by admin | May 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Eighth-seeded Ons Jabeur comfortably defeated qualifier Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-2, 6-3 in just over an hour Thursday to advance to the final of the Madrid Open. The 10th-ranked Jabeur, the only top-10 player left in the women’s draw, had lost five of her six...
by admin | May 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
After former WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne debuted the Nike Zoom UNVRS in 2019, the Washington Mystics star has quietly previewed another upcoming basketball shoe from the Swoosh. In last week’s pre-season matchup between the Mystics and the Minnesota Lynx, Delle Donne...
by admin | May 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In her struggle for freedom from detention in Russia, WNBA star Brittney Griner now has another big name in her corner: former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson. A spokesperson for the Richardson Center confirmed to ABC News that the international hostage...
by admin | May 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Sky coach/GM James Wade officially ruled Allie Quigley out for the season opener Friday against the Los Angeles Sparks. Quigley has been limited in practice and said there isn’t anything specific keeping her out of the game, just a feeling of not being 100%. Read...
by admin | May 6, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Before her retirement from coaching in March, Texas Southern women’s basketball coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke was accused of demeaning and abusive behavior by multiple players, according to Chantel Jennings and Dana O’Neil of The Athletic. A Title IX...
by admin | May 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Some years ago, a middle-schooler was kicking the ball around at halftime of her brother’s soccer game in Green Bay, Wisconsin. A coach approached the girl’s parents and asked what team she played for. The girl was Elyse Bennett, who would one day be drafted as the...
by admin | May 5, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Venus Williams, whom I interviewed as one of our six Power of Women New York honorees, clearly has broken barriers. And she has great admiration for other women who have done the same in their respective realms. As for her biggest role models, Williams says she really...
by admin | May 5, 2022 | Representation, SEW
She concedes she “was listening too much to outside noise”, but Coco Gauff is finally starting to feel a bit more at ease and doing things her way. Gauff made the tennis world sit up and take note of her talent when she became the youngest player to reach the main...
by admin | May 5, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Los Angeles Sparks head into the 2022 season with a roster full of players who competed on the game’s biggest stages. While the players have noteworthy backgrounds, the focus is merging their talents into cohesive gameplay. “Our expectations are to establish a...
by admin | May 5, 2022 | Representation, SEW
As Los Angeles Sparks star forward Nneka Ogwumike assessed the steps she needed to take to meet her offseason goals in late 2021, the first that came to mind were rest and recovery. Coming off a serious knee injury in early June 2021, Ogwumike worked on getting back...
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