Episode 479: Marie Markham and Robyn McGillis – Founders of Wildwood Running

Robyn McGillis and Marie Markham are on the show today for another episode of the high school coaching series supported by V.O2. Robyn and Marie are the founders of Wildwood Running. Wildwood is committed to guide, empower, connect, and educate young female runners and coaches that impact young female runners. Robyn and Marie are both high school cross country and track coaches themselves and when they went to clinics about coaching they realized there was this missing piece and they have a lot of questions about coaching high school female runners. They have formed their own clinics with Wildwood to help empower coaches and now athletes themselves to teach about what it means to be a female athlete in these formative years. Robyn is a coach at Central Catholic High School and Marie is a coach at Lincoln High School. Robyn and Marie are both retired competitive runners themselves and they believe in the power of female leadership in youth sports and we talk all about this in this episode! What we talked about: 4:15- Introduction to Robyn and Marie 10:00- The commitment of high school coaching 15:05- The importance of female leadership 19:35- Celebrating your successes 23:30- Wildwood Running 28:20- Talking about body changes with young female athletes 48:00- Balancing parenting and coaching 53:50- Dreams with Wildwood Running 1:10:10- End of podcast questions Show notes: Wildwoodrunning.com Unoffendable The Practice of Groundedness Master of Change The House Across the Lake Connect with Lindsey: Lindsey on Instagram Lindsey on Twitter Lindsey on Facebook Join the I’ll Have Another Facebook Group Support the I’ll Have Another Podcast on Patreon Follow SandyBoy Productions: Sandyboy Productions on Twitter Sandyboy Productions on Instagram SandyBoy Productions Shows: Why is Everyone Yelling? The Illuminate Podcast The Herban Farmacy Podcast The Ready to Run Podcast Sponsors: V.O2 Use code “CoachLindsey” for 20% off your annual subscription If you want to learn more about utilizing V.O2 for coaching, email me at Lindsey@sandyboyproductions.com