by admin | May 9, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Becky Hammon’s WNBA head coaching debut couldn’t have gone much better as the Las Vegas Aces earned a 106-88 road win over the Phoenix Mercury on Friday. After the game, Hammon spoke with reporters about the “most special thing” regarding the...
by admin | May 9, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Before 1972, girls and women who played sports had little expectation of gender equity. Most weren’t allowed to cross the half-court line in basketball. They made their own clothes and ran in makeshift shoes. They fought their administrations for access to...
by admin | May 9, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The Sandy Brondello era in Brooklyn started off on a high note, as the New York Liberty took down the Connecticut Sun 81-79 Saturday in the team’s season opener behind third-year guard Sabrina Ionescu’s 25 points. “It’s a great win for us at...
by admin | May 9, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Dearica Hamby scored 24 points and the Las Vegas Aces won in Becky Hammon’s first game as coach, beating the short-handed Phoenix Mercury 106–88 on Friday night to open the WNBA season. Phoenix was without Brittney Griner as she nears the three-month mark of her...
by admin | May 6, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Progress, the saying goes, does not occur on a straight line. When Becky Hammon was hired as the first full-time female assistant in the NBA, the first woman to be a full-time assistant in any of the major North American men’s professional leagues, it was a sea change...
by admin | May 6, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Before her retirement from coaching in March, Texas Southern women’s basketball coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke was accused of demeaning and abusive behavior by multiple players, according to Chantel Jennings and Dana O’Neil of The Athletic. A Title IX...
by admin | May 5, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Two days after Politico disclosed a draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion that would reverse the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision allowing abortion rights, several high-profile female athletes spoke out against the proposed change. On Wednesday, the WNBA released a statement...
by admin | May 4, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The list of Lisa Leslie’s accomplishments is long: WNBA Hall of Famer, a four-time Olympic gold medal winner, and among one of the first Black female athletes to receive her own shoe with Nike. A new success she can add to her lineup is being a multimillion-dollar...
by admin | May 3, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Sue Bird aims to please. That can mean hitting a teammate in a preferred spot with a pass, crisply delivered. That can mean satisfying as many colleagues as possible when playing the equivalent of point guard for the WNBA Players Association. That can mean...
by admin | May 3, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
What would you do if you were not afraid? Serena Williams once said, “I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.” As one of the greatest athletes ever – not female athlete, but athlete, period – Williams has continued to...
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