by admin | Apr 17, 2022 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to Alyssa Nakken of the SF Giants who became the first woman to coach on the field in an in season MLB game. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week once again to Russia who still has not released the WNBA’s...
by admin | Apr 15, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Training camps for the 2022 WNBA season begin Sunday, but dozens of players likely won’t be on hand when camps open. It’s an early start for a season that is compacted because the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup begins Sept. 21 in Australia. And...
by admin | Apr 15, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Freshman Saniya Rivers will transfer from the South Carolina women’s basketball team, she said Thursday on social media. Rivers is the third transfer out of Columbia — Eniya Russell and Elysa Wesolek also have said they are leaving — since the...
by admin | Apr 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Perhaps the most talked-about Olympian this year would be Kamila Valieva. The Russian figure skater who was deprived of her medal after testing positive for a doping test is actually one of the most talented figure skaters out there. Valieva began her sports journey...
by admin | Apr 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Allyson Felix, the most decorated female track and field Olympian of all time, will retire at the end of the season. The 36-year-old American has won 11 Olympic medals, including seven golds, as well as 13 world titles. She competed at her fifth and final Olympics in...
by admin | Apr 14, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Basketball star Brittney Griner has been detained in Russia since February, when vape cartridges containing hashish oil were allegedly found in her luggage. “The reality is, she’s over there because of a gender issue — pay inequity,” said Nneka...
by admin | Apr 13, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Alyssa Nakken was hard at work in the batting cage, just a few steps from the dugout, when suddenly the call came: The San Francisco Giants needed her to coach at first base. She quickly pulled off her sweatshirt, grabbed her No. 92 jersey and found a bright orange...
by admin | Apr 13, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The OL Reign star is the latest guest on ‘All of US: The U.S. Women’s Soccer Show’ U.S. women’s national team defender Alana Cook says her decision to play for the country of her birth is one she knew “would never be something I regretted”. The 25-year-old...
by admin | Apr 13, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Rose Lavelle and Catarina Macario each scored a pair of first-half goals, and the U.S. women’s national team crushed Uzbekistan, 9-0, on Tuesday to extend the team’s unbeaten streak to 67 games on American soil. Orange County product Trinity Rodman, who came in as a...
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...
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