What girls and women in sports need to unlock their potential | Kate Ackerman

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🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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As a sports scientist, athlete and director of the Female Athlete Program at Boston Children's Hospital, Kate Ackerman understands that women athletes need more than pretty sports bras or new sneakers to achieve peak performance -- they need true investment committed to their health and well-being. Ackerman advocates for a long overdue sports medical system that's dedicated to the study and development of women athletes, supporting lifelong success on and off the field.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm your host Elise Hugh.
0:14.4	Title IX legislation in the US changed the game for women in sports, but in equalizing
0:19.4	opportunities for female athletes, health protocols and performance research didn't
0:24.3	follow suit.
0:25.3	In her 2022 talk, Ted Ex Boston, sports medicine specialist Kate Ackerman says female
0:31.4	athletes deserve more.
0:33.9	She makes a case for how, after the break.
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1:09.7	I want you all to imagine a place where female athletes could come and they could get interdisciplinary
1:16.8	medical care and they could get the answers to their questions so that they could achieve
1:22.2	peak performance throughout their lifespan.
1:25.8	Where they could get educated about the physical changes that happened during puberty, where
1:30.6	they could learn how to use their menstrual cycle to their performance advantage, where
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