by admin | Apr 13, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Even the slow days can go blurry for Sanya Richards-Ross. Last month she went through such pains to plan this interview for a weekday afternoon, when she wasn’t honing in on an elite track meet in some far-flung locale for her TV analyst job at NBC. But then hours...
by admin | Apr 11, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Cheered by many fans who came just to see her make history, Rachel Balkovec debuted with a win Friday night as the first woman to manage the affiliate of a Major League Baseball team. Balkovec guided the New York Yankees’ Class A Tampa Tarpons over Lakeland 9-6. Read...
by admin | Apr 11, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Cheered by many fans who came just to see her make history, Rachel Balkovec debuted with a win Friday night as the first woman to manage the affiliate of a Major League Baseball team. Balkovec guided the New York Yankees’ Class A Tampa Tarpons over Lakeland 9-6....
by admin | Apr 8, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
RACHEL BALKOVEC WAS home recovering from getting hit in the face with a baseball late last month, and her dad was at Target buying a chair. He had to sit somewhere. Thirty-four years of life, and Balkovec has no furniture. She recently bought a condo, which to those...
by admin | Apr 6, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Harvard’s women’s basketball program is set to begin a new era. On Tuesday, the school announced the hiring of Carrie Moore as head coach, making her just the second person to hold that post in the past four decades. She replaces Kathy Delaney-Smith, who...
by admin | Apr 5, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Serena Williams is a lot of things. She is not only one of the best tennis players ever. But also a mother, a wife, as well as a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and investor. She founded her venture capital firm, Serena Ventures. And has been passionate about investing...
by admin | Apr 5, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
That Skylar Diggins-Smith has managed to keep her private life so, well, private, is a social media miracle. The WNBA veteran has been a hot topic for almost two decades, with fans admiring her level of play, leadership and looks—which she chalks up as just being part...
by admin | Apr 4, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley won the program’s second national championship on Sunday night after the Gamecocks knocked off UConn 64–49. After cutting down the nets for the second time in the last five years, Staley said she’s going to continue...
by admin | Apr 4, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Never tell Natasha Cloud to take politics out of her sports. There are few professional athletes – male or female – who can compare to the amount of awareness Cloud has given to important causes in her community and specifically social justice. And once...
by admin | Apr 4, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Playfully wearing a Tampa Bay Buccaneers football helmet, New York Yankees minor league manager Rachel Balkovec was back on the field Saturday. Balkovec, hired as the first woman to manage a minor league affiliate of a major league team, was hit in the face by a...
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