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Swiss skier Jasmine Flury wins downhill gold as favorites falter

by admin | Feb 13, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Swiss skier Jasmine Flury won gold in the women’s downhill at the world championships Saturday on a rough day for the pre-race favorites. Flury edged Austrian skier Nina Ortlieb by 0.04 seconds for her first career medal at major championships. Read...

February 6 – February 12, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights

by admin | Feb 12, 2023 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights

👍 This week our highlight goes to Candace Parker who will be the first woman to call the NBA All-Star Game. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down to the Olympic Committee who still hasn’t awarded medals in the team ice skating event.

Women’s NCAA tournament selection reveal: South Carolina easy pick for No. 1 overall seed, followed by Indiana, UConn, Stanford

by admin | Feb 10, 2023 | Representation, SEW

South Carolina needed no discussion as the overall No. 1 seed in the women’s NCAA selection committee’s first of two top-16 reveals as announced on ESPN on Thursday night. The Gamecocks (24-0, 11-0 SEC) are reigning champions and in line to become only the...

Mikaela Shiffrin Wins World Championship Medal, Cites LeBron James as Inspiration

by admin | Feb 9, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Amid a whirlwind 48 hours high in the French Alps, Mikaela Shiffrin woke up to the news that LeBron James had broken the NBA scoring record and the American skier immediately drew comparisons to her own record-breaking season. Inspired by James’ accomplishment,...

Elena Fanchini, medal-winning Alpine skier, dies at 37

by admin | Feb 9, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Elena Fanchini, an Italian Alpine skier whose career was cut short by a tumor, has died. She was 37. Fanchini, the 2005 World downhill silver medalist at age 19, passed away Wednesday at her home in Solato, near Brescia, the Italian Winter Sports Federation announced....

NWSL finally announces 2023 schedule

by admin | Feb 9, 2023 | Representation, SEW

The 2023 NWSL schedule is finally here. NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman addressed the absence of the league’s 2023 calendar, admitting it ‘took too long’ to be released. Read More

Mikaela Shiffrin ties world Alpine skiing championships medals record

by admin | Feb 8, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Mikaela Shiffrin took silver behind Italian Marta Bassino in the super-G for her 12th world Alpine skiing championships medal, tying the modern individual record. Bassino edged Shiffrin by 11 hundredths of a second in Meribel, France, for her second world title after...

Candace Parker makes history as first woman to call NBA All-Star Game: ‘I have to pinch myself’

by admin | Feb 8, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Only two months into 2023, Candace Parker has managed to shake up the basketball world twice. In the WNBA star’s latest move, Parker will make her NBA All-Star Game analyst debut as the first woman to call the event. Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green and...

One year later, still no medals in disputed Beijing 2022 Olympic team skating event

by admin | Feb 8, 2023 | Representation, SEW

It’s a not-so-happy Olympic anniversary this week. A year ago, Russia won the team figure skating event at the Beijing Winter Games, powered by teenage phenom Kamila Valieva. But her subsequent positive drug testmarred the Games and left the team results in...

Svetlana Romashina, seven-time Olympic champion artistic swimmer, retires

by admin | Feb 7, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Russian Svetlana Romashina, the most decorated artistic swimmer in Olympic history with seven gold medals, announced her retirement at age 33. Romashina entered seven Olympic artistic swimming events and won all of them, starting in 2008. She won four Olympic titles...
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