by admin | Dec 5, 2024 | Representation, SEW
On the court, they seem like any other college women’s volleyball team. At a recent game, the players moved around the court in staccato rhythm, setting and spiking the ball, springing into the air like pogo sticks to block attacking shots, all in their blue and gold...
by admin | Nov 21, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma passed Tara VanDerveer as college basketball’s all-time winningest coach with the Huskies’ win over Fairleigh Dickinson on Wednesday night in Storrs. Auriemma earned his 1,217th win. The Huskies’ depth, a rarity the past...
by admin | Nov 18, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Five years ago, Lindsey Vonn retired from ski racing, largely because her aching right knee, damaged by high speed crashes and multiple surgeries, could no longer take the stress of the sport. “My career ended with no intention of coming back,” Vonn, the winner of...
by admin | Oct 21, 2024 | Representation, SEW
As confetti fell and Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” blared through the arena, the New York Liberty celebrated the end of a long odyssey. The team that always fell short, starting from their days in Madison Square Garden, through detours to Radio City Music Hall...
by admin | Oct 10, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Susie Maxwell Berning, a three-time champion of the United States Women’s Open golf tournament who was known for her tenacity on the fairway and her grace off it, died on Wednesday at her home in Indio, in Southern California. She was 83. Her daughter Cindy Molchany...
by admin | Oct 7, 2024 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
Once a dominant figure in girls’ and women’s soccer, Rory Dames in recent years has become a symbol of an abusive culture and dysfunctional regulatory system within both pro and youth sports. Articles in The Washington Post detailed former athletes’ allegations of...
by admin | Oct 7, 2024 | Representation, SEW
One day last week, with her team, the Connecticut Sun, in a first-round playoff series against WNBA star Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever, guard DiJonai Carrington was surrounded by a group of reporters. Carrington had swatted Clark in the face while reaching for the...
by admin | Sep 4, 2024 | Representation, SEW
A new report from FIFA has said that $6.8 million was spent on women’s international transfers in the mid-year window from June 1 to Sept. 1 2024, almost double what was spent during the same period in 2023. Internationally, 1,125 transfers were registered in...
by admin | Sep 4, 2024 | Representation, SEW
A Ugandan athlete living in Kenya was attacked and set on fire by her boyfriend and is receiving treatment for burns on 75% of her body, police said. Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who finished at the 44th position in the 2024 Paris Olympics, was attacked in her...
by admin | Sep 3, 2024 | Representation, SEW
It’s Monday, and another week of NWSL action is in the books, which means it’s time for ESPN’s Power Rankings. Our rankings are derived from a combination of key season statistics (points per game, goal differential, expected goal differential),...
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