by admin | Jan 20, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
South Carolina coach Dawn Staley will be part of the selection committee for the U.S. women’s basketball team for upcoming competitions this year, including the FIBA World Cup in September. Staley, coach of the national team for the last Olympic cycle, led the...
by admin | Jan 19, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Michelle Akers’ resume as a player is impeccable. Widely considered to be among the greatest players in the history of U.S. Soccer, she has done it all — won a Hermann Trophy, multiple World Cups, an Olympic gold medal and was elected to the National Soccer Hall of...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
For those of us who could give less than a shit about Novak Djokovic’s refusal to get vaccinated, and subsequent expulsion from the land of koalas and kangaroos, there are far more important things to discuss—like Naomi Osaka kicking ass and taking names at the...
by admin | Jan 17, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Last year for Martin Luther King Jr Day, I interviewed a group of WNBA players along with Eric Garner’s daughter, Emerald. We spoke about their campaign to unseat Republican Kelly Loeffler, who had been part of the leadership group of the Atlanta Dream, from the US...
by admin | Jan 17, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
It is early Thursday afternoon and the Memorial Gym court at Vanderbilt is full of orange. The Tennessee Lady Volunteers are going through their shoot-around for the game that night, and off to the side, their coach is trying to describe her world. This little tidbit...
by admin | Jan 11, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Rachel Balkovec, a groundbreaking baseball coach, will become the manager of a team in the Yankees’ minor league system, making her the first woman to lead an affiliated professional baseball squad. Balkovec, 34, will manage the Tampa Tarpons, the low Class A...
by admin | Jan 11, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
While some media members have discussed how disappointing it is that Becky Hammon won’t break the NBA’s thick head coaching glass ceiling, Hammon has been a part of a group that’s breaking down other barriers in the WNBA—a league that has also...
by admin | Jan 10, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
News of the hiring of Victor Lapena yesterday as the head coach of Canada’s senior women’s basketball team was a long time coming – the qualification tournament for this year’s World Cup is about a month away and that’ s not a lot of prep time for any coach let alone...
by admin | Jan 10, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Kim Wyant’s life in soccer has spanned multiple decades. Her accomplishments span from a spot on the first United States women’s national soccer team in 1985, to becoming the first and only woman head coach of a college men’s soccer team, leading NYU to an NCAA...
by admin | Jan 6, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
After surviving World War II as a girl in Scotland, sometimes zipped into a one-piece garment called a siren suit and hastened into a bomb shelter built by her father, Christine Grant took up sports. From that point, she often said, she could not imagine her life...
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