by admin | Sep 5, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Serena Williams, considered by many to be the greatest women’s tennis player ever, is also the GOAT on Twitter among female athletes. Williams was defeated by Ajla Tomlijanovic of Australia during their women’s singles third-round match Friday at the 2022 U.S. Open....
by admin | Sep 5, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
South Carolina and women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley have canceled a home-and-home series with BYU over a recent racial incident where a Cougars fan yelled slurs at a Duke volleyball player. The Gamecocks were scheduled to start the season at home against BYU...
by admin | Aug 31, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
As Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss sits at team headquarters in El Segundo, California, with multiple Larry O’Brien trophies in the backdrop, she is fully aware that, as one of the few women in the sports industry running a franchise, every move she makes —...
by admin | Aug 31, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
You don’t reach the top of your sport without standing on the shoulders of those who came before you. As the tennis world starts to gather in New York for the U.S. Open, the final major tournament of the season, most of the media attention is focused on Serena...
by admin | Aug 29, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Serena Williams’s retirement announcement in Vogue contained a telling line about the motivation behind her playing career. She explains that, for her, turning negativity into winning has been a driving force. “I’ve built a career on channeling anger and negativity...
by admin | Aug 29, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The Las Vegas Aces’ Becky Hammon was named 2022 WNBA Coach of the Year, the league announced Friday, making her the first former WNBA player to win the award in her debut season as head coach. Hammon earned 27 of 56 votes from a panel of sports media members,...
by admin | Aug 25, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The greatest player in the history of women’s tennis will probably take her final bow at the United States Open next week. Serena Williams’s status as the best ever is rock solid. I know that Margaret Court won 24 major singles titles and that Williams has won only 23...
by admin | Aug 25, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
In January 2019, Glenn Gilliam filed an application to have a street in Harlem named after Althea Gibson. That was the easy part. The challenge that followed was convincing 60% of the residents and 60% of the business owners to sign his petition to move the process...
by admin | Aug 24, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Serena Williams – statistically the greatest tennis player of her era – is expected to call time on her illustrious career at the upcoming US Open. Williams has won 23 grand slam singles titles and has twice held all four majors at the same time. Read...
by admin | Aug 23, 2022 | Leadership, Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
When the U.S. women’s national soccer team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit in early March 2019, few thought it’d play out with a $24 million settlement almost three full years later (more than $40 million less than what was originally requested)....
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