by admin | Sep 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The first round of results from the WSL season is evidence of this as newly promoted Liverpool stunned champions Chelsea, while Aston Villa put four pastreigning League Cup holders Man City. It’s a competition that has attracted many of the top players in the world,...
by admin | Sep 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Las Vegas Aces earned the 2022 WNBA championship trophy, becoming the first major league sports team to bring a title to the city. Forty-eight hours later, players, staff and fans celebrated accordingly. Gov. Steve Sisolak made it extra official by proclaiming...
by admin | Sep 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Serena Williams may be a tennis legend, but she’s also obsessed with design. As a Nike-sponsored athlete since 2003, she has collaborated with the brand to design clothes and sneakers for two decades. And this has shown her just how underrepresented Black designers...
by admin | Sep 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
When Daphne Koster was a young girl, she dreamed a dream that “was not real”. She dreamed of playing for Ajax. She has fond memories of watching the men’s team win the Champions League in 1995 – with that star-studded side of Clarence Seedorf, Marc Overmars and Frank...
by admin | Sep 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Naomi Osaka, playing her first match since the US Open, advanced to the second round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open when Australia’s Daria Saville retired with a knee injury in the second game of their evening encounter on Tuesday. The unseeded Osaka is the...
by admin | Sep 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
2022 WNBA champions A’ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray and Kelsey Plum of the Las Vegas Aces, plus 2020 WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart of the Seattle Storm, headline USA Basketball’s 12-person roster for the upcoming FIBA World Cup, where the U.S. is seeking to win its...
by admin | Sep 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Which WNBA teams have the best outlook over the next three seasons? We’ve answered the NBA version of that question with our Future Power Rankings, which evaluate teams on the basis of five categories — players, management, cap space, market and draft...
by admin | Sep 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
One of the most intriguing offseasons in WNBA history effectively began when the Las Vegas Aces closed out the Finals with Sunday’s victory over the Connecticut Sun. While free agency doesn’t officially begin until January, there’s a new wrinkle ahead: prioritization....
by admin | Sep 19, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The doubters have come at Becky Hammon for as long as she can remember. They said the 5-foot-6 guard from Rapid City, South Dakota, was too short and too slow to be a Division I college basketball star. That she couldn’t play in the WNBA. She wouldn’t...
by admin | Sep 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Ellen van Dijk defended her title and claimed a third women’s time trial gold medal at the opening event of the world road cycling championships on Sunday. Taking advantage of a technical course at the coastal town of Wollongong, south of Sydney, van Dijk maintained a...
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