{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"At Even Strength: A Women's Hockey Podcast","title":"Katie Fitzgerald on the 2019 Women’s Hockey Divorce, Her Film Festival Win & a New Riveters Doc","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3026,"description":"rica L. Ayala sits down with Katie Fitzgerald — 2018 Isobel Cup Champion with the Metropolitan Riveters, now a graduate student in digital communications and media arts at DePaul University — to talk about life after professional hockey, the art of documentary filmmaking, and what it meant to be part of a pivotal moment in women’s hockey history.\nKatie’s short documentary film Blessed Art Thou Among Women premiered at the Dare to Dream Film Festival in Chicago — and won the audience choice award. The film tells the story of her great-aunt Betty, a former nun whose hidden life Katie discovered at a family funeral in 2022. It’s a film about family lore, generational freedom, and the things women weren’t allowed to be.\nThen: Katie is in the early stages of a documentary series about the Metropolitan Riveters — interviewing Alexa Grushow and Kim Sass about what it was actually like to leave college, move across the country, and try to build a professional women’s hockey league from the ground up.\nThe ice bath made from a horse trough. The lease signed on the hood of a car in Newark. The year that changed everything. And the decision in 2019 that she knew she’d never personally benefit from — but made anyway.\nPLUS: new PWHL rules for Season 4, including the high-sticking change, the overtime penalty shot option, and the body checking evolution. Katie reacts as a former goaltender — and it’s exactly what you’d expect.\n0:00 — Intro: Katie Fitzgerald, Isobel Cup champion, filmmaker, DePaul grad student\n3:00 — How storytelling has always been part of Katie’s identity — from goalie masks to documentary film\n6:00 — Blessed Art Thou Among Women: the story of great-aunt Betty, the secret revealed at a funeral, and what the film is really about\n13:00 — The editing process: what ended up on the cutting room floor and what took the longest to get right\n18:00 — Where to watch it: the DVD-menu website Katie is building, and a possible feature-length expansion\n23:00 — The...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/kHL1ZWDjEmW3PqxgmqemS6lXnEpxyKdN_WqoRIhia98/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zM2Zk/YTZmYjZjZTEwYmVh/MmI3MmQwZDE3OTNi/MjU5My5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}