At Hofstra University, female sports broadcasting is making strides. At WRHU Radio, sophomore sports media major Sienna Olivares created the station’s first female sports talk show, which highlights women’s sports and their impact on her own life.
“When I was in the training class last spring around this time, my goal was to create a women’s sports show,” Olivares said.
WRHU is Hofstra’s five-time Marconi Radio Award-winning radio station, featuring music, talk, news, sports and entertainment. Up until Feb. 20, 2026, WRHU never had a women’s sports talk show.
“It wasn’t really something I thought anybody would be into,” Olivares said.
Now, almost a year after joining WRHU, she successfully launched her show.
Before the show aired, Olivares was already making her presence known within the station’s sports department.
She is the current sports social media manager and covers both men’s and women’s basketball at Hofstra. She has done play-by-play, color and sideline reporting. At the beginning of March, she traveled to Washington, D.C., and did the play-by-play reporting for the Hofstra women’s basketball team as they took on the Coastal Athletic Association Championship.
Adding to her list of experience, she is now the producer and creator of “She Got Game.”
The show was originally going to be called “Winning Woman,” but after deliberation with other station members, the name was changed.
“It really grasps how women are just as good as men in playing sports,” Olivares said.
Airing every Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., the show focuses on educating and entertaining its audience on what’s going on in the female sports world.
“Women’s sports are here, and it’s here to stay,” Olivares said.
She aims to highlight topics that aren’t talked about every day. Her love for sports in school inspired her to start a show, after noticing how female sports, like the WNBA, weren’t being covered as much as other major men’s leagues.
“Everyone’s always attracted to the big three – the MLB, NBA, NFL.” Olivares said. “[Women’s sports] is what is happening behind closed doors, and this is what the media fails to cover.”
Playing basketball for most of her life, her love for sports sparked early on, as she participated in varsity basketball and flag football at Commack High School.
She began her journey at Hofstra, unsure of what path she wanted to take upon her arrival.
“I was trying to find my place, trying to find my niche of where I was going to thrive,” Olivares said. “I feel like women’s sports was definitely that thing for me.”
In the spring of her freshman year, she joined WRHU’s training class with the idea of her show already brewing in her mind.
“I know it’s been tried to be done before, and it didn’t work out,” Olivares said. “And for me to be able to do it and put my best foot forward … it just feels so unreal.”
Now in its seventh week, Olivares has secured interviews with multiple female sports icons, including Julia Morales, the first female broadcaster for the Houston Astros, as well as Doris Burke, Hall of Fame broadcaster for the NBA.
Creating the show hasn’t been easy. Olivares is currently the only producer and often comes up with topics on her own. She says it’s been difficult, especially since there isn’t much going on with female sports currently.
“There may not be a WNBA season, the [Professional Women’s Hockey League] is fresh off their winter Olympics and the women’s baseball league is starting up in the summer,” Olivares said. “There just really isn’t anything going on right now, so I really try for this show to be something educational.”
Despite this, the show has continued to grow and make history at WRHU.
Olivares said, “I couldn’t be more grateful for WRHU to have trust in me, have faith in my plan and to see it through.”
