by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
BEFORE HER TEAM’S rotation on balance beam at their final home meet of the regular season, University of Arkansas head coach Jordyn Wieber gathers her gymnasts for a huddle. She asks them to take a collective deep breath, calm their energy and focus on the start...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
After years of being passed over, in November Ng became the first woman to be named GM of a North American professional men’s team. Landing the Marlins job was a breakthrough, but Ng knows that to keep it—and help others like her follow—she’ll have to win. Read...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
What film ranked number one? It’s all about the women in “A League of Their Own”. Read More
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When Sedona Prince, a center on the University of Oregon women’s basketball team, shared a TikTok from the NCAA women’s basketball tournament earlier this month, it went viral. Her video compared the women’s weight room in San Antonio—a single small rack of dumbbells...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The umpires in baseball are often taken for granted, like the field geometry, the bases, the fair poles and the seats in the stands. Except for those moments when a decision angers one team or the other, umpires are part of the background to the game. Perhaps that...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Pedro Araujo, the Orlando Pride’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, admits he didn’t come into the team’s initiative to launch its new Ad Astra — literally, “to the stars” — jersey with much spacecraft experience. “Yeah, I definitely learned a lot, for...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW, Uncategorized
The year was 1932. The country was enduring the gravest crisis in American History, the Great Depression, yet during that heartache; the Olympics would offer an escape and the world would be introduced to Babe Didrikson. Or later known as Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Read...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Top coaches in women’s college basketball pressed N.C.A.A. executives directly on Wednesday over what they have judged as chronic failures to promote and support the sport — longstanding tensions that have now ignited a public furor over disparities between this...
by admin | Mar 31, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
This year’s March Madness might have exposed gaps in gender equity in college sports, but for two Black women, the 2021 NCAA women’s tournament will always represent a moment when history was made. For the first time in NCAA women’s tournament...
by admin | Mar 31, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The world got its first extended look at Charli Collier this month during the NCAA Women’s Tournament, but WNBA teams have had eyes on her for a while now. Collier, a 22-year-old junior who will graduate this spring and enter the WNBA draft, saw her tourney run...
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