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Las Vegas Aces sell out of 2024 season tickets and make WNBA history

by admin | Mar 12, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW

The Las Vegas Aces keep doing unprecedented things. Season tickets to see the back-to-back WNBA champions in 2024 are completely sold out, making them the first team to ever accomplish the feat in the league’s 28-year history, the Aces announced on Tuesday. The...

Caitlin Clark is 1 of 1: ‘We’ve never seen a woman play like this’

by admin | Mar 7, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW

Caitlin Clark is the best offensive player we’ve seen in women’s college basketball in at least the past three decades. Her points total, while massive and now unmatched, only tells part of the story. While we’ve seen incredible scorers —...

Arizona hires Desireé Reed-Francois as new AD amid budget woes

by admin | Feb 22, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW

Desiree Reed-Francois is set to become Arizona’s next athletics director, the university announced Monday, a job that will include ushering the Wildcatsinto the Big 12, as well as helping lift them out of a financial crisis. She will replace Dave Heeke, who parted...

With a spring training call-up, a female umpire inches closer to history

by admin | Feb 14, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW

Jen Pawol is on the verge of the unprecedented, though that was never her plan. She did not become an umpire for the fame. She never did this for attention. But minor league season after minor league season, correct call after correct call, promotion after promotion,...

Angel City FC exec Jess Smith to head Warriors’ WNBA team

by admin | Feb 1, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW

The Golden State Warriors have plucked Jess Smith, the head of revenue for the Angel City Football Club, to be the president of their new WNBA franchise. It’s the first move by the team since the league announced it was expanding to the Bay Area back in July. Smith,...

Baylor to honor Brittney Griner by retiring her No. 42 jersey

by admin | Feb 1, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW

Brittney Griner’s No. 42 jersey will be retired by Baylor when the Bears host Texas Tech on Feb. 18 at the recently opened Foster Pavilion in Waco, Texas. The Phoenix Mercury star, the No. 1 pick in the 2013 WNBA draft, twice led Baylor to the Final Four during...

Meet Abbey Levy, rising Jewish star in the brand new Professional Women’s Hockey League

by admin | Jan 29, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW

One of Abigail Levy’s most powerful Jewish memories comes from a family Passover celebration when she was a child. In keeping with the tradition of searching for the afikomen, someone hid a broken piece of matzah and set her and the other children loose to find it....

Basketball Legend Sue Bird on the Power of Sharing Her Career Highlights and Coming Out Story in Sundance Doc ‘In the Clutch’

by admin | Jan 25, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW

When basketball legend Sue Bird decided to let a team of filmmakers capture her final season after playing 21 years in the WNBA, she wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from watching her career be contextualized on film, but it turned out to be wonderful. “You play...

Tara VanDerveer passes Mike Krzyzewski to become the winningest college-basketball coach ever

by admin | Jan 24, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW

One of Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer’s favorite analogies is that good basketball teams are like an orchestra. Everyone keeps the beat alive while a different soloist shines each night. It was the conductor’s turn to stand in the spotlight again and take a bow,...

Future USWNT coach Emma Hayes expecting emotional Chelsea departure

by admin | Jan 24, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW

Emma Hayes is expecting her departure from Chelsea to be an emotional one. Hayes is set to take over the U.S. women’s national team at the end of the Women’s Super League season. And while she’s excited to take on her new role, she’s sad to be leaving the club that...
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