Episode 29: Pride Recap/Spirit Preview

Episode 29: Pride Recap/Spirit Preview

BACK TO BACK WINS! BACK TO BACK SHUTOUTS! The good times keep rolling for the swans in Orlando. The performance may not have been the best, but three points is three points! With Courtney away, Liz and Andy were joined by first time guest Jack to discuss the historic first road win and shutout. We were then joined by André from Hey Spirits! to preview the Legacy's blockbuster match against Washington this weekend. Hey Spirits is a great show and a great follow on your various social media platforms. Check them out!. The prediction game kept rolling this week, with Andy making up a little bit of ground on the field. Here are the results after the Orlando Pride game: Standings After Stars Game * Opposition: 11 points * Courtney: 9 points * Andy: 4 points * Legacy guest: 2 points Predictions for Pride Game * Andy: 2-1 Spirit * Courtney: 2-1 Spirit (picked by Liz) * André: 1-1 (Not for science!) * Jack: 2-0 Spirit A lot of pessimism from the home fans! Hope we're wrong! Thanks again to André and Jack for joining us. If you want to reach us you can do so at BLFCSwanDive on Bluesky and Instagram and at BLFCSwanDive@gmail.com. We always need guests and we want to hear what you think of the show. Do you have questions? Comments? Feedback? Send it all in. The Swan Dive is a proud partner of The Blazing Musket podcast network. Check them out for all your New England soccer news. Until next time! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 28: Stars Recap/Pride Preview

CLEAN SHEET! CLEAN SHEET! That's right, the Legacy recorded their first ever clean sheet against the Chicago Stars and we get to talk about what was a really solid looking Legacy team! Courtney and Andy were joined by second time guest Brendan (a different Brendan as you will hear) to discuss the big win and shutout. Courtney also had another listener shoutout with a funny (maybe? She can laugh at it now anyways) little story time. We were then joined by Luis from Loud & Proud Orlando to preview the Legacy's mid week fixture against the Orlando Pride. If you havent checked out Loud & Proud Orlando, be sure to do so and give their show a little listen as well. As always, our prediction game is going strong. Here are the results after the Chicago Stars game. Well, they are the same as they were last week because everyone got a big goose egg. Here is a reminder: Standings After Stars Game * Opposition: 11 points * Courtney: 9 points * Andy: 3 points * Legacy guest: 2 points Predictions for Pride Game * Andy: 3-1 Legacy * Courtney: 1-1 draw (for science!) * Luis: 3-2 Orlando * Brendan: 2-1 Orlando Thanks again to Luis and Brendan for joining us. If you want to reach us you can do so at BLFCSwanDive on Bluesky and Instagram and at BLFCSwanDive@gmail.com. We always need guests and we want to hear what you think of the show. Do you have questions? Comments? Feedback? Send it all in. The Swan Dive is a proud partner of The Blazing Musket podcast network. Check them out for all your New England soccer news. Until next time! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 27: Bay FC Recap/Chicago Stars Preview

We are back to talk about the Legacy's first game back after the extended international break. Andy and Courtney were joined by first time guest Cam to take a look at the Legacy's 2-2 draw against Bay FC. We saw the debut of Lilly Reale and the return of Lais Araujo along with some other lineup changes as well as Amanda Gutierres scoring her. first goal from the run of play. We talked about all that and more! Then we were joined again by Liz from the Red Stars Report to preview Friday night's rematch against the Chicago Stars. We caught up with how. the rest of the Stars season has gone since our first match back in April and shared some thoughts on what Friday's match might look like. As always we wrapped up with our prediction game. Here are the updated results after the Bay game as well as the predictions for the Stars game. Standings After Bay FC * Opposition: 11 points * Courtney: 9 points * Andy: 3 points * Legacy guest: 2 points Predictions for Stars Game * Andy 2-2 draw * Courtney 1-1 draw * Cam 3-3 draw * Liz: 2-1 Stars Thanks again. to Liz and Cam! As always you can reach us at BLFCSwanDive on Bluesky and Instagram as well as at BLFCSwanDive@gmail.com. We love to hear from you so whether you have questions, comments, feedback, opinions, want. to be on the show, let us know! The Swan Dive is a proud partner of The Blazing Musket, check them out for all your New England soccer news and notes. See you Friday! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 26: Women's Sports Landscape/Bay FC Preview

Legacy fans, we are back with our last "special episode" before the team is finally back in action on Sunday. Obviously, we at the Swan Dive are supporters of women's sports so this episode takes a little look into the landscape of women's sports with some special guests. Our first guest Greg talked with Andy about the Boston Dream organization and how it not only interfaces with the Boston Legacy, but touched on a lot of the great things they are doing to promote leadership, development, education and opportunities to young women and girls in New England soccer community (that is just a brief summary of what Boston Dream does, listen to the episode and let Greg tell you about it himself). We then spoke with Amy (Courtney's "missed connection" from a few episodes ago), who is a Legacy season ticket holder as well as a former NCAA athlete and coach. Amy shared some of her thoughts and experiences with how the support of women's sports have changed over the years, both from the perspective of a player/coach and as a fan. We also discussed this how the landscape has changed in the NWSL itself over the years. We also discuss our latest player signing! Then, because it's finally a game week, we did a little preview of the Legacy's upcoming game against Bay FC and the predictions have returned! Here is a reminder of the standings and this week's predictions (please take the Bay prediction with a grain of salt, random number generator did them dirty). Current Standings * Opposition: 11 points * Courtney: 8 points * Andy: 3 points * Legacy fan: 2 points Bay FC Predictions * Andy: 2-1 Legacy * Courtney: 1-1 draw (for science!) * Amy: 2-0 Legacy * Opposition: 3-1 Legacy (told you, grain of salt) We can't wait to hopefully see everyone Sunday. Come say hi, we have missed our soccer community over the last month or so. As always please reach out to us (we are back to needing guests) at BLFCSwanDive on Bluesky and Instagram and at BLFCSwanDive@gmail.com. We also love feedback, questions, comments, etc we want to hear from you! As always, Swan Dive is proud to be a partner of The Blazing Musket, follow them for all your New England soccer news and notes! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 25: Midseason Recap and Ask Us Anything!

Welcome to the 25th episode of The Swan Dive! We are back after a bit of a break with a bit of a different episode this week. Since the league is on break, we don't have any games to review or preview, but did do some fun things this week. Before we got to all that, we had some exciting news to discuss! The Legacy announced the signing of USWNT and Gotham FC defender (and MA Native) Lilly Reale and a pretty lengthy contract extension as well. The Legacy was kind enough to announce that BEFORE we recorded for a change so we got to share some thoughts about that. As far as the fun stuff, Andy led us off some stats for the first part of the season with his season "by the numbers" segment. We then handed the show over to Liz to helps us decide on some mid season superlatives and moderate our "Ask Us Anything" segment with the questions that you, the listener, sent in. We know this was a bit of a long one this week but hope you enjoy this fun little episode; it was fun for us record. We will be back in two weeks for our last international break episode and preview of our first game back in July. As always, you can get in touch with us at blfcswandive on Bluesky and Instagram as well as BLFCSwanDive@gmail.com. We love to hear your questions, comments, feedback, etc The Swan Dive is a proud partner of The Blazing Musket podcast network. Check them out for all of your New England soccer news and updates! See you in a few weeks! ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.