by admin | May 20, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The push for equal gender pay in sports got a shot in the arm this week when the U.S. Soccer Federation announced that players for the men’s and women’s national teams would get equal compensation. Yet while the U.S. soccer teams have achieved parity,...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
She was an original in every way. She helped pave the way and in the end she had seen and done it all. WNBA legend Sheryl Swoopes has an army of accolades that most can only dream of attaining. Beginning with her college days at Texas Tech in which she was a First...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Leadership, Representation
If she’s being honest — something Candace Parker makes a point of doing these days — there were plenty of moments after the Chicago Sky(at Washington Mystics, Sunday, 3 p.m. ET, ABC) won the WNBA Championship last fall when she considered retiring....
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
This week’s announcement of the U.S. Soccer Federation’s landmark agreement to offer equal pay to the women’s and men’s national soccer teams – including sharing in World Cup prize money – came at the perfect time ahead of the National Soccer Hall of Fame’s Class of...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
On this episode of Bloomberg’s “How I Got Here with Chris Paul,” Phoenix Mercury point guard Skylar Diggins-Smith joins Chris Paul on a visit to a Boys & Girls Club to talk basketball, life as a working mom and how Jay-Z helped make her a superstar. Read...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Elaine Thompson-Herah, the Olympic 100m and 200m champion, withdrew before what would have been her Diamond League season debut on Saturday after discomfort in training. Thompson-Herah pulled out of the meet in Birmingham, Great Britain (broadcast info here), out of...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Allyson Felix has been tapped as an ambassador for Omega. On Thursday, the five-time track and field Olympian was named an ambassador for the Swiss luxury watch company. Felix joins a growing family of athletes who are also Omega ambassadors, including other Olympians...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
When the first college athlete died by suicide this year, Kate Intile thought of the time her own sport had left her in months of darkness. After she was cut from a storied college running program, “I wasn’t able to find any worth in myself,” she said. “I’ve never...
by admin | May 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Members of the Albany High School girls’ track and field team in upstate New York received a suspension after promoting a petition to wear sports bras instead of shirts during practice, according to the Times Union. Albany School District Athletic Director Ashley...
by admin | May 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Michigan State fifth-year senior Jenna Magness was named the Women’s Track Athlete of the Big Ten Championships, the conference announced on Wednesday. Magness became the first Big Ten women’s track athlete to win both the 5,000-meter (5,000m) and 10,000-meter...
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