and why we believe this subject is so important, uh, to the market.

Um, so what are we trying to solve? Um, we realize the sports market is massive, and within that, sports tech is changing the game across from the athletes, to the sponsors, to the broadcasters, to the venues, to the teams, the leag- anyone that's touching sport, tech is influencing that.

And right now the space is so fragmented that we s- founded a company, a market research, uh, firm, that is going to deliver information in a clear, concise, um, consolidated way, that will help the industry as a whole rise.

Visit concur.com to learn more.

I

remember wanting to run my own hockey schools.

They're like, you can't do that.

You'd benefit off your name.

I'm like, well, it's me.

So I had to figure out a... creative way to not work for myself, if you will.

So there's little things just like, let me have my own camps.

Talk about that story.

So what did that exit teach you? Any

entrepreneur that's starting, I'm like, it's hard.

Building and scaling.

I mean, I learned so much as a founder, CEO that, you know, whether it's starting the company, raising the money, you know, being living through the pandemic when we lost almost every customer we had.

I mean, sports froze.

Literally, so contracts froze.

And we were one of those suppliers that, you know, got paused.

Um, So what does the data actually show? And, you know, for the business people out there, what are brands still getting wrong when it comes to women?

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... journey I've had is I've tried to really, um, listen to myself throughout not just my hockey career, but my business and sort of political career, and really, like l- like hone in on what I want to do in that moment, what I think is important, um, and pivot, which is why I love this podcast.

Like, not pivot like 180 pivot, but usually pivot like five, 10 degree pivot, um, and follow the thing that's like driving me, my heart, a, an opportunity, a, a friend, a thing that's, that energizes me.

So I've had a lot of pivotal moments, I think, um, on the ice.

I think I'll choose to spend some time off the ice just because I'm happy to talk about sports.

I love sports.

I learned so much about myself and leadership and teamwork.

Yeah.

Do you think it will have an effect on the Olympics in terms of the vibes out there? I

think it's definitely, I see more respect, I think, now with that.

We've had to, US and Canada have had to work together to get, you know, to elevate the game.

But I think you're still going to have, I mean, I'd stand a little taller on the elevator.

You know, you're trying to get your inches wherever you can.

wherever that is.

Um, so, and every team wants to win even Carol and, uh, and Julie, like they wanted to beat each other.

How do you think the game has changed since you played? What stands out to you the most about style of play changing?

What stands out to you most about those games in Nagano when you remember back to the very first time?

Um, well one, that it was a team of 20 rookies.

Like, we, even though I was the youngest and I was the, you know, the baby on the team, we were all experiencing it for the first time, and there's nothing like that, where you walk into the village and you all look at each other like, "Wow, this is so cool." Or you, you know, you go out into the opening ceremonies for that first time and, you know, collectively we're all like, "Oh." Um, doing it together, I think to me, I, it's a lesson I take for the rest of my life, and I'm still, you know, we have a WhatsApp group from that, from that team, and we're just bantering and wishing everyone happy birthday t- even to this day.

Like, I get a text from them, you know, I'm like, all right, I'm in a j- I'm in a, I'm in, I'm busy, like, stop annoying my phone.

But, like, doing it together, winning on that stage, opening the world's eyes up to women's hockey, um, you know, no one knew it, knew it existed.

And doing it in a way that we weren't favored to win.

We, we'd never beaten Canada in a major tournament.

Mm-hmm

Kaitlyn Clark effect, that's just been phenomenal, I think, for a lot of people.

Yeah, it's funny.

The league's been around.

W has been around forever.

So there's so many great players.

It's not like the game has changed, but she just has star power that's exceeded, I think, all expectations.

I'm actually an investor in the WNBA, pre-Kaitlyn Clark.

How do you do this carefully in moderation so that it's sustainable?