by admin | Jul 21, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The NCAA has adequately addressed nine of 23 recommendations for creating comparable NCAA Tournament experiences for men’s and women’s basketball players, according to a progress report released Wednesday. College sports’ largest governing body hired a third party to...
by admin | Jul 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
WNBA stars Nneka Ogwumike and Skylar Diggins-Smith joined ESPYs host Steph Curry on the stage during Wednesday night’s show to share a powerful message about Brittney Griner’s wrongful detainment in Russia. “We cannot stop fighting for her,” Curry said. “We cannot...
by admin | Jul 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Most WNBA fans have deemed the Atlanta Dream’s Rhyne Howard, the 2022 No. 1 draft pick, the runaway favorite to win WNBA Rookie of the Year. But the race shouldn’t be as lopsided as it might appear because of the stellar, yet somewhat subdued in...
by admin | Jul 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Kazakhstan’s Norah Jeruto could only watch the Tokyo Olympic 3000m steeplechase. Able to run for her new country this year, she left no doubt who is the world’s top steepler on Wednesday night. Jeruto won the world championships gold medal in Eugene, Oregon, in 8...
by admin | Jul 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Record attendance at the 2022 UEFA Women’s Euro in England has organisers licking their lips in anticipation for next year’s Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Wednesday marks one year until the 2023 tournament kicks off, as interest in...
by admin | Jul 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert is on her 12-city tour of the league, and landed in Los Angeles Tuesday to take in Sparks vs. Fever. Engelbert took some time to speak with the media, which included members of Swish Appeal, about the state of the WNBA and how it...
by admin | Jul 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Lee Kiefer, who in Tokyo became the second U.S. woman to win an Olympic fencing gold medal, claimed foil bronze at the world championships in Cairo on Tuesday. Kiefer, 28 and ranked No. 1 in the world, won her first four bouts before falling to Italian veteran Arianna...
by admin | Jul 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Alex Morgan scored a penalty late in the second half to guide the United States to a 1-0 victory over Canada in the CONCACAF W Championship final in Monterrey, Mexico, on Monday night. The game was a rematch of last summer’s Olympic semifinal game, which Canada...
by admin | Jul 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
World 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce had to fix her wig halfway through her women’s 200m heat as she suffered a surprise defeat to Niger’s Aminatou Seyni. The incident occurred as the Jamaican flew around the bend and felt her electric turquoise wig slipping –...
by admin | Jul 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In 2015, Jenny Simpson, arguably the greatest U.S. female miler in history, slapped a label on a budding runner from Kenya named Faith Kipyegon. “I call her the sniper,” Simpson said then, three months after the then-21-year-old Kipyegon won her first global 1500m...
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