by admin | Dec 11, 2022 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to Brittney Griner who has finally been freed from Russia. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down to race officials who said Camille Herron’s record was on a course that was too short.
by admin | Dec 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Sometime in the coming weeks, U.S. alpine ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin will presumably — presumably being a very loaded and problematic word here — win her 83rd race on the World Cup circuit, the highest level of her sport, thus passing fellow American Lindsey Vonn...
by admin | Dec 9, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The University of Chicago men’s soccer team is stacked with All-Americans and veteran leaders. But it’s their rookie head coach who is making history. Julianne Sitch guided the university to an undefeated record and top seed in the NCAA Division III Final...
by admin | Dec 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Jamie Anderson, a two-time Olympic snowboarding champion, announced she is pregnant. “The most precious and beautiful I’ve ever felt,” was posted on Anderson’s social media. “So incredibly grateful.” Anderson, a 32-year-old who is engaged to 2018 Canadian Olympic...
by admin | Dec 8, 2022 | Representation, SEW
OlympicTalk recently caught up with Katie Ledecky to discuss life since moving from Stanford to Florida 15 months ago, her meticulous mindset, and the legacy she continues to build. Read More
by admin | Dec 8, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In the darkest moments of her toughest training sessions, professional marathon runner Mary Ngugi likes to lean on her trackside audience for motivation. That’s not necessarily her coach — or her training partners — but a much younger group of...
by admin | Dec 8, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Brittney Griner, the WNBA star who was held for months in Russian prisons on drug charges, was released Thursday in a one-for-one prisoner swap for international arms dealer Viktor Bout. “She’s safe. She’s on a plane. She’s on her way...
by admin | Dec 8, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe have launched A Touch More, a production company that focuses on the “stories of revolutionaries who move culture forward.” The power couple announced the start of the venture created in partnership with TOGETHXR — the media and...
by admin | Dec 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Camille Herron has called it a “unicorn moment” for the sport of ultrarunning – a performance that expanded the notion of what women can achieve in endurance events. When Herron crossed the finish line at Jackpot Ultra Running Festival’s 100-mile race in Henderson,...
by admin | Dec 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
UConn sophomore Azzi Fudd is expected to miss three to six weeks with a right knee injury she suffered in the first quarter of the Huskies’ loss to Notre Dame on Sunday. The news, released Tuesday by UConn, felt like a nightmarish bout of déjà vu to Huskies...
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