by admin | May 23, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Carina Vogt, who in 2014 won the first Olympic women’s ski jumping competition, announced her retirement on Friday, according to the German Ski Association. Vogt, 30, reportedly said injuries over the last two years took away her confidence and risk-taking, leaving...
by admin | May 22, 2022 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to the NWST for achieving pay equity with the men’s national team. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to the NCAA who need to address the crisis of recent suicides by college athletes.
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Two months after adding two more Olympic medals to her resume, U.S. cross-country star Jessie Diggins took her hardware to Capitol Hill, where she was among several winter Olympians to lobby members of Congress to act on climate change. “Winning a gold medal for me...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Fifteen years before Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur became the first Arab or African woman to win a top-flight tennis title, her adolescent sparring partner could see she was destined for glory even if he suffered a broken arm in the process. Read More
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Emma Raducanu declared herself fit for the French Open after concerns over a back problem. The US Open champion retired during the second set of her opening match at the Italian Open in Rome last week against Bianca Andreescu, saying she was unable to move properly....
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The push for equal gender pay in sports got a shot in the arm this week when the U.S. Soccer Federation announced that players for the men’s and women’s national teams would get equal compensation. Yet while the U.S. soccer teams have achieved parity,...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
She was an original in every way. She helped pave the way and in the end she had seen and done it all. WNBA legend Sheryl Swoopes has an army of accolades that most can only dream of attaining. Beginning with her college days at Texas Tech in which she was a First...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Leadership, Representation
If she’s being honest — something Candace Parker makes a point of doing these days — there were plenty of moments after the Chicago Sky(at Washington Mystics, Sunday, 3 p.m. ET, ABC) won the WNBA Championship last fall when she considered retiring....
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
This week’s announcement of the U.S. Soccer Federation’s landmark agreement to offer equal pay to the women’s and men’s national soccer teams – including sharing in World Cup prize money – came at the perfect time ahead of the National Soccer Hall of Fame’s Class of...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
On this episode of Bloomberg’s “How I Got Here with Chris Paul,” Phoenix Mercury point guard Skylar Diggins-Smith joins Chris Paul on a visit to a Boys & Girls Club to talk basketball, life as a working mom and how Jay-Z helped make her a superstar. Read...
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