Trailblazing Women’s Sports Coverage: She Got Game® Founder Tandaleya Wilder Marks 20 Years of Empowerment

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3 min readApr 19, 2023
She Got Game® Founder Tandaleya Wilder

Miami, Florida

Sports fans who hear the phrase “She Got Game®” may not know it’s associated with the nation’s first women’s sports podcast. Tandaleya Wilder, a pioneering National Public Radio sports journalist, entrepreneur, and CEO of She Got Game® Media, trademarked the phrase more than 20 years ago when she and a group of talented journalists including Former WNYC Producer Eddie Granado and Stephanie Simon of NY 1 launched “She Got Game®: A Celebration of Women in Sports.” The show aired on WSHU Public Radio in Fairfield, Connecticut and was syndicated nationally as 1 hour women’s sports specials.

“Working with Tandi and helping to brainstorm women’s sports stories at the time was amazing, said Granado. I knew she was on to something big. She’s a true pioneer when it comes to women and girl’s sports coverage.”

The highly-produced show included Q&A’s, music, long-form feature stories, and even sports trivia. The show was a pioneering broadcast that offered a platform for women athletes and their achievements in a way that wasn’t being done before. It won several national and regional awards before it ended its run due to budget challenges. Wilder later transformed the She Got Game® brand into a successful PR &…

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