Team

Our founder and CEO Sara Gross believes that through storytelling, education and community building we can shift the dial to a more inclusive culture for female athletes and active women and girls. After defending her PhD in Women’s History in 2008, Sara competed as a professional Triathlete for thirteen years and won two Ironman titles along the way. The most feisty thing Sara has ever done is start a media company with no clue how to actually do that. Bootstrapping and getting the best out of people are her superpowers.

Kathryn is a triathlete turned gravel cyclist, general lover of all types of outdoor adventures, and the Founder of Girls Gone Gravel. She has been published in USA Triathlon Magazine, Cycling Tips and has been a regular contributor for Triathlete Magazine articles. She works full-time for Feisty Media as a brand manager, helping active, performance-minded women find the resources they need to do the things they love.

In addition to being the host of Hit Play Not Pause, Selene Yeager is the Leader and Content Manager of the Menopause Feisties. She is a top-selling professional health and fitness writer who lives what she writes as an NASM certified personal trainer, USA Cycling licensed coach, Pn1 certified nutrition coach, pro licensed off road racer, and former All-American Ironman triathlete. Selene is feisty in many ways but especially because she talks about menopause out loud, without embarrassment, in traditionally male spaces.

Ellen Pennock does a lot of things behind-the-scenes at Feisty Media including design, branding, social, co-starring in TikToks and signs her emails “Creative Director.” Feisty Media combines two of Ellen’s favourite things: sport and creativity. Ellen raced on the Canadian national triathlon team on and off for ten years (including guiding for paratriathlon), and is passionate about elevating women’s sport, especially when it comes to keeping girls in sport.

Kelly O’Mara is the former editor-in-chief of Triathlete Magazine. She was the original co-host of the wildly popular If We Were Riding podcast and writes the weekly Triathlonish newsletter. Kelly mostly writes about sports and the outdoors (and gets tired of explaining she’s not a fitness writer) for places like espnW, Outside, Competitor, and for countless endurance brands. She lives across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco and is also a regular contributor to the area’s NPR station, KQED.

As our Feisty Operator, Ella Hnatyshyn manages various operational tasks, putting her business degree to good use while also feeding her passion of elevating women in sport. She also competes as an elite triathlete, having recently completed her first pro 70.3.

Jocelyn Wong Neill has been a triathlete for more than half her life after blowing all her Chinatown scholarship money on a road bike and completing her first Ironman in 2002 before she graduated college. After racing around the world as the first Asian-American female pro triathlete, she focused on building a rewarding career as a prosthetist-orthotist. Originally a San Francisco Bay Area native, she is now based in Delaware and balances making prosthetic legs with chasing her toddler around and racing triathlons for funsies. She remains extremely passionate about promoting diversity in the sport of triathlon, particularly for Asian-Americans and physically challenged athletes.

Alyssa Godesky is a professional triathlete who has logged over 8,000 miles in competition of swimming, biking and running across five continents, including 36 Ironman finishes. She came to triathlon from an ultrarunning background and over the last few years has found success back on the trails. She is a triathlon and endurance sports coach, based in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Haley is a Bozeman, Montana based professional triathlete, multisport coach, and former NCAA Division I swimmer at the University of Georgia. Haley is an Ironman Champion and a 7x Ironman 70.3 Champion and has finished in the top ten and top 20 in the 70.3 and Ironman World Championships, respectively. Haley competed in the 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, her third Olympic Trials after previously racing in the 2004 and 2008 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials.

Sarah True is a professional triathlete, 2-time Olympian, and mom. She is the co-host of the triathlon-ish podcast If We Were Riding.

Molly Hurford is a writer and podcaster in love with all things running and cycling. She’s a little obsessed with getting women into the endurance sport world, whether it’s getting more girls on bikes with the Shred Girls book series or with The Business of Fitness Podcast, which helps women find their way in the athletic industry. She also co-hosts The Consummate Athlete Podcast with her husband Peter, writes books about endurance sport, plays with her mini-dachshund named DW and dabbles in ultra-running.

Kristi Mohn is an Emporia, Kansas local. Her cycling journey began in 2004 and she hasn’t looked back since, though she does still enjoy the occasional jog. She joined the UNBOUND Gravel team early on, and worked hard to get more women at gravel start lines ever since. Her main passion in the cycling space has been all about more inclusive start lines, and collaborating and brainstorming ways to make that happen.

Carrie Barrett is the producer of multiple Feisty podcasts as well as a self-proclaimed, reluctant triathlete. Today, she splits time between Bend, Oregon and Austin, Texas where she’s a coach, writer, podcast host and producer. Her willingness to just jump in and go for it makes her feisty – whether it’s trying a new sport, moving to a new town, or asking for an interview. Great lessons always emerge from giving it a go!

Lydia Russell is a professional short course triathlete competing as a U23 for team USA. Originally from Philadelphia, but now based in Tucson, she is a lover of all things outdoors anywhere. Through her experiences competing at a variety of levels within just a few years, she has become passionate about empowering the next generation of women in sport. She hopes that through her work at Feisty she can learn skills to advocate for women’s voices to be elevated in traditionally male dominated spaces.

Maggie is a North Carolina kid who is as happy cycling down a gravel road as they are hanging a hammock in the mountains or kayaking on the lake. They started cycling in 2019 to raise money, miles, and awareness for pediatric cancer and it has been a mostly happy blur ever since. They are so excited to make the cycling world more inclusive as part of the All Bodies on Bikes and greater Feisty family!

Marley Blonsky is the Co-Founder of All Bodies on Bikes and loves all kinds of riding – including mountain biking, gravel, cyclocross racing, and bikepacking. Marley currently lives in Bentonville, Arkansas with her two senior dogs.