Nice Girls Don't Sweat features Sammy Kay Knight, English teacher and veteran of the All-American Red Heads professional basketball team, as she tells stories about women's experiences with sports and exercise over time. While she talks with the reporter who has come to interview her before the faculty-student game that evening, Sammy Kay also shares historical and contemporary pictures from her scrapbooks.

Her verbal meanderings engage the enduring themes of physical capacities, propriety, and femininity.

An author, storyteller, performer, and recovering academic, Jane Curry received her B.A. from Hanover College and her M. A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She performs nationally with two other solo shows she has written: Samantha "Rastles" the Women Question, and Just Say Know: Educating Females for the 21st Century. For nine seasons she has toured with the Minnesota Chautauqua as Samantha, as the the storyteller in "River Ramblings," and in "The Trouble Begins at Eight."

Born and reared in Speedway, Indiana, within earshot of the Indianapolis 500, as a youngster Curry played football in the neighborhood, baseball at recess, and basketball wherever she found a hoop and backboard. She also churned the waters on the local swimming team and continued to play sports in high school and college. Illustrating that the Peter Principle endures, she has coached a high school tennis team and a grade school basketball team. Nowadays, she is an avid racquetball player and scuba diver.