{"id":2002,"date":"2021-09-20T16:52:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2021-12-06T23:52:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:52:44","slug":"tpos-podcast-episode-18-kirsten-hextrum-the-critical-theorist-of-the-level-playing-field-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/tpos-podcast-episode-18-kirsten-hextrum-the-critical-theorist-of-the-level-playing-field-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"TPOS Podcast Episode 18 \u2013 Kirsten Hextrum (\u201cThe Critical Theorist of The Level Playing Field Myth\u201d)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"TPOS Podcast Episode 18 \u2013 Kirsten Hextrum (\u201cThe Critical Theorist of The Level Playing Field Myth\u201d)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-09-20T16:52:28+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/x-m4a\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\n\n\n\n\nIn today's episode, we speak to Professor&amp;nbsp;Kirsten Hextrum, the author of the recently published&amp;nbsp;Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes, and an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma....\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TPOS-K-Hextrum-9_17_21-11.14-AM.m4a\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"115.3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4544\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2002-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TPOS-K-Hextrum-9_17_21-11.14-AM.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TPOS-K-Hextrum-9_17_21-11.14-AM.m4a\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TPOS-K-Hextrum-9_17_21-11.14-AM.m4a<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_m4a\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TPOS-K-Hextrum-9_17_21-11.14-AM.m4a\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/?powerpress_pinw=2002-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TPOS-K-Hextrum-9_17_21-11.14-AM.m4a\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TPOS-K-Hextrum-9_17_21-11.14-AM.m4a\">Download<\/a> (115.3MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In today&#8217;s episode, we speak to Professor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.edu\/education\/people\/kirsten-hextrum\">Kirsten Hextrum<\/a>, the author of the recently published&nbsp;<a href=\"file:\/\/\/Special%20Admission\/%20How%20College%20Sports%20Recruitmen%E2%80%A6\"><em>Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes<\/em><\/a>, and an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma.&nbsp;Dr. Hextrum&nbsp;is also a former NCAA Division I two-time national champion rower, and a recognized expert on college sport access, equity, and diversity. I hope you enjoy hearing Prof. Hextrum share her views on the connections between meritocracy, ideology and what she considers to be the entrenched myth of a level playing field in college sports. So please listen in for an eye-opening discussion about missed educational opportunities, class and race, and the power of college sports to misguide millions of American youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"TPOS Podcast Episode 18 \u2013 Kirsten Hextrum (\u201cThe Critical Theorist of The Level Playing Field Myth\u201d)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-09-20T16:52:28+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/x-m4a\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\n\n\n\n\nIn today's episode, we speak to Professor&amp;nbsp;Kirsten Hextrum, the author of the recently published&amp;nbsp;Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes, and an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma....\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TPOS-K-Hextrum-9_17_21-11.14-AM.m4a\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"115.3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4545\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2002-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TPOS-K-Hextrum-9_17_21-11.14-AM.m4a?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TPOS-K-Hextrum-9_17_21-11.14-AM.m4a\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TPOS-K-Hextrum-9_17_21-11.14-AM.m4a<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_m4a\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TPOS-K-Hextrum-9_17_21-11.14-AM.m4a\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/?powerpress_pinw=2002-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/TPOS-K-Hextrum-9_17_21-11.14-AM.m4a\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TPOS-K-Hextrum-9_17_21-11.14-AM.m4a\">Download<\/a> (115.3MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><p>In today&#8217;s episode, we speak to Professor&nbsp;Kirsten Hextrum, the author of the recently published&nbsp;Special Admission: How College Sports Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes, and an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma.&nbsp;Dr. Hextrum&nbsp;is also a former NCAA Division I two-time national champion rower, and a recognized expert on college sport access, equity, and diversity. I&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/tpos-podcast-episode-18-kirsten-hextrum-the-critical-theorist-of-the-level-playing-field-myth\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TPOS Podcast Episode 18 \u2013 Kirsten Hextrum (\u201cThe Critical Theorist of The Level Playing Field Myth\u201d)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[145,102,84,100],"tags":[197,80,195,196,81,99,198],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletes","category-professors-and-scholars","category-the-power-of-sports-podcast","category-writers","tag-admissions","tag-college-sports","tag-kirsten-hextrum","tag-recruitment","tag-reform","tag-the-power-of-sports-podcast","tag-university-of-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}