Episode 110: Laurie Henes

Laughter Permitted with Julie Foudy

Julie Foudy

Sports

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Two-time NCAA women’s cross country coach of the year Laurie Henes joins Laughter Permitted to share how fun and joy are key elements to the success of her NC State cross country and track & field programs. Laurie talks about how she encourages a team atmosphere in the individual sport of running, how she helps her runners find a way to succeed without spending too much time in the "pain cave" and how she creates an environment where her athletes feel empowered. In the close of the episode, Lynn shares how advice from Laurie in this episode helped her get over a mental hurdle when it comes to running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Laughter Permitted podcast is brought to you by Ally.
0:02.8	Do it right.
0:04.0	Hello! Welcome to Laughter Permitted. I'm Julie Fowdy.
0:07.7	I'm Lino Zowie. Our guest this episode might be the most aligned guest we've ever had on Laughter Permitted
0:14.8	because she is all about finding the joy in life and sports.
0:20.1	And we learned about her thanks to another joy finder, Dr. Colleen Hacker.
0:25.6	Flash!
0:28.1	Colleen sent us actually a New York Times article
0:31.7	about NC State's North Carolina State's cross-country program.
0:35.9	And it featured the head coach, Lori Henness, who has built her cross-country
0:42.9	and track programs around the premise that, wait for it, you can do sports and have fun and be
0:54.4	successful. Look at that. And Lori is the director of cross-country and track and field that are
1:00.3	all-ma-modern North Carolina State, where she won a national title herself back in the 1990s.
1:07.3	And under her guidance, this head coach, North Carolina State, has won back-to-back
1:12.5	national championships in cross-country in 2021 and 2022. And she also was voted the NCAA
1:20.4	women's cross-country coach of the year, both of those years. We spent time with Lori to soak in
1:26.9	as much of her coaching philosophy as possible because we all need this wonderful perspective
1:31.7	of how success and joy, while in the grind, can co-exist. So get comfortable listening. It's Lori
1:42.1	Henness. Hey there, dope village. Lynn and I have been involved in women's sports
1:47.4	our entire lives. And I don't know about you, but we both feel it. We smell it. We even taste it.
1:54.4	We've never been more excited for what's to come in women's sports. And one big reason why?
2:00.3	Ally. Ally has made a commitment to an equal media investment in women's and men's sports.
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