Women in sports media face the unfair assumption that they are romantically involved with the athletes they interview simply because they build rapport.

“but it's like very weird I think for humans to think that a man and a woman can have trust with each other in an incredibly platonic way so if I post an interview all the comments are like oh are they together are they dating do they like each other they have chemistry”

Mina Kimes believes that being herself on television rather than conforming to a polished archetype was the key to her career success.

“I thought I had to be polished I'm thinking about when my TV are polished I'm not polished Ryan you know that and you know I was like I don't really look like everyone on TV and I've seen and I'm doing a job that women don't do or whatever and so I gotta really like you know make sure it's like pret”