by admin | Jun 7, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Plenette Pierson is returning to Texas Tech to be an assistant coach at her alma mater after spending most of the past 20 years in the WNBA, where she played on three championship teams. Texas Tech said Monday that Pierson, an assistant for the Minnesota Lynx for...
by admin | Jun 7, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Why is there room at the top for only one women’s sport? Iga Swiatek won her second French Open title on Saturday, extending her winning streak to 35 matches by rolling past the Coco Gauff, 6-1, 6-3. Read More
by admin | Jun 6, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Afew hours after Iga Swiatek consolidated her dominance with a second French Open title while blazing to a 35th consecutive win in the run that never ends the exhausted champion from Poland, speaking from the corner of a tiny room, kicked her leg up over the handle of...
by admin | Jun 2, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
A’ja Wilson had 24 points and 14 rebounds, Jackie Young scored 21 points and the Las Vegas Aces beat the Connecticut Sun 89-81 on Tuesday night in a battle of the top teams in each WNBA conference. Under head coach Becky Hammon, Las Vegas (9-1) won its seventh...
by admin | May 31, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Naomi Osaka is one of tennis’s hardest hitters, with a powerful serve that topped 125mph at the 2016 US Open. It’s a swiftness and strength that, two years later, won her the first of four Grand Slam championships, beating her idol Serena Williams at just 19 years of...
by admin | May 30, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Becky Hammon is quickly showing that she’s the type of head coach she promised she’d be: a damn good one. In just a few weeks at the helm, the former San Antonio Spurs assistant has lifted the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces from a top contender to the team to...
by admin | May 26, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Teri McKeever, the first woman to serve as a U.S. Olympic swimming head coach, was put on paid administrative leave by Cal Berkeley amid an investigation into a report that 20 current or former Cal swimmers said McKeever verbally and emotionally bullied her swimmers....
by admin | May 26, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Marianne Stanley has been dismissed as head coach of the Indiana Fever, the team announced Wednesday. Assistant coach Carlos Knox will take over as interim coach for the rest of the season. Read More
by admin | May 25, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The Minnesota Lynx has released the dates for the jersey retirement ceremonies of Seimone Augustus and Rebekkah Brunson. Augustus will have her No. 33 on May 29 while Brunson’s No. 32 will be retired on July 3. There jerseys will be the second and third numbers that...
by admin | May 25, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
With three-time Olympic medalist Jessie Diggins leading the way, the U.S. women’s cross-country team has made major strides in recent years. But outside of the athletes competing, the world of cross-country skiing remains something of a boys’ club. Read...
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