EP 24: A Book Talk with Kelcey Ervick, author of ”The Keeper: Soccer, Me and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives” (February 2023)

Host Chuck Carlson is joined by Kelcey Ervick to discuss her book, The Keeper: Soccer, Me and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives.

In the graphic memoir, Ervick looks at the role that Title IX has played in expanding opportunities for women in soccer, and sport in general, in the United States. Ervick was a goalkeeper for nationally-ranked soccer teams in high school and college in the first decades of Title IX. The book includes her own story as well as those of pioneering women soccer players.

In addition to The Keeper, she has authored three other books. A professor of English and creative writing at Indiana University South Bend, Ervick has a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. For more information, please visit her website.

Podcast produced by Brian Quarstad.

Music created by LiteSaturation and found at Pixabay.

View the video of the session at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auv1hWImG-I&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=25&pp=iAQB

For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/