by admin | Mar 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
23-year old Katie Ledecky has been using a backyard pool to keep training during the pandemic. Usually she trains at Stanford. The five-time Olympic gold medalist had to depend on neighbors, and generosity, just as everyone else has for the last year. Read More
by admin | Mar 11, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
United States women’s national soccer team star Mia Hamm is joining the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Hamm is one of nine women chosen as the class of 2021, announced Monday on International Women’s Day. She joins a select few athletes as part of...
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A few years after competing in synchronized swimming at the 2012 London Olympics, Szofi Kiss of Hungary began working with a coach from Russia, whom she would identify only by her first name as Natalia. The coach, Kiss said, separated some members of her training...
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Megan Anderson will need a new fighting home. The former featherweight title contender is no longer under contract with the UFC after completing her deal following a loss to Amanda Nunes this past weekend. UFC officials confirmed Anderson completed her...
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
US Women’s National Team players have long been waging a battle against the US Soccer Federation in pursuit of fair compensation. And now, their high-profile fight is headed to Congress. Read More
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
What’s it like to make history and have everyone forget about it immediately? Wyomia Tyus knows. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Tyus became the first person in history — man or woman — to win two consecutive gold medals in the 100-meter dash. It...
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Emily Ford made history earlier this week, as the first woman and only the second person ever to hike Wisconsin’s 1,900km Ice Age Trail in winter. She and her canine pal (a borrowed sled dog named Diggins), hiked through temperatures ranging from 7˚C through to -37˚C,...
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Famer and former Olympian John Zimmerman was suspended from the sport after allegations that he covered up the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old female skater that he coached, according to USA Today’s Christine Brennan. Zimmerman was...
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Chloe Kim headlines the world freestyle skiing and snowboarding championships, among several winter sports competitions on NBC Sports, Olympic Channel and Peacock Premium this week. Kim, who in PyeongChang became the youngest Olympic halfpipe champion...
by admin | Mar 9, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
Megan Rapinoe did not plan to propose to Sue Bird by the pool on a lazy afternoon in Antigua last fall, but Megan Rapinoe is not a big planner. She tends to do things in the moment, when they feel right. One of the defining plays of her decade-long international...
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