After reading about Debbie Antonelli, I got curious about her pod-casting partner Beth Mowins.

A four-year letterwinner and two-year captain of the Lafayette women's basketball team, in 2005 Mowins was inducted into the Lafayette College Hall of Fame. She still ranks among Lafayette's top players, setting the single-season (220) and career (715) assists records. She ranks seventh on the all-time scoring list, with 1,159 points as a guard. Mowins also led the Leopards to the 1986-87 East Coast Conference championship.

As outlined in 2005 article from WomensSportsNet, "From Backyard to Broadcast Booth," Mowins has slowly worked her way up through the broadcasting ranks. It should come as no surprise that she graduated from Syracuse's Newhouse School of Communication (as do so many of ESPN's announcers...now you know why the Orange gets so much abuse in their commercials). "One of her biggest hopes," says the article, "is that women’s sports will continue to gain a bigger viewing audience.

“My wish, and TV ratings bear me out,” says Mowins, “a lot more women play now, have kids who play, but don’t watch women’s sports on TV. If more women would watch women’s sports on TV it would urge [TV] executives to put more on.”

By the way, if you haven't yet, do check out Debbie and Beth's podcast. (The latest one, by the way, has a great interview with Cal coach Joanne Boyle.) It runs about 30 minutes and is as close as D-1 women's basketball gets to a national radio show.